As she was on her run, Courtney was thinking about the serious conversation that she had just had with Jason. She was completely aware of the fact that he was scared, and that there was something he wasn't telling her. Courtney hated herself for being so selfish. Something was obviously bothering him, but she honestly didn't want to know what it was. Courtney wanted this baby, she wanted to try. Jason had bad news, and he lied to her when he told her that he and Sonny had taken care of everything.
Courtney sighed as she stopped running and put her hands on her thighs. She wasn't being a very good, or supportive, wife right now. When she got home, she would ask him what was going on. If he wanted to wait, then she would have to deal with it. She turned her blonde head around and looked towards Max. She waved to him and pulled out her cell phone, and dialed the familiar phone number.
"Hello?" Courtney heard her husband's voice on the other line and she smiled.
"Hey, it's me," she heard herself say, as she absentmindedly twirled a piece of her hair around her finger. Once she realized what she was doing she immediately stopped, she was acting like a sixteen year old with a crush on the captain of the football team. And Jason certainly wasn't the captain of the football team.
"How's your run? Is everything alright?" Jason asked as he shut the manila folder on Armando Sandoval shut.
"Everything's fine. Wanna meet me at Kelly's in 10 minutes? We can have lunch, considering we didn't exactly finish breakfast," Courtney suggested, hoping he would agree.
"Yeah sure. I'm hungry anyways," Jason said as he walked to the closet and grabbed his leather jacket. He would walk there, it wasn't far. And plus, it was almost spring. It was nice out, and he really needed the air.
"Great! See you in a little bit," Courtney said as she slapped her phone shut and walked over to Max. "You can go now Max, Jason's on his way here right now."
"You sure?" Max asked, knowing that he wasn't supposed to leave until someone got there.
"Go home and see your wife and your kids, I know you'd rather be with them than me anyways," Courtney said playfully.
"No offense," Max said as he gave her a thankful smile and left.
Courtney smiled in spite of herself. Max had a beautiful wife and two very handsome twin boys. He was lucky, she thought. But then again, so was she. Still smiling, she began the short walk to Kelly's. She was only a few blocks away when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Mrs. Morgan, how wonderful to see you again," Armando Sandoval said as he took her hand and kissed it.
"My husband will be here any second, and I don't think he's going to be happy when he sees you," Courtney said defensively as she backed away from him.
"It's a free country Mrs. Morgan. I'm allowed to talk to whoever I wish," Sandoval said.
"Well I don't want to talk to you, so if you'll excuse me, I should be on my way," Courtney said, trying her hardest to be polite.
"I thought you said you were meeting your husband," Sandoval said as he grabbed her arm, forcing her to look at him.
"I am. And I would appreciate it if you would let go of me," Courtney said as she yanked her arm away from him.
"As you wish. But I have a message for you to give your husband and your brother," Sandoval said.
"Tell them yourself, I'm not your messenger," Courtney scoffed as she began, once again, to walk away. And he, once again, grabbed her arm. More forcefully this time.
"Mr. Sandoval, I'm very close to calling my husband…"
"Sandoval, I told you. You leave my wife out of this," Jason said as he walked straight over to Sandoval and grabbed him.
"Jason don't. It's not a big deal. I'm fine," Courtney said pleadingly as Jason maintained his hold on Armando.
Jason acted like he didn't even hear her.
"If I ever see you touching my wife again, I swear to God I'll kill you," Jason murmured to Sandoval.
"Mrs. Morgan and I were just discussing you when you walked up," Sandoval said.
"Jason, I'm hungry. Can we go? Please?" Courtney wanted to get on her knees and just start begging him to leave.
"Listen to me, and listen good. I told you already that you're to leave my wife alone. If you have something to say, you say it to me. I want you to pretend that she doesn't exist…"
"How could I possibly do that? She is breathtaking…" Sandoval was cut off by lack of air supply to his lungs.
"Don't. Don't you even interrupt me. This is your last warning. Stay away from Courtney," Jason said as he let Sandoval go. He wanted so badly to throttle him right on the spot when he saw him talking to Courtney.
Jason stared at Sandoval's back until he was out of sight. Then he turned to his wife, prepared to do battle.
"Where's Max?" he asked.
"I'm sorry. I told him I was meeting you in ten minutes. I told him to go home," Courtney said as she looked at the ground.
"Courtney, you can't do that. His job is to make sure that you're safe. What if Sandoval tried to take you? What if he touched you? And I wasn't here to stop him?" Jason asked as he lifted her head up.
"Jason, I said I was sorry. Can't we just drop this? I'm sure that Armando will stay away now that you've threatened him," Courtney said rather coldly as she turned away from him and began to walk towards Kelly's.
With a sigh, Jason turned to go after her. "You know that you're not supposed to let Max go home early," Jason said as he caught up to her, she was speed walking.
"What's really going on Jason? When I told you I wanted a baby, you wanted to tell me something first. Then you didn't after, you made up something so I wouldn't worry. Well now I'm worried Jason," Courtney said exasperatedly.
"Sonny and I have to work with Lorenzo Alcazar to take out the Sandovals," Jason said as Courtney stopped walking and stood dead in her tracks.
"And you don't want to have a baby right now do you?" Courtney asked as Jason watched tears fill her blue eyes. He cringed.
"That's not what I'm saying. At first I was nervous, because of all the danger. But I've had time to think about it. I want to try and have the baby, I promise," Jason said as he took Courtney's hand.
"We can wait if you want to Jason," Courtney said sadly.
"No, Courtney. I want you to be happy. You deserve to be able to do what you want. You want to try to get pregnant. So do I. Waiting isn't going to make the danger go away. It's always going to be there," Jason said as he smoothed her hair.
"Thank you," Courtney said as she began to cry, once again cursing herself for being weak.
"No. thank you," Jason said as he kissed the top of her head.
"For what?" she asked.
"For everything," Jason replied as he wiped away her tears and put his arm protectively around her and began their walk to Kelly's, for a normal, peaceful lunch between husband and wife.
Jason knew that the peace they had now would soon be destroyed. The Sandovals were strong, very strong. Courtney had no idea of what they were capable of, and Jason guessed, neither did he. But he put on a brave face for his wife when she looked at him. She needed him to be strong right now, and if that meant putting out a brave front, he'd do it. He'd do anything for her.