Chapter 12 "Misunderstandings and Revelations"

"Fox there's something I have to tell you, something really important," she murmured staring at him intently and praying for his understanding

Fox stares at Teresa, his head spinning. "What the hell have I done? I just slept with my brother's wife. Damn, how stupid could I be?" he asked himself.

Teresa waited for a reaction from Fox and when he didn't reply she began to feel self-conscious. Wrapping the sheet around her slender body, she rose from the bed and then slipped her robe on. Tying the belt securely she turned to face Fox once more

"Fox, I," Teresa began again, determined to confess everything to Fox but he forestalled her once again

"If you're going to tell me that you regret what happened and that it can't happen again save your breath. I couldn't agree more," Fox replied. "You were quite good, babe, better than I expected actually. I can see why Ethan was loath to divorce you despite your constant unfaithfulness. But I'm not my brother and I don't share. So thanks for the quickie babe," he added as he sauntered to the door.

Teresa stared at him with wide, shocked eyes. Despite their constant bickering and the low impression he had of her she hadn't expected him to be so cruel.

"You son of a bitch," she yelled furiously, grabbing the first item at hand, a small brass lamp, and heaving it at his head. Fox ducked in time to avoid having his head split open.

"I'm not a ten-cent whore you can use and discard at your convenience and I won't let you demean me when you don't know the first thing about my marriage," she added, her dark eyes flashing and her breathing uneven.

Feeling her stomach muscles tense and a wave of dizziness wash over her Teresa fell to her knees. Fox rushed over to where a pale Teresa lay on the carpeted floor.

"Don't touch me," she gritted but then the pain became overwhelming and she clung to him like a child. "Fox, it hurts, hurts so much" she murmured.

"It's going to be alright, Teresa," he soothed though he knew no such thing. Her nightie was soaked through and the carpet was seeped in blood.

"My baby, I'm going to lose my baby," she cried and Fox felt his own eyes tear at the agony he saw on her face. The baby was the last thing on his mind, all he could see was Teresa.

"I can't lose anyone else I love," he thought, his heart stopping when he realized what he'd just admitted.

"I'm in love with her. How could I have been so foolish as to not see it before?" he wondered.

"It's going to be alright, Resa, you and the baby will be alright," he promised but Teresa's eyes had fluttered close.

"What the hell is going on here?" a concerned Julian asked as he walked into the room. He had heard shouts and the sound of glass breaking and had come running to see what was wrong.

"Call an ambulance Father, I think she's suffering a miscarriage," Fox told Julian grimly.

Julian's face paled and his eyes widened in surprise but he did as Fox asked.

Harmony Hospital

"Eve, how is she, how is my Teresa?" a frantic Pilar asked Eve as the other woman strolled into the waiting room.

A sea of faces waited for Eve to reply. Fox had called Pilar and Martin and the news had spread from there. Luis, Sheridan, Miguel, Paloma, Leslie, Dylan, Julian, Ivy, and Fox all waited tensely for Eve to make her diagnosis.

"She's fine. I'd like to keep her in observation overnight and once she gets home she should rest and try not to overdo it. She isn't in the best emotional health right now and she is a bit anemic but other than that everything is fine. The baby is perfectly healthy," Eve reassured Teresa's anxious family and friends.

"Bendito sea Dios, thank God that my baby is alright," Pilar whispered to her husband but then the rest of Eve's statement sank in. "Eve you said that baby was alright but my Teresa isn't pregnant," she replied with a puzzled frown.

Eve stared at Pilar noticing the surprise on her face. Looking around the room she noticed the same expression on everyone's face.

"Teresa is six weeks pregnant, Pilar. I thought you all knew. Fox told the EMT's that she started cramping and that she was bleeding profusely. We thought she might have miscarried," Eve explained.

Twenty pairs of eyes turned to stare incredulously at Fox but he had already walked away. Muttering an oath, Julian ran his hand through his thinning hair and followed his son. He was going to get to the bottom of this and he had a feeling Fox knew a lot more than he was letting on.

He found Fox sitting at a nearby bench, a cold cup of coffee cradled in one hand. Fox looked up when he heard his father's footsteps and the pain he saw reflected there made Julian's heart ache.

"It's my entire fault. If I hadn't said those awful things she wouldn't have gotten so worked up and she wouldn't have been in danger. I knew she was pregnant and instead of treating her with the respect expectant mothers deserve I---" but he couldn't bear to remember the awful things he'd shouted and so he snapped his mouth shut.

"Fox, what happened was an accident and besides you heard Eve, she and the baby are fine," Julian replied, laying a comforting arm on his son's shoulder.

"I should have kept quiet and I didn't mean half of what I said but I was so angry. Finding out she was pregnant was such a shock and I felt so guilty for wanting her when it hasn't been a year since I lost Chelsea. And to make matters worse she's Ethan's widow. I shouldn't be feeling this way about her, it's wrong. Ethan and Chelsea trusted us and we're betraying them in the worst possible way," Fox muttered.

"God the things I shouted... I hurt her so much when all I want is to be close to her. If only I knew that she hadn't been unfaithful to Ethan, that all the things he confided in me were lies I could trust her a bit more but...what's the point? Ethan is dead and there's no point in tarnishing his memory," he murmured dejectedly.

Julian sighed, knowing that the time had come for Fox to learn the truth about his brother. No matter how many lives were shattered, it was time for the truth to come out.

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