Bella 12

Five years later...

Samantha looked out her window from her home back in Florence. She couldn't believe it had been all these years since she last seen Jason after finding out that he was to marry Courtney that morning, it had torn her apart. And she swore that never again would she see him. From what she got from Brenda, he was unhappily married to Courtney, but loved and cherished the little girl that Courtney had and Sam was happy for him…No matter how much her heart had been broken she could never hate him nor be unhappy for him. Sam had been all over the world more than once crossing continents but always felt Jason's presence with her.

"Hey babe." He said to her.

"Casey." She said leaning into kiss him

"Hmmm Samantha you look wonderful as always" He said to her

"So what shall we do tonight?"

"Well, I can think of a few things….."

"Yeah, I am sure." She said as her mind drifted back to him, it always did, especially when she was about to get intimate with another she missed everything about him.

"Hey where did you go beautiful?" He asked her in his Aussie accent.

"Nowhere."

"Come here Sam." He said pulling her onto his lap, she wanted him so badly, actually no, she didn't want him who she wanted was Jason, but since he wasn't available she settled for second best, no doubt about it Jason Morgan was the most experienced lover she had ever had. But he wasn't here and she needed to just forget about him, but she couldn't.

Half way across the world Jason had just come in the door seeing his beautiful daughter looking up at him with her artwork she made for him.

"Guess what we learned about in school today daddy?"

"What my princess?" He said leaning down to give her a kiss and a hug.

"We learned about Italy, Florence actually." She said matter-of- factly to Jason, she was bouncing around and telling him how beautiful it was as he listened to her, he was broken up, he missed her. More than words could say, he knew she thought about him all the time, but as he looked at his little girl with a bright smile on her face excited about all that she had learned he couldn't deny her the thrill of it all. It had been so long without Sam that he had forgotten how she looked time had erased those memories of her physically but mentally, it was if she was there still with him. Her words spoke volumes and the memory of her when he had finally seen her after a year's absence was burned into his heart. He had come to love Courtney but that love was no where near how he would ever feel about Sam. When she found out that he was to be married she just couldn't get past that, she had felt betrayed he could see it in her eyes. He had no business making that commitment to Courtney when his heart had been with Sam, entwined forever with hers.

"Daddy can we go there someday?"

"Go where?" Courtney said as she walked in the room from the kitchen.

"To Florence, Italy."

"What are you talking about?"

"Mom, we learned about Italy today."

"Oh."

"We should go daddy." She said with eyes full of excitement.

"Someday princess." Jason said running his hands threw her dark tresses.

"Jason, why don't we just go, I am sure Sonny would allow us to have use of he jet. It has been so long since I went anywhere."

"I don't think so."

"Why not?" Courtney asked in a questioning way. To him Florence was and would always hold the memories of her. Something that was just precious to him and his only. And he didn't want to share that memory of her with any one else. His heart was and always would be in Florence.

"Daddy please?"

"I'm going to call Sonny right now." Courtney said as everything in Jason screamed 'no!' inside of him.

About ten minutes later the plans were already in motion for their departure the following week. They would be spendingtwo weeks there and even though he wanted to see her so badly and had longed for another chance to look at her…he wasn't to sure about all of this.