Chapter Seventy-Four: The Point of No Return

Author's note: I really don't deserve a lot of the credit for the next few chapers. Ange helped a lot for the upcoming ones. Thanks! And the rating has been officially changed to M, but I urge you not to give it up. I'm kind of paranoid about that.
"Don't you have to go to work?" asked Haley lazily, her eyes still shut.

"Do you want me to?" he asked. She reached up and kissed him.

"Never. But Brooke and Lucas are coming in from LA, and we haven't heard from Leigh in ages, so she'll probably need to be bailed out soon, and I was planning on going shopping today. So it would probably be a good idea," she said. He smiled down at her.

"Right, Brooke and Lucas are coming. To celebrate her half birthday," he said.

"Don't tease. She's my first born, I'm supposed to be doting," she said.

"Right, right. I can't believe Luke's coming back again. Doesn't it seem like he's around as much as he'd be if he actually lived here?" said Nathan.

"Yeah, sometimes. Be home on time tonight, to see Brooke and Lucas," she said warningly.

"I will be," he said, getting out of bed.

"Where are you going?" she asked.

"To shower. Care to join me?" Haley smiled as she watched Nathan walk across the room to their en-suite bathroom before. Still hearing silence from her daughter's room, she changed her mind and ran after him.

"Mr. Scott? These are the applicants for the editor of the new paper," said Deborah Lee, walking into the room. He smiled at her.

"Thanks, Deb. Do you have those numbers for me?" he asked.

"No, those will be here tomorrow," she said.

"And can you do me a favour, and cancel my four o'clock meeting?" he asked. Deb raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Doing something special?"

"Yeah, actually. It's Eve's half birthday and I promised my wife I'd get home early," he said. Deb smiled at the enthusiasm of the young father.

"That's nice. Haley's a nice girl," said Deb warmly.

"That she is," he said proudly, as the secretary backed out of the room.

Nathan cut out of work early to get home to greet his nephews, his brother and his sister-in-law. He noticed how tense they seemed, but quickly decided it was only due to the jet-lag.

The seven of them, after Jake and Ryan arrived, had a loud family dinner and a birthday cake, which Eve was too young to eat. After putting the three younger ones to bed, the six of them stayed up, drinking copiously.

"So where's Peyton?" asked Lucas, after a considerable amount of tequila.

"Like any of us know," said Haley, suddenly more amused by the situation.

"Blondie's manic depressed now," said Brooke.

"And having an affair with our professor," said Ryan.

Haley didn't laugh, though her more drunk sisters-in-law, brother-in-law, and Jake did. She glanced across the table to see Nathan looking equally sober.

She wondered what he wanted to talk about. She was fairly sure she wouldn't like it.

"What's up?" she asked, after the two of them had reached their bedroom with the door firmly shut behind them.

"Brooke and Lucas seem to really like having two kids," he said suddenly.

"Okay, you'd better not be insinuating what I think you're insinuating. Because you know my views on the whole thing," she said.

"What?"

"I told you. Eve's all I want. And I don't plan on sticking around forever," she said bluntly.

"Don't you remember that day in the park?" he asked.

"Huh?"

"The park. Three years ago, in LA. You said you wanted four kids. Whatever happened to that?"

"You happened, Nathan. Maybe with someone else, I'd still want that," she said harshly.

"Right. Haley, all I ever did was love you. All you ever did was love me," he said.

"I'm not in love with you, Nathan."

"You're not in love with me. You don't want me, I'm purely necessity. I've heard this song and dance before," he said. Haley flushed, beginning to grow angry.

"This is crap. I knew you'd get like this. You can never believe that there's a woman not in love with you, can you?" she asked.

"No, I can believe it. Just not in your case. Because I've never hurt anyone as thoroughly as I hurt you. And no one can hurt like that except for by love," he said.

Haley's eyes flashed dangerously, but Nathan didn't back down. She turned away to face the wardrobe, preparing to undress for bed.

"What's the matter Haley; does the truth hurt?"

Seething with anger she spun around to face him. "You don't know me Nathan Scott, whatever you may think you have no idea who I really am."

"Oh is that so," he said advancing on her, "so I don't know how your body trembles every time I come near you, I don't know exactly the spots to touch you to drive you over the edge? What else don't I know Haley?" he asked as he got closer and closer to her. He leaned in so that his hot breath fanned her neck. She shivered though she tried to hide it.

"I suppose I don't know how you scream my name every night either," he said.

Her hand caught his face in a stinging slap and quick as lightning he had her pushed up against the wall. He dragged a hand down over the front of her dress and watched her squirm in response.

"So what Nathan, so you can get a physical response out of me. Do you really think another man couldn't get exactly the same response?"

"Oh I don't only think it Haley I know it." He slid his hands up the side of her ribcage brushing his thumbs over her nipples and heard her gasp. "I'm the only one who'll ever be able to make you feel like this Haley, no one else will ever get a chance. You married me and we are going to stay married whether you like it or not. This," he said gesturing to her trembling body, "is all mine and it always will be."

She brought her hands to his chest clawing at the exposed skin where his shirt was unbuttoned, wanting to hurt him but he simply laughed. She moved her legs trying to kick out at him but his muscled body held her in place. The material of her dress bunched in his hands as he started to drag it up her body exposing more and more skin to his lust filled gaze. He yanked it up forcing her to raise her arms as he pulled it over her head.

Seeing his eyes on her she wanted to hurt him, wanted to wipe that satisfied smirk from his face. Physically she was no match for him but there were other ways. She looked up at him forcing her face into an expression of neutrality.

"Congratulations Nathan you're right. Physically you can make me feel like no one else can but you can't begin to touch my emotions or my heart. Maybe you were the one to take my virginity from me but Seamus touched me in a way that you never will. He touched my heart Nathan, and you have never even gotten close to that."

He withdrew for a moment as his gut clenched in rage. How dare she say that? He looked into her eyes seeing a steely determination staring back at him and felt his own determination rise. He was going to make her eat her words if it was the last thing he ever did.

"Oh really? Well, we'll just see about that." He moved his hand underneath her legs scooping her up into his arms and stalking to the bed. He dropped her down following her down immediately giving her no time to escape. Her body was pinned beneath his as he began to suck and nibble at her neck slowly moving lower until he reached her breast. Feeling his lips on her only served to fuel her anger even more and she forcefully sunk her teeth into his shoulder. He looked up at her smirking, "is that really how you want to play this game Haley?"

She didn't get a chance to respond as she felt his teeth graze against her nipple, biting lightly then soothing the injured flesh with his tongue. She could feel him growing harder against her and knew that this foreplay if it could be called that would not last much longer.

As if to prove her point he raised himself up on his forearms positioning himself at her opening before ramming himself deep up inside of her. She felt shockwaves of pleasure shoot through her body and let out a scream. Looking down at her he laughed.

"See I told you I could make you scream."