Chapter 30:
Can't Deny The Truth Even If You Want To
"Samantha?", Ethan asked, walking up behind her.
"Ethan, do you ever go way?", Sam asked.
"I'm hurt, I thought we…", Ethan began.
"You thought wrong.", Sam replied. "Now, what do you want?"
"Do I have to spell it out for you.", Ethan asked, causing her to shiver ."What? I was here looking for mother.", Ethan he continued smiling to himself, she wanted him as much as he wanted her.
"Ivy doesn't live here.", Sam told him. "And, you know that."
"What, are you accusing me of being here to see you?", Ethan asked.
"What other reason do you have?", Sam asked.
"Let's see my ex wife lives here, my son, my ex father, my ex mother-in-law.", Ethan told her. "Sam, you're the last thing on my mind. I'm sorry if you thought I came here to give you a little tryst in the bed room."
"You're full of it.", Sam told him.
"Admit it Samantha you want me.", Ethan told he, taking his lips and gently nibbling on her neck.
Sam backed away from him. "I thought you were through with us?", Sam asked.
"No, you chose that.", Ethan told her.
"You know that I want you. Ethan I've never said I didn't. but., you also know the circumstances.", Sam told him.
"Sam, I'll protect you. You don't have to do this, you can trust me, you can let me take care of you and your family.", Ethan told her.
"Ethan, how many times do I have to say this. We can't afford it.", Sam told him.
"Sam, I love you. I love you, I've never felt this way before, not with Gwen or Theresa.", Ethan confessed. "It takes every bit of strength I have not to throw you down on the table and make love to you till I draw my last breath. I want to scream to the world just how much you mean to me. Sam I want to have a family with you, grow old together, but most importantly I want you to trust me, let me take care of you, let me deal with Alistair.", Ethan told her.
"Ethan, I can't he'll kill you.", Sam told him.
"So what at least you'll be free. You won't have to put up with him. You won't have to do his dirty work.", Ethan told her.
"Ethan, I can't lose you. I can't kill you like I did my mother. Ethan, I'm the reason she's dead if I hadn't been born daddy would never have killed her, no proof of her betrayal would have been presented.", Sam told him.
"Baby, no you're not to blame for her death. Your father killed her not you, you are not to blame for there problems. Apparently they were trouble in the water before you came along.", Ethan told her.
"Ethan, me being born made it worse.", Sam told him.
"How do you know that you're not your father's child?", Ethan asked.
"When I was four I had leukemia, I needed a bone morrow donor and well dad nor mom matched, this man he worked at the liquor store where mom used to work, he did.. Dad demanded a DNA test he wondered why his nor mom's DNA matched and it came back that Mr. Hussein was my father.", Sam told him. "Dad, was heart broken and he and mom argued a lot after that, one night there was a big bang noisy I came down stairs and-and mom laid at the kitchen table bleeding dad knocked her unconscious which wasn't too abnormal he beat her frequently. But, that night it went a little to far he killed her, by hitting her over the head with a bar stole."
"My God.", Ethan exclaimed.
"Yeah, he wasn't the same after that night he lost his mind when I was about 13, hardly ever said much. I think he loved her in a sense, but Jackie was always around. Jackie was mama's child hood friend.", Sam explained.
"What happened to her body?", Ethan asked.
"He put her in the creek about a mile away from the house.", Sam explained.
"Did they ever…", Ethan asked.
"Find her?", Sam finished, and he merely nodded. "Yeah, some local boys found her in the creek about 5 weeks later, they never did a investigation. Dad told them that she had left by herself to go to the lake and the police thought that she might have slipped hit her head and fell under and drowned."
"My God.", Ethan exclaimed.
Sam just looked at him, Ethan thought of her as trash. "I'll-See what I mean Ethan, I'm too messed up. You don't deserve me. My mother was killed because of me."
"No.", Ethan replied. "Your father was an abuser who beat his wife to death. He would have done it anyhow."
"He never hit Jackie.", Sam told him.
"You said he changed that he lost his mind and I'm sure he thought that it could happen to Jackie if he lost it again. Then, how would it look both of his wives being found in the creek face down with a head wound?", Ethan asked.
"Jackie, deserved to die. She was a monster she ruined my childhood, she took everything from me. She use to tell me she as she hit that that's what mama had caused, that my mother's sins were causing this to happen to me or she's say that…that I killed my mother, that I should have died the day I was born.", Sam told him, she was now in tears.
"Oh God, she had no right.", Ethan exclaimed, in rage with anger. "You don't believe a damn word she told you, you deserve to live, you aren't to blame Samantha.", Ethan replied, rapping his arms around her.
"She also use to say that I was dumb and that the only way I would ever survive is on my back, giving it to any man.", Sam told him crying and letting him hold her. With him, she felt safe, with him she felt secure. Fox was so good to her as well. Fox had gave her so much a place to stay and for awhile showed her what a family was.
"Sam you are beautiful and very intelligent.", Ethan told her kissing her forehead.
"But, you won't deny the fact that I am good between the sheet?". Sam asked.
"Sam that's not the only reason I'm so in love with you. I think you're an amazing person as well as a great lover.", Ethan told her.
Sam smiled up at him. "Ethan, I want…just don't ever leave me. We'll be together soon, but first I have to carry out Alistair's orders."
"Meaning, you have to sleep with Fox and that you and I have to act like we're nothing to one another?", Ethan asked, Sam simply nodded. "Sam, I can't sit back and watch you and Fox carry on. Sam it will kill me to know you are in bed with my brother and not me.", Ethan told her.
"It'll all work out.", Sam promised. "I've got to go along with this plan so that my father and brother will no longer be in danger."
"God, how am I suppose to live without you? I mean I know that it won't be that long but, Sam it's going to be hell for me.", Ethan told her.
"And, me as well. But, I'll try to sneak and see you from time to time.", Sam told him, kissing his lips.
"Well, I guess this is good bye for now?", Ethan asked pulling her into his arms and capturing her lips with his, what start out as a sweet good bye kiss soon turned into hot heated passionate kiss, taking his hand he tore away her shirt, not even taking the time to undo the buttons.
"Ethan, we can't…",Sam began.
"Please, Sam I have to taste you one more time. I have to feel your skin on mine.", Ethan told her, quickly jerking his own shirt over his head and throwing it on the floor. Quickly he unclasped her bra and threw it on the floor with the rest of his and her clothes. Taking his index finger he gently rubbed her nipples till they were like small buds.
"Ethan please, what about the trial?", Sam asked, in a low moan.
"Forget it.", Ethan told her, then he took her right nipple in his mouth and gently sucked it, causing her to moan in ecstasy.
"Oh God.", Sam exclaimed as his hand came up her mini-skirt and along her panty line.
Ethan smiled down at her. "Sam, you're so…Oh God baby you have no idea how much just the sight of you turns me on.", then he tore away the skirt she wore and she was left simply in a purple thong., he then pulled her to him and began to kiss his way down her body and smiled as she shivered with desire. "Oh God Sam, I've never been this addicted to anything or anyone."
Sam smiled down at him, he was awaking all her senses with his mouth and she knew his words rang true to her as well, he was like an addiction to her. She was addicted to him.
Taking his left hand he slip it under her thong to feel her wetness on his bare hand, taking one finger he entered in to her, feeling her walls close around it, he could tell that she wanted him as much as he wanted her, he gently took his finger out of her and licked it dry.
Than he removed his pants and they both where left with just a small article of clothing separating them from becoming one.
Sam sighed, he had made her feel so loved and now she would do the same for him. She gently got up of the table where he'd lay her and stood up, she smiled when she saw a confused look in his eyes, then she gently pushed him down on the table and let out a giggle, he still had know idea what she was about to do.
Taking her hands she pulled his boxers down to his knees, then licked her lips, slowly she took his shaft into her hands and massaged it with her hands, making him grow harder.
Then, she slowly lick the head with the end of her tongue, she watched as he sighed with sheer pleasure, slowly she put the rest of him into her mouth gently rolling her tongue over his balls. Then she began to suck him, each time sucking harder.
"Samantha, I don't want to…Oh God. Samantha, I want to explode in you.", Ethan told her. "Not, like this."
Sam got up and watched as Ethan tore away he thong and pulled her on top of him entering in her swiftly, almost automatically he injected his baby fluid into her.
Ethan pulled her close to him and she continued moving with him in a quick rapid movement. "Oh God, that's it baby, come with me.", he exclaimed, feeling her walls tighten around his erosion and feeling her reach her climax in his arm.
Sam lay there lifeless in his arms, breathing in the scent of his aftershave.
"Samantha?", Ethan whispered, causing her to shiver. "Are you okay?", Ethan asked.
She looked up at him. "Yea. That was…thank you. Ethan, thank you for giving me this."
"Sam, you okay, you sound like your saying some sort of goodbye.", Ethan asked.
"Well, I am. Ethan, we can't do this.", Sam told him.
"So, in other wards you said all of this just to get me to play mattress tag with me.", Ethan smirked.
"Ethan, what I said did, does have some truth to it. I do care for you, I do want to be with you, I do dream of a future with you. But…", Sam began.
"But, nothing, baby I'd rather die than not be with you.", Ethan told her, pulling her close to him, he knew she was freezing by the way she was shivering, looking at her back he noticed something he'd never seen before she had a scar, not just any scar but, a deep one. It started between both her shoulders and went down mid ways her back. He watched tears form in her eyes, as if she was remembering something, something painful.
"What happened? Who did this to you?", Ethan asked, as she snuggled closer to him like a small child.
She just looked at him, just remembering.
"You know you can tell me anything. Samantha, I love you. You can trust me baby.", he told her coaxing her into tell him who had did this.
"I was 13, Jackie and Frank went away to the island. Jackie knew of this beautiful island, no one lived there and very few ever visited it. Frank and Jackie would go there often. They'd leave me to take care of everything the house, the yacht, the club, Daddy, like I told you earlier he lost his mind after killing mama.", Sam explain, her eyes, took on a funny like gaze, like she wasn't there, instead she was in the house she had called home. "Well, one night, Jackie came home, she got mad, because a candy rapper was on the table and she pick up a knife and stabbed me."
Ethan pulled her closer to him, whispering I love yous.
"I know that wasn't the reason. She looked for little reason to cuss at, hit me, stab me, abuse me. I was her personal punching bag. Everything that happened to her was my fought. I couldn't please her. Ethan, I tried for so long. I use to get up every morning when I was a little girl and cook us all breakfast. I was 8 years old and cooking breakfast just to please her. Then, when I got older I worked the pole just to try to earn her respect. To have a mother in my life. Ethan, she was all I had. Frank, Oh My God I envied him, she use to be so jealous of him, she use to take him to theme parks and she bought him things, not just for birthday like she did me, whatever he wanted, she got him. I remember one time I want this doll so much, it was one of those dolls that cried when you picked it up and use the bathroom when you gave it a bottle of water. I begged for it, but Jackie said that I was a bad little girl, that I didn't deserve to have anything, but a coffin.", Sam told him.
"OH My…Sam she'll never hurt you again.", Ethan vowed.
"I know.", Sam told him, looking down at his hands that held her tightly against him. "Because, she's dead.."
"Dead?", Ethan questioned.
"Yeah, she died a year ago.", Sam told him.
"Sam, what aren't you…", Ethan began.
"Ethan, I killed her, are you happy now. I killed her. I shot her to death. I killed the bitch. I KILLED HER.", Sam screamed, then busted into tears.
Ethan just looked at her, he couldn't believe what she'd said, she'd killed her step-mother. She's killed her, he couldn't imagine his Samantha harming no one.
Sam looked up at him. "You-you hate me, don't you?", Sam asked, her face was now streaked with tears.
"How in the hell do you get that? Sam, I would have done the same. She abused you, baby, she stabbed you, she took your childhood away. She took your father away, she took so much from you.", he kissed the top of her head as she continued to cry. He silently prayed for Samantha, he prayed that one day she would be able to put this whole thing behind her, he prayed that one day she'd find happiness, he prayed one day that she'd be his.
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"Why, don't you go on up?", Dylan suggested pulling up to the building. "I'll meet you up there in a few."
Janet nodded then hopped out of the BMW.
"Kathelina?", Janet asked, walking over to the girl, she look some what like the pictures she'd seen.
"Yes?", Kathelina asked, turning to the see Janet the woman who had interrupted her special night with Dylan.
"Janet Swansboro? ", Kathelina gasped
"You look as if you saw a ghost.", Janet smirked.
"What do you want? Why are you here?", Kathelina asked.
"Just to formally introduce myself. Last night you were off before I could say a word.", Janet told her.
Flashback
"Dylan, who was….", Kathelina began walking to find him with another woman in his arms.
"Kat, can you please go, babe I'll call you.", Dylan told her simply.
"Okay, sure.", Kathelina told him confused, then she gave him one last look and left.
End Of Flashback
"I don't know who you think your fooling, but, I'm not fooled one bit Janet. I know you despise me and that you want Dylan back.", Kathelina told her.
Janet nodded in agreement. "I won't deny it. I do want Dylan back."
"Well tough luck, I love Dylan…",Kathelina began.
"But, does he love you? Kat, are you sure he was making love to you or a ghost of me last night?", Janet asked.
"I don't have to listen to this you know not a damn thing about me and Dylan. You don't know how much we love one another.", Kathelina replied.
"We or me, Kat is it more you loving him than him loving you. I'm sure he's mentioned me a couple of times. Did he ever tell you that he was over me?", Janet asked.
"I don't know where in the hell you get your nerve? You come back after so many years and here you stand , acting as if your shit don't stank, well it does. How in the hell can you stand here and play it like you never did a thing wrong by leaving, Janet you broke his heart and it took him forever to get over you. Dylan, is a good person and yeah it gives me some sort of high knowing he loves me, but most importantly he's happy and I'll be damn if I let you wizzle your way back in his life only to stomp on his heart again.", Kathelina vowed.
"You don't know the whole story I did it to pro….", Janet began.
"Protect him?", Kathelina finished. "Yeah, right, Janet you used him and you played him like a fool."
"I did not Kathelina, you have it all wrong. I don't know who you've heard the story from, but I did it to protect Dylan. He was almost killed, he was shot 5 times, twice in the arm, once in the chest, and twice in the leg. It's miracle he survived. ", Janet told her.
"Janet, who's fault is that? You should have broke all strings to James.", Kathelina told her. "You should have made your relationship with Dylan your everything. You should have…"
"What right do you have to tell me what to do little girl? You know not one thing about me. I'm a stranger to you, you know not the slightest thing about me. Yeah, your brother hates me, he thinks that I'm lower than trash, but, you can't form opinions based on what your lovely big brother tells you, Yeah, I hooked up with Dylan, yeah I left him, yeah I went Mexico with James, but you don't know the important stuff. All of you see what you want to. You see me as the bad girl as the girl who ruined Dylan's life, who got him shot at, who put him at deaths door and who left him for another man.". Janet told her. "Kat, I loved Dylan more than you ever could."
"Oh, yeah sure. You got him shot at, put his life on the line. You left him without so much as a good bye note. You didn't call him for 3 whole years. Janet, he was lost without you. But, you know what he isn't the lost boy you left him to be. He found me and he found the love he always was missing. He never loved you like he does me, he waited on me. He didn't push me into anything I didn't want to do. He loved me without using his body. He loved me in away he never loved you. He trusts me, he respects, me cares for me."
"Aw, isn't that the sweetest thing I've ever heard?", Janet exclaimed, then busted into laughter. "Not. You're pathetic. Dylan isn't some little school boy that you can razzle and dazzle with your short skirts, low cut tops and naughty girl like behaviors. He needs a woman and from were I'm stand. Goldie lock's ant got shit. Why don't you run along and play with your dollies and leave Dylan and his needs to me. You can't satisfy a virgin school boy, much less a man like Dylan. Kat, tell me did he moan my name last night are you sure he was making love to you, because I know in his mind he was making love to me, a real woman.", Janet told her, before Kathelina hand connected to her face.
"Is there a problem, here?", Theresa asked, walking up to were the two stood, after witnessing Kathelina slap Janet.
"Janet?", Dylan asked, walking up behind her.
"No, everything is peachy, right Janet?", Kathelina asked.
"Yeah, everything's peachy, just peachy/", Janet replied.
"Good, well since everything's great, why don't you all go on up? I need to speak to Kathelina.", Theresa told them. "alone.", Theresa added, giving Janet a fake smile.
"Sure.", Janet replied.
"Come on Janet.", Dylan told her escorting her to the elevator.
"Now, tell me the truth, what did Janet say to you?", Theresa asked.
"She's after Dylan and she might get him. Theresa look at her, she looks like some porn star. She's everything a man could want. She's beautiful and smart and…", Kathelina began.
"Not you, Kat, Dylan is wild over you, you can tell from the look in his eye that, he wants no one but, you. Kathelina, he wants to get you in bed and fast . You've got that man bewitched.", Theresa told her.
"Yeah, but wanting someone sexually and loving them is two different things. I mean, men and women hook up all the time just for a little push- push, just because he wants to have sex with me doesn't mean he loves me or wants to be with me.", Kathelina told her.
"That ant you talking. Kat, come on, Dylan waited on you, he loved and respected you enough to wait till you were ready. Dylan, loves you, believe me. I see the way he looks at you sometimes. I swear when you walk in a room, he stops breathing. Every little thing you do, even the silly things he loves. Even, when you're mad at him and you ant speaking he's always looking at you. Yeah, Dylan may have a past with Janet, but that's all it is a past. You're his future. But, there's a little catch to it, you have to fight for him. Kat, you haven't to show Janet he's yours and she ant got no rights to him. You've got to…", Theresa began.
"Make the sex hotter?", Kathelina asked . "You know, make it more exciting."
Theresa gave her a questioned look. "You know, whips, chains, handcuffs?", Kathelina continued.
"Hold it right there. No one said, become Rebecca Hotchkiss over night. You don't have to spice the bedroom action up, because Dylan was like a panting dog, when his eyes fell on you. You got him, you got him good in that department.", Theresa replied, before going into a fit of giggles. "Seriously, all I'm saying is don't roll over and hand him to her, don't let her stake her claims into your man."
"Ain't, that what you should be doing too? Theresa, come on, Fox doesn't love Sam. He loves you. Yeah, he thinks she's hot, but the only woman in his heart is you.", Kathelina told her.
"Kat, please…", Theresa began.
"Talk to him, okay. Let him know that you love him, let him know that you care. Let him know that you don't want no one but, him.", Kathelina told her.
"I ant begging him, Kat he left. He left me without a reason, he just all at once took up with her.", Theresa told him.
"I know, Fox is stubborn and he does things that not even I can explain, but Theresa come on, you've got to…", Kathelina began.
"I'll talk to him. I'll lay the cards on the table, but I ant going to beg and plead and cry. Kat, yeah I love him, he's my world but, I can't…", Theresa began,. "You know, I swore off love after Ethan married Gwen, I said I'd never love no one, but well you see how far that went."
"Fox has the way of getting, or shall I say demanding your love.", Kathelina told her.
"Yeah, he sure does. Kat, I never thought I'd say this, but…I never love Ethan. He was a infatuation. I saw this man in these books and well I made up this great fairytale, but my fairytale had the wrong prince. Ethan wasn't my true, Prince Charming. Fox was."
Kathelina smiled.
"You think I'm crazy don't you?", Theresa asked.
"No, I think that's sweet and I hope that I can say that about Dylan one day.", Kathelina told her.
"So do I.", Theresa replied.
"Well, I got to be going. Duty calls.", Kathelina told her, turning to leave.
"Here's the elevator…", Theresa began.
"Can't claustrophobic.", Kathelina told her. "I'll climb the 3 floors any day."
"Okay, suit yourself.", Theresa told her stepping on the elevator.
"Hold the elevator, please?", she heard a man shoot and she stop and waited for him to get on. "Fox?"
"Theresa?", Fox asked surprised.
"Where is your trophy?", Theresa asked.
"By trophy, I'm guessing you mean Sam?", Fox asked.
"Exactly.", Theresa replied.
"She'll be here she had to run over to the mansion.", Fox told her.
"You mean you let her go by herself? I thought you were permanently attached to her?", Theresa asked.
"Theresa, you aren't one bit funny.", Fox told her.
"Wasn't trying to be. Just thought I'd point out that Sam's low life, a money grubber, a slut and a liar.", Theresa told him. "I don't blame you one bit for not letting her out of your sight. Cause, we all know what happen last time. Ethan raped her."
"Why do you always got to bring Ethan in our problems?", Fox asked.
"Fox you know damn well that Ethan didn't rape the little trap. She probably opened her legs willfully to him.", Theresa told him. "Samantha isn't the sweet naïve little girl you think she is. She's a whore, a liar and a conniving little witch. She has manage to pull blinders over have of the men in this town. You, Dylan, Julian, Ethan. You all she her as some delicate rose. Well I got news for you your delicate rose has thorns and if your not to careful you're going to end up getting cut by her thorns. Fox, you don't even know the real Samantha Jenkins none of us do."
"And, no one knows the real you.", Fox told her.
"What's that's suppose to mean.", Theresa asked, stopping the elevator and
"Just, you let people see what you want them to.", Fox told her.
"I never hid a damn thing from you.", Theresa told him.
"No doubt. Theresa our relationship was the most honest and open relationship I ever had.", Fox told her.
"Then why are you throwing it away?", Theresa asked.
"I don't know. Maybe it scares me. Maybe, I'm more chicken of love then I thought I would be.", Fox told her.
"What's to be scared of?", Theresa asked.
"Maybe it's the fact that I don't have to play pretend with you. That I don't have to suffer to get you to love me.", Fox told her.
"And, you do with Sam?", Theresa questioned.
"Haven't I already?", Fox asked. "I mean I could lose my kids and I've lost my best friend.", Fox told her.
"Dylan?", Theresa asked.
"No.", Fox told her.
Theresa nodded knowing who he was talking about. "I didn't leave you, you left me."
"I know and I accept full responsibility for my actions.", Fox told her.
"You should.", Theresa told him. "I loved you with all of my heart and the minute Samantha Jenkins came in that didn't matter to you no more all that mattered was your animal like want for Sam."
"What about you? You're offal chum with Dylan these days and Ethan, boy no one would ever suspected that he tried to kill your husband. I mean you're sure in love with the scum bag."
"Fox, why are you so hell bent on arguing with me. Why are you so damn passionate about pushing me away?", Theresa asked.
"I don't have time for this.", Fox told her, pushing the button releasing the elevator and she simply pushed it again stopping it again.
"Oh God, why do you got to be such a idiot?", Fox asked. "Now, we're stuck here."
"Good, now you can do some explaining. First off, why are you so ticked off at me?", Theresa asked, he didn't answer he just pounded on the button.
"Beating the button into submission isn't going to work, we're stuck here.", Theresa told him simply.
"Thanks to you.", Fox huffed.
"Well, we're going to be here awhile.", Theresa exclaimed and sit down in the corner, then turned her attention to back to him, he was still beating the button in. "I told you once you're wasting your time."
"Well, it's my time to waste.", Fox replied, pounding the button.
"Suite yourself.", Theresa replied, not taking her eye off of him.
"Oh God, leave it to you to get us stuck 22 feet in the air.", Fox told her.
"Well, think of it this way if we die we die together.", Theresa replied.
"You've lost what mind you had left.", Fox replied.
"Is that a complement?", Theresa asked and smirked as he still beat the button.
"Do you ever give up?", Theresa asked.
"Nope.", Fox replied. "I'm a Crane, didn't you learn anything the past 2 years?"
"Oh God.", Theresa exclaimed. "You're so hard headed."
"Why, thank you, Resa.", Fox told her.
Theresa smiled at him, by now she would have gave up.
"Theresa, I think we're stuck.", Fox exclaimed, go over and sitting beside her.
"And, what makes you think that? Hmm, would it be the fact that we've been still for over 5 minutes.?", Theresa asked.
"Ha ha.", Fox exclaimed. "You're a regular Conan O'Brien."
"Why, thank you.", Theresa replied.
"How long do you think we'll be here?", Fox asked, getting up and walk back and forwards.
"Not long.", Theresa told him, walking over to him. "You don't like being boxed in do you?"
Fox nodded. "No."
"Well, why don't we uh-sing?", Theresa asked.
"Sing?", Fox asked. "Theresa, I don't want to sing."
"Come on it'll be fun.", Theresa told him.
"Uh-no. I don't sing.", Fox told her.
"Okay, then I'll sing for you.", Theresa told him.
Fox laughed. "Now, I know you've lost your freaking mind. You're in an elevator 22 feet in the air which means we could very well die.", Fox told her.
Theresa shrugged. "Then, what do suppose we do, hmm?", Theresa asked. "Sit here and let you go nuts."
Fox just looked at her.
Flashback
A 8 year old Fox and a 13 year old Ethan had went to the park and while they were there they had decided to play hide- n- go seek.
"Count to 20.", Fox scream over his shoulder. "And, no peeking.", he yelled then ran off to his favorite hiding spot the phone booth which was located about half ways the park.
He opened the door and squatted down to his knees. Laughing to himself. Ethan would never find him.
"Fox Crane.", he heard a voice come behind him, he turned around at the sound of his name.
"Where's your brother?", the boy asked.
"I-I…", Fox began, the boy was farley older than him and he didn't look to be to happy with his older brother.
"Look, Jerry.", the boy told his friend. "He's scared of us."
Jerry let out a laugh. "Well I'll be.", Jerry remarked. "Looks, like Ethan's little brother has found himself at the wrong place at the wrong time."
Jerry pushed him up against the glass of the inside of the phone booth. "Hand me that rock, Ron.", Jerry ordered.
Fox looked at him, he was going to kill him. Ethan had did something to these boys and they were going to use him as a way to punish Ethan. Taking the rock, the boy hit him hard on the shoulder knocking him to the floor and began to punch him with his fist.
"Luis, Miguel are you here?", 8 year old Theresa Lopez- Fitzgerald asked.
"Luis?", Theresa asked. At the sound of the little girls voice Ron and Jerry scrammed, they wouldn't let there selves be caught.
"Luis?", Theresa asked, coming up to the phone booth, then when she saw Fox laying in a pool of blood she screamed.
"He's dead, he's dead, Oh My God. There's a dead little boy.", she screamed in panic, squatting over the little boy.
"Uh-Ethan.", Fox grunted, but instead he saw a little girl who was around his age standing over him.
"Are you dead?", Theresa asked.
"I don't think.", Fox replied. "If so, I'm in heaven.", Fox exclaimed, but she didn't respond she just looked at him.
"What happened to you?", Theresa asked.
"Some punks tried to kill me.", Fox grunted trying to sit up.
"Let me…", Theresa began.
"Hey, listen. I don't need no little girl trying to play doctor with me. I'm fine.", Fox told her. "Girls, don't know shit about nothing."
Theresa slapped him hard. "Boys don't know shit about nothing.", Theresa replied.
Fox laughed at her hesitance to say shit.
"What's so funny?", Theresa asked.
"You.", Fox replied, letting out a huge laugh.
"Well, you must be the rudest, boy I've ever…", Theresa began.
"I'll take that as a comment.", Fox replied.
"Jerk.", Theresa spat.
"And, again she can't stop admiring me.", Fox smirked.
"Well, you're not dead and I'll be going.", Theresa told him.
"What's your number?", Fox asked.
"Excuse me?", Theresa asked.
"You know those 7 magic digits?", Fox asked.
"I'm not giving you my number. I don't even know you.", Theresa huffed.
"Well, the names Nicholas and you are?", Fox asked.
"None ya.", Theresa replied.
"Come on, baby.", Fox told her.
"I don't know who in the heck you think you are.", Theresa replied. "And, I'm not your baby."
"Your future husband.", Fox smirked "or at least future boyfriend.."
"Uh.", Theresa exclaimed.
"You know it's true.", Fox replied.
"Boys are gross.", Theresa exclaimed.
"What are you lesbo.", Fox asked, causing her to slap him. "I don't know what that means, but I'm no such thing."
"Prove it.", Fox challenged. "Kiss me."
"Yuck, you are twisted. You don't kiss when your this young that's for grown ups to do.", Theresa told him.
"So…", Fox told her.
"Where are you from? Mars?", Theresa exclaimed.
"Europe, well not technically. I go to school there.", Fox told her.
"Oh.", Theresa replied, confused. "How old are you?"
"8, I'll be 9 next month.", Fox told her.
"8, won't be 9 till next October.", Theresa volunteered.
Fox nodded. "So, what about the kiss?", Fox asked.
"Not going to happen.",. Theresa told him.
"Phone number?", Fox asked.
"Nope.", Theresa replied.
"Name?", Fox asked.
"If I wanted you to know I'd tell you.", Theresa told her.
"Ouch, who peed in your coffee?", Fox asked.
"You, now if you'll excuse me I'll be going.", Theresa told him, strutting off.
Fox lay there admiring her as she walked off she had to be the stubbornness little girl he had ever meet and the truth was he liked it, he like the fact that she had her own brain and didn't go along with everything people said.
End Of Flashback
"Sit.", she ordered and he obeyed.
"Why don't we talk.", Theresa suggested.
"Okay.", Fox replied.
"Okay, now you still never answered my question, why are you mad at me?", Theresa asked.
"Ethan.", Fox replied.
"Because, I talk to Ethan?", Theresa asked, she could tell he was freaking out, by the way he answered her question, when he didn't answer her question she began to get worried. "Fox?"
"Theresa, I-I can't breath, the walls are closing in on me.", Fox told her.
"Fox, come on don't concentrate on it.", Theresa told him, then she did the only thing she could think of she kissed him.
Fox pulled back stunned.
"Sorry, it's…", Theresa began, before he captured her lips in a sinful heated kiss.
"Hello, is there anyone in there?", they heard the woman in the control booth ask.
"Yea.", Fox replied, pulling away from her just long enough to answer.
"Okay, we'll have you down in a jiffy.", the woman replied.
"Thanks.", Theresa muttered, her eyes never left his.
"Uh, hmm, Theresa…", Fox began, his eyes never leaving hers. "Theresa, thank you for distracting me, I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't…anyways I appreciate….",he told her, stepping away from her.
"Why in the hell are you acting like this?", Theresa asked. "One minute you hate me and the next you're putting your tongue down my throat and Fox I know you love me. Can't you feel the heat between us? Fox we're meant to be."
"Theresa, you're better off without me.", Fox told her.
"Where's this coming from?", Theresa asked. "Fox you're the best thing that ever happened to me."
"Theresa, don't say that.", Fox told her.
"Why not it's the truth?", Theresa replied.
"Theresa, I only cause people pain. Everyone who loves me suffers.", Fox told her.
"Oh, My God. What makes you think that? Fox, who suffered because of you? Who? ", Theresa demanded.
"April.", Fox replied.
"Whose April?", Theresa asked.
"You know what…I never mind. I should have never…", Fox began.
"You can tell me anything.", Theresa told him. "You know that."
"Resa, just let it go.", Fox told her.
"Fox…", Theresa began, before the door opened.
"I-Well this is it, Resa.", Fox told her.
"You know I would say good luck, but…", Theresa began.
"Same here, but with the circumstances…", Fox began. "May the best man or woman win?"
"Yea, may the best man or woman win.", Theresa told him, eyeing him she silently cursed the woman who interrupted their kiss. She knew Fox still cared for her.
Fox gave her one last look then entered the courtroom. 'This can't be happening I can't hurt Theresa. I can't let this happen.'
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"Fox, hey, thank God you are here.", Kathelina breathed in a sigh of relief.
"What's wrong?", Fox asked, watching as his sister stirred through her papers.
"Well, where do I began? First off Harper called me this morning and said he can't make it and that I'll have to do my best on this case, then well Janet came home last night and well she made a special trip to me, tell me just how much Dylan loved her and not me and you, do you know how late you are?", Kathelina asked.
"Yeah, sorry about that?". Fox told her.
"We ant got but, about 15 minutes till we start.", Kathelina told him.
"Well, that really isn't my fault I got us stuck 22 feet in the air.",, Fox told her.
"With Theresa?", Kathelina asked.
"How'd you…", Fox asked.
"I saw you walk in behind her.", Kathelina finished.
"Oh, have you seen Sam?", Fox asked.
"Haven't seen her.", Kathelina replied.
"Well, I guess she's waiting for the elevator.", Fox told her.
"I suppose.", Kathelina replied. "Where's Ethan?"
"Ethan?", Fox repeated.
"Yeah, he's the first witness.", Kathelina told him.
"Are you sure that a good idea?", Fox questioned.
"Well, he does know Theresa pretty well, right?", Kathelina asked.
"Kat, I'm sorry for putting you in the middle of this, I fell like I'm burdening you with our problems.", Fox told her.
"Yeah, well I care for the both of you and Fox I don't think you are doing the right thing and if I had any say in matter, I'd drop this case and let you and Theresa work this out.", Kathelina told him.
"At one point we could, but not now she's the one who contacted her lawyer, she's the one who is trying to take my kids away.", Fox replied.
"I understand, where you're coming from, but don't you think it hurts her seeing you with Sam?", Kathelina asked,
"I know, Kat, I never meant to hurt her, I never meant to start caring for Sam.", Fox told her.
"I know the feeling/", Kathelina sighed. "My relationship with Dylan happened over night. I went there that one night to just get him got and bothered, I want him to forget Theresa. Love, was probably the last thing on both of our minds."
"I don't know if what I'm feeling for Sam is love. Yeah, I care for her and I hate to hear about all the hell she's been through. Sam's a good person, yeah she's been involved in some shady things in her life and she ant your ideal Betty Crocker, but neither have I. Kat, I've had my share of shady dealings.", Fox told her.
"Sam isn't what you think. Fox something about that girl rubs me the wrong way.", Kathelina told him.
"Sam has stood by me, even though everyone looks down there nose on her, no one in this town respects her and over half gossip about her and me and how she's dating a married man.", Fox told her.
"Sorry, I know that, you care about Sam and if I've said anything to hurt you or her, I'm…", Kathelina began.
"Let it go.", Fox told her.
"Fox, I just don't want to see you get hurt and I don't know it it's just the fact that in my eyes no one is better for you than Theresa or the sheer fact that Sam is bad news and my Crane sense have picked it up, either way promise me you'll be careful around her.", Kathelina told him.
"I will, and you promise me not to let your guard down in front of Janet.", Fox told her.
"Deal.", Kathelina replied, looking up to see Sam walk in.
"Kathelina, will you excuse us?", Sam asked, walking up to them.
"Sure.", Kathelina replied, forcing a smile to her lips. "I have to go talk to Ethan anyhow."
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"Ethan, hey.", Theresa greeted, walking over to him
"Hey, you okay?", Ethan asked.
"Yeah, no, not really. Fox and I… Ethan, if this trial isn't stopped I same as lose Fox forever.", Theresa told him.
"Haven't you already?", Ethan asked. "Resa, I'm sorry but…."
"Ethan you aren't going to take his place, so in other wards don't call me Resa, okay.", Theresa told him.
"Theresa…", Ethan began.
"Ethan, I…I love my husband, and yes we might not be together at this moment, but Fox loves me, as every bit as much as I love him.
"Theresa, please I am not trying to replace Fox, Theresa I know you love him and I respect that.", Ethan told her. "And, Theresa I'm so sorry that, Fox has chosen to leave you for Samantha."
"It's Sam's fought, she came here and befriended me in order to steal my husband.", Theresa replied.
"Theresa, if there is anything I can do….", Ethan began.
"There just might, Ethan you know Fox hates you, right?", Theresa questioned.
"Yeah, no surprise there.". Ethan remarked.
"And, Sam is obviously into you?", Theresa remarked.
"Not again, little one, we are not going down this road again.", Ethan told her.
"No, no, please don't. Listen, please you've got to help me.", Theresa told him. "Please."
"Okay, Theresa. I'll help you.", Ethan told her.
"Oh My, Goodness. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Ethan, I…", Theresa began kissing his lips softly.
"Your welcome.", Ethan told her, laughing at her, silliness.
"Okay, when Fox and Sam come this way. Kiss me.", Theresa told him.
"Your…", Ethan began, before Theresa took his lips with her own.
Sam glared at them and Fox simply shook his head in anger.
"Ethan, I… Oh God, please contain yourself.", Theresa told him, lightly hitting his chest.
Fox glared at them and Sam practically was in tears. 'What kind of game are playing, Ethan, I won't be your fool.'
Ethan, looked at her, he knew she was hurt, he wanted to take her in his arms. He wanted to proclaim his love for her and wanted everyone to hear.
Dylan walked up and saw what was going on, Theresa hand was rested on Ethan's zipper.
"Hey, hey.", Dylan exclaimed as Theresa's lips connected with Ethan's. "This is a courtroom, not the bedroom. Leave your soft porn for the house."
Fox looked at Theresa then Ethan then left, he didn't have time for his brother and wife's foolishness.
"Fox and I are not partakers of such. You can obviously see who has class here and who don't.", Sam told him.
"Sure, Samantha, you have so much class. You're screwing my husband. You have as much class as a local street corner worker.", Theresa told her. "At least what me and Ethan do isn't about the M-O-N-E-Y. I care for Ethan not his wallet."
"What are you insisting Theresa? That, I'm a whore who's in it for the money.", Sam asked.
"Aren't all whores?", Theresa laughed.
"I'm no such…", Sam began.
"Sam, you have a past as one. You told Ethan so yourself.", Theresa told her.
Sam looked at Ethan he'd betrayed her.
Flashback
"Ethan, I know you didn't rape her, okay.", Theresa told him.
"Good, cause I don't want to lose you and our friendship..", Ethan told her.
"Ethan, why are you so protective of her? I mean, you let Fox think you…",Theresa began.
"Sam's had it hard. Okay, she's been put through shit. By her family, Theresa they made her prostitute, made her dance at there club, when she was only about 14."
End Of Flashback
Ethan thought back to his conversation with Theresa that morning after him and Sam had been caught in bed with each other.
"Dylan, I gotta…", Sam began, before busting out of the courtroom.
Ethan had betrayed her. Ethan, had used her, had befriended her only to hurt her.
She thought back to what Jackie had always told her, 'that she was alone and that no one would ever love her, that she the only thing she was good for was being a sex toy.' And, that was exactly what she was a sex toy. Ethan Winthrop's personal sex toy.
Her heart broke with ever revelation of that. He'd never been alone with her, without wanting sex or having it. He'd made his attentions clear. 'My bed needs warming'
Those words were like daggers going through her heart, all she was, was another piece of ass. She smiled wickedly at herself in the mirror if Ethan Winthrop wanted a whore that's what he'd get. She'd bed every man in town if necessary. Ethan wasn't going to play her for a fool, she show him and this whole damn town. She'd marry Fox and have his children, she'd be his wife and be the ruler of the mansion. She'd show them to sniff there noses up at her, she'd show them that you didn't have to be born rich to live rich.
Ethan sighed, as Dylan walked off and then turned to Theresa. "What right do you have to bring my name up in your and Samantha's problems? Theresa, her past is like a open wound to her. She is been hurt by so many people. So many people have let her down, he father-biologically and the man she called her father, her brother, her step-mother. Theresa do you have any idea how it is to be beat? To be stabbed with knife to be…"
"Ethan, don't…I don't want to hear her lies, he sap stories about her supposed past. Ethan, we know not a thing about Samantha Jenkins. All we know is what she tells us.", Theresa told him.
"That's about to change.", Ethan told her.
"Meaning?", Theresa asked.
"I called Max, he's doing a past check on Sam.", Ethan told her.
"That's the best thing I've heard since she waltzed in this town.", Theresa told him.
"Theresa, stay out of it.", Ethan told her. "Keep your pretty little nose clean."
Theresa gave him a smile. "Now we all know that's impossible. Besides, you need my help."
"No I don't. Theresa, you'll only be in the way.", Ethan told her.
"No, I need to know the woman who has place herself in my husband's bed.", Theresa told him.
"I can't talk you out of this can, I?", Ethan asked, and smiled when she nodded no.
"Absolutely not.", she replied.
"Theresa.", Woody asked. "We're starting in a few."
"Okay, I'll be right over.", Theresa told him, turning her attention back to Ethan. "We'll talk later about this."
"Okay.", Ethan promised, and watched as she walked off.
"All rise.", the bailiff addressed.
Spoilers for Chapter 31:
Sam's testimony shocks the judge as well as Theresa and Fox.
Ethan vows to find out everything surrounding Sam and her involvement with Alistair.
Shots ring out in the Harmony courthouse, who is the shooter and who is the attended victim?