Sorry for the long wait...things have been crazy in my life but I am here and updating as often as I can. Thank you for still being here, with me with this story. I know you wanted me to update Is It Love but this chapter just came to me so enjoy.

Brad stared at the file before him, but he was unable to concentrate. How Mercedes had survived the attack was beyond him. She seemed to humiliate him at every turn. She thought she was better than him and now Sam thought he could get over on him too. They both had to pay. They both needed to suffer. He looked over to Jesse and shook his head.

"This is ridiculous, I may have lost control but she deserved to lose her life."

"Well we have some news on that front. I heard back from our body on the force."

Brad looked up. "And?"

"He explained to her that she really has no case and maybe she should take a vacation...somewhere far away where you can't find her."

"And?"

Jesse smiled. "Sam took the bait of course and convinced her to leave with him. And Rachel sure came in handy. She gave me their hotel and room number."

Brad sat back in his chair with a grin on his face. "Now that is good news."

"You want better news?"

Jesse stood handing him a folder. "Your "Gift" is on its way to them now."

"Discrete I hope?"

"Very much so. As we speak a complementary tour of the island is being offered to the happy couple. Unfortunately there will be a small but effective engine fire that will tragically cause both of them to lose their life."

Putting his hands together he smiled widely. "With nothing to trace it back to me?"

"Sir it will all look like an accident. A tragedy, one that no one could avoid."

"Good, very good. Well look at that, my mood just lifted. Please let me know when the show begins, I want to be able to see the bitter end for her."

Jesse nodded. "Yes I went ahead and had the boat rigged. All you have to do it press play when the time comes and enjoy."

Brad's phone rang and he cleared his throat. "Momma Jones how are you?"

"Have you heard anything about where she is?"

"Yes she and that Lawyer have left for Hawaii."

"Brad she is not in her right mind, she still loves you. I don't know why she lied on you like she did. He must have brainwashed her."

Brad shook his head, "I know she does and I plan on getting her back. But Mom i need to go...but i promise I will bring her back and all of this will be over."

Brad hung up his phone looking at the picture of him and Mercedes on his desk. He tried to make it work with her, he tried to be there for her, she had no idea how hard he had tried to make a better life for her. Yes he lost his temper from time to time but that never meant that he never loved her or that he wanted any of this. But she did more than embarrass him by leaving. She betrayed him by sleeping with Sam, giving her body to him like some cheap slut. Yes he loved her but she deserved to die for her sins, she was going to die for her sins.

Sam opened the door allowing the waiter to bring the food inside. He tipped the guy taking the packet he handed Sam. Mercedes smiled walking over to the tray and grabbing a strawberry.

"Strawberries, grapes and bananas. Burgers and fries. Did you remember the drinks?"

Sam shook his head going over to the in room fridge and opening the door. "Anything you want from water, to pepsi to vodka is here."

Mercedes walked over to him popping a fry in his mouth. "What is that?"

"It looks like things we can do around that island. They have a sightseeing boat ride, its complementary you wanna go its tomorrow afternoon?"

"Oh that sounds fun, but I am more interested on what we are doing tonight? You said you have a surprise before we left."

"And I do. That is why we are going to eat, take a nice relaxing nap and get dressed for a nice romantic evening."

Mercedes moved closer to Sam and sighed heavily as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "You are so amazing, I don't know where I would be without you Sam, you saved me so many times."

Sam pulled her close kissing her deeply. "I love you and can't imagine never meeting you Merce. You are the best thing to ever happen to me. now lets eat before our food gets cold and then we will take that nap."

Mercedes nodded walking over to the food biting her lip. She would never be able to repay him for everything that he had done for her but she had no problem trying.

Sam awaited Mercedes as she finished getting dressed. He had the whole night planned and hoped she enjoyed it as well. The bathroom door opened and his breath hitched as she stepped out. Every time he saw her, he was amazed by her beauty and this time was no different. She wore a knee length off the shoulder wrap around purple dress. Her makeup was natural the way she always wore it. Her hair pinned up and a few trundles graced her face. He walked over to her, wrapping his arms around her he placed a soft kiss to the base of her neck.

"You get more beautiful every time I see you."

Mercedes smiled looking over Sam, he wore a pair of Khaki pants and a light green buttoned up shirt and smiled widely.

"You get sexier every time i see you."

Sam moaned softly into her ear. "We need to get out of this room, because if we don't our date is gonna consist of me taking you in every way."

Mercedes smiled walking away from him. "Well then we better go. I am ready for my night out with my sexy amazing boy toy."

Sam followed after her. "Boy toy? I am a man incase you have forgotten."

Mercedes shrugged walking out the door. "I guess you are gonna have to prove that tonight."

She grabbed Sam's hand and they walked hand in hand to the elevator and down rode it down to the bottom floor. She started walking towards the restaurant but Sam stopped her. "Nope we are actually eating somewhere else…"

She cocked an eyebrow and followed him out to behind the hotel. She gasped as she noticed a beautiful set up in an secluded area. On the beach near the water, was a little cabana with a candle lit table for two set up.

"I think you will need to take your shoes off m'lady. Unless you want me to carry you across the sand."

She smiled pulling her shoes off. "I think I can manage." Grabbing his hand Mercedes led him to the table. She pulled him close to her and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Ok you need to tell me how you did all this? It had to cost you so much."

"Nothing in this world could ever cost to much or be too good for you. I love you so much, but I also know you won't let me live this down without telling you, so the owner of this beautiful place is a friend of the family. And they owed me a few favors."

Mercedes sighed. "I want to dance with you, is there any music on this date?"

"Sadly I didn't think of that."

Mercedes smiled widely as she began to sway with him in her arms and began to hum "Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey. She began to sing and Sam held her closely. As she continued to sing Sam couldn't fight the fact that this moment with her was perfect. As the song ended he pulled away from her misty eyed and sighed. "You know I think I fell in love with you the moment I met you. How that man couldn't see how completely amazing you are is beyond me."

Sam moved a little further from her and bent down on one knee.

"Sam what are you doing?"

"I want to spend the rest of my life loving you Mercedes. I want to make you my wife and have lots of babies with you. I want to wake up to you everyday and know that I am blessed to have you. So what I am saying is will you Marry me?"

Tears filled her eyes as she backed away from him. "Sam what about Brad?"

"What about him? I love you so much and I know you love me. So become my wife."

Mercedes kneeled down to Sam so they were eye level. "I never thought I would find man who I wanted to be with as much as I want to be with you. Of course I want to marry you Sam, you are the man of my dreams. I love you."

Sam smiled widely as he placed the ring on her finger. Mercedes wanted to cry and shout for joy at the same time. She couldn't believe how lucky she was, Sam was everything. It was in that moment she realized just how amazing Sam was. She pulled away from Sam and looked towards the water.

"How secluded would you say this area is?"

Sam glanced around. "Well Sugar told me that we had total privacy. This part gets closed off at night."

Mercedes nodded and stood. "Well I guess that means we should make the most of our engagement."

Sam frowned slightly. "I would but I don't have my swimming trunks."

Mercedes bit her bottom lip nervously and stood. "Isn't that funny? I didn't bring mines either."

She moved away from Sam and pulled her dress off. She tossed it at Sam and turned away from him removing her bra and boy shorts tossing them towards the table. She made her way to the water not giving Sam a second glance. She didn't want to back out of what she just did so she just waited for him to join her.

Sam only hesitated for a moment as he watched her undress and sashay her beautiful assets to the water. Undressing himself Sam made his way to the water and scooped her up in his arms. She laughed playful as he carried her into the water. She wrapped her arms around him pulling his lips to hers.

She moved around Sam mangantikng to wrap her legs around his waist. She moaned feeling him grow beneath her. She kissed him passionately as the water lapped around them. She reached into the water connecting their bodies, Sam hissed feeling her warmth and firmly gripped her behind. He began to move her against him and she whimpered. "God I missed you Sam."

Sam carried her to the edge of the water laying her in the sand. Mercedes gripped his back as he thrust hard feeling her legs tighten around his hips. Making love to Mercedes was always amazing, but having her underneath the stars and moonlight, with the waves crashing and tide moving all around them felt magical.

Mercedes glanced out into the water feeling free and safe for the first time in a long time. The night ended beautifully. After making love on the beach and finally getting around to eat their food, they headed back to their room and continued the celebration. A celebration which continued into the morning. After a lazy morning on the beach she and Sam headed out on their boat tour. Everything had be so perfect that morning and they wanted to enjoy it all. Packing a picnic for the tour she glanced out to the crisp blue ocean glanced towards Sam.

"Tell me this isn't the most amazing sight you have ever seen."

Sam came up behind her and whispered in her ear. "Its beautiful but the most amazing sight I have ever seen is in my arms."

Mercedes leaned against Sam and turned towards him she kissed him sweetly as the boat jerked and she almost lost her balance. The boat came to a stop and the driver frowned slightly. smiled. "I am so sorry but we seemed to have hit something. I am going to check it out and I will be right back."

The driver looked over his shoulder sadly and swallowed hard. "If you will excuse me."

He disappeared to the lower half of the boat and Mercedes sighed. "Well I guess there could be worse ways to spend our time."

She kissed him again and the driver walked back up in full scuba gear. "So I will check it out and be right back." He hesitated for a moment and turned to leave but stopped looking over his shoulder once again. he dropped something then dove into the water. Sam walked over to the letter and frowned.

"He dropped this."

Mercedes took the letter and put it on the table next to her. "You think we have enough time to christen this boat?"

Sam cocked his eyebrow and pulled her to him. "Oh I think we have time for a little bit of everything."

Sam lifted her to him as the boat began to rock. He kissed her but stopped and glanced around. "Did you hear that?"

"Hear what baby?"

He lifted his finger to hers and glanced around the boat listening to the ticking sound he was hearing. As Sam looked around Mercedes grabbed the note. She opened it and felt sick to her stomach as she read it.

"Please forgive me but I really needed the money. You have 10 minutes to get off this boat and as far away from it as you can before it explodes. Please get off. I couldn't tell you because we are being watched."

Mercedes turned towards Sam. "Sam look."

He shushed her but she moved towards him pulling him close. "Sam we gotta get off this boat now."

Sam glanced at her. "What?"

"Sam we just gotta go just we gotta get off of here."

Sam pulled her close. "Mercy I know that you might be a little scared but I am sure he will come back in a few minutes." Sam looked down to his watch. "He's only been down there like 8 minutes or so."

"Sam! Will you just!"

She threw her hands up in frustration and pushed Sam into the water. He was taken by surprise and had to get his bearings under the water before popping his head up finally. As he swam back to the top he heard a muffled sound which pushed him further down into the water. Poppin out and catching his breath Sam glanced around in shock at what he was seeing. Fire and debris flew everywhere and he struggled to see anything past it. His thoughts went to Mercedes as he glanced around trying to find her.

"Mercedes? Merce? MERCEDES!"

Sam swam around trying to avoid the mess around him but praying to find Mercedes. He tried to listen out for her but every moment that passed and he didn't hear her beautiful voice his heart sank.