So now that the book is winding down I am excited to hear your predictions, do you think Sam's mom and mercedes were working together in secret? Was everyone in on Sam and Mercedes getting together? What is going on with them not using condoms!? And what will happen when Duncan and Cam find out what Sam did to their little sister?

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Mercedes walked up her gate and to her place and felt immediately nervous. She wasn't sure why,

But she was certain that Sam's family knew something was going on with them. The looks they gave her turned her stomach. She wanted to believe that they would approve of her, that they would think she was good for Sam, but then she realized that maybe they thought that Sam could do better. She walked into her home and stopped in her steps as Sam sat on her couch, the look on his face told her he was not happy about something.

"Sam? Are you okay?"

"I need to ask you something, and i need you to be honest with me."

"I am always honest with you Sam." She said moving further into her home shutting the door. She moved to sit next to Sam. "So what's going on?"

"Was all this a game? A Ploy to get me?"

"What?"

"You needing help get guys, those dates? The meeting with my mom, were you in on this from the start?"

"Sam you need to calm down, I don't know what you are talking about, what happened?"

"You happened and I am through being used by you."

Sam stood and mercedes stood with him, unsure of what was happening. "Sam I am not using you. I would never do that."

"Oh and you would never use Preston or that Harper guy to make me jealous?"

She stopped in her tracks and stared at him. "Who told you that?"

"So it's true?"

"Sam I just needed you to see me as more than Cam's little sister, more than your friend."

"You played me from the start."

"I didn't! Sam i never thought you would fall for me, not in a million years so I wanted a way to get you to notice me. To want me, desire me and you did."

"Because you tricked me!"

"No! Because there has always been something between us, always been this bond we shared and at first I thought it was just a thing that happened between friends, they grow fond of each other, but Sam it's not. I have been in love with you for years and I knew your mom wanted to marry you off and I guess I just thought if I did all this maybe you would chose me."

Sam turned towards her with an icy stare. "You did this, because you wanted me to marry you? After I told you how much I didn't want to be married? You played me just like my mom and you want me to believe that you care about me?"

Tears burned the back of her eyes as she pleaded with him. "Sam I knew you would never marry me, I just wanted this time, our time."

"You used me, targeted me and tricked and schemed to get me in your bed. I trusted you, more than I trusted anyone in my life."

"Sam I might have gone about this the wrong way, I know that but I was desperate to get you to see me, I was so scared that you would fall in love with someone else before i had the chance to tell you how I felt. I loved you I have always loved you, you have to believe me."

"There is no excuse for what you did."

"I never meant to hurt you."

"Yeah you never meant to hurt me by using me. Was I even your first or was that a line too?"

She slapped him before she could stop herself. Stepping away from him as he nodded and moved to the door.

"Goodbye Mercedes."

He said and with that he was out the door. She stared after him, rooted to the ground as she heard the gate slam shut. She fell to the ground heart pulling from within her, Sam was gone and she knew that this time he wasn't coming back.

Sam made it home in record time, anger fueling his every being. Except when he really thought about it all he saw was the devastated look on her face, caused by him and his words. Shaking of the anger he went straight to bed forcing himself to sleep and not think about what happened. He managed to stay sleep till 5:30 am and finally gave up grabbing a shower that turned out to be a quick one considering his mind went to the time he and Mercedes spent in there making love. The water had long turned cold when he pulled her in his arms for the third time and she begging him to give her five minutes to gather her strength.

It seemed it didn't matter where he was in his place, visions of her danced around his head, trying to convince him that letting her go was the stupidest thing he had ever done. Getting dress he made his way down to his office and stayed pretty much all morning. Around 11am Stacey came back and immediately know something was wrong.

"Sam, please, please tell me that you didn't do what your face says you did."

"Stace I am really just not in the mood."

"If I would have known you were going to be an idiot and break up with her i would never have said anything. And now the friendship."

"Don't worry, your name wasn't mentioned, and besides she is the one who used me."

"Sam, do you really believe that? If mercedes hadn't made some sort of move you would still be dragging your feet dreaming about some mystery woman."

Sam ran his hands through his hair. "She was the mystery woman I was dreaming about."

"See! Even your dreams were trying to tell you to go for it. She didn't try to hurt you Sam, she isn't that kind of woman and you know it."

"It doesn't matter we are done, i can't trust her."

"Sam what I think you are doing is running, your feelings they scare you and so you do what you do best you run, and i can't stop you but let me remind you of something, if you broke up with her that means you hurt her and she is crying right about now and that also means that someone will be making a call to her brothers. Brothers who feel about her how you feel about me. Because if some man hurt me y'all would be on the run right now and you know it."

Stacey gave him one last look and left the room as Sam sighed. He hadn't even considered d britehrs in the matter. But he meant what he said, they were over. He would deal with Cam and Duncan when the time came.

The Lunch crowd brought another guest to Sam's place. His parents. They wanted to see the work that was done on his place and had yet been able to. Letting his staff know that he would be back he lead them upstairs and waited by the door as they looked around. His mom sighed with a smile on her face as she examined every part of the place.

"Wow, Mercedes sure did leave her stamp on this place didn't she? I mean the decorator I had in mind was good but this is you, but with a touch of elegance and beauty."

Sam nodded. "Yes she and Mr. Hummel out did themself."

His dad noticed his guitar and picked it up strumming a few times. "You playing again son?"

"Mercedes left it out, she said it was my uh craft so I should be proud."

His mom nodded. "Music is such a wonderful expression of oneself."

"Yeah, do you guys want something to drink."

His parents shook their head and Sam went into the kitchen, his mom followed.

"I hope you sent Mercedes some flowers as a thank you for all her hard work, it hardly looks the same."

Sam felt his eyes water as he thought about the last night they spent together. He covered the bed with roses and chilled some sparkling cider. They spend the evening making love over and over again until the early morning, then he went to make them a sandwich and ended up putting Mercedes on the counter and feasted on her. He came out of his thoughts to find his mom staring at him.

"Sam are you okay?"

He looked away from her and cleared his throat. "Yeah probably just my allergies. Anyways I should be getting back downstairs."

"Okay, I know something is wrong, I just wish you could talk to your father or I about it."

Sam moved over and kissed her cheek. "I am fine really. I will see you later."

The next day was hard for her, she made it to her office with a minute to spare before 8am, she sighed closing her eyes and staring at the desk before her. Trying to stay focused on work she opened her calendar and saw "breakfast with Sam" circled in a heart. Tears ran down her face as she scratched it off and continued to look down the list, her heart stopped seeing there was an Art Showcase being held in one of the reception halls, hosted by the Women's League and she was supposed to be over it.

How could she face his mother, how could she face anyone, tears streamed down her face and she felt sick to her stomach. This was hell. Heartbreak was hell and now it was making her sick.
Mercedes knew she was in no way ready to deal with any of this but she had no choice the show must go on. So she fought through her feelings and me with Henri, to confirm the menu choice. But he took one look at her and knew something was wrong. Upon questioning she broke out into tears and excused herself, while leaving she heard him mumble something about needing a shotgun.

After some tea and relaxation she dressed to attend the function. Trying to put on a brave face she stopped in her tracks seeing Mary walk in followed by Quinn and Marley. She held her head high and walked over to them.

Mary looked her over and frowned. "My dear are you okay?"

She nodded. "I am fine."

Mary nodded. "Must be more of this allergy thing I hear is going around, I know you were supposed to help host but you seem really under the weather I can cover for you dear."

"Mercedes looked at her, yeah she liked Mercedes until she realized that she and Sam were no longer friends, the moment her brain mentioned Sam, the damn inside of her heart broke and tears welled up again.

"Thank you." she said horseley. She made her way out of the room and the hotel until she reached her place. She went straight to bed not wanting to be bothered by anything or anyone, she just wanted to cry.

Two days after later, Sam was soon face to face with Duncan and Cameron. He was at his desk going over his receipts when his door flew open and slammed shut. He looked up and sat back in the chair, from the looks on their faces, they were looking for a fight and the way that Sam felt he was ready to give them one. Sam stood.

"Duncan, Cameron."

Duncan moved closer to Sam as Cam sat back and observed his best friend. "What in that damn hell did you do to our sister?"

Sam stared at them and for a moment fear encased him, he knew she was sad but the way Duncan was speaking and the solemn way Cam was looking at him, had him worried moreso. He moved closer to them. "What do you mean what's the matter? Is she okay? Dammit will you tell me!"

Duncan rolled his eyes. "You tell us, here we didn't even know Mercedes was dating anyone, so color us surprised when we get a call from Sunshine, she said that when you and Mercedes were dating she was the happiest anyone has ever seen her but now that you broke up she is miserable. And when we flew in last night and got a look at our sister. She was right. Merce isn't eating, she is barely sleeping and she cries at the drop of a hat."

Cameron folded his arms. "Henri says you should be shot and he volunteers to pull the trigger."

"Yeah well he really should mind his business, and you guys should too."

Duncan folded his arms. "Protecting Mercedes is our business, how long were you together How many times did you two go out?"

Sam looked at him, he knew what Duncan's next question would be and he hesitated for a moment, causing the older male to see red. "You had sex with her? You bastard!"

Duncan's fist hit Sam's chin sending him flying to the floor. "We trusted you! She trusted you and you took advantage of her. Get up so I can hit you again. You shouldn't have touched her, you already know we are not lucky when it comes to love, you just used her for a good time and she was gullible enough to believe you."

Sam had never been so angry in his life, hearing the way Duncan was speaking about Mercedes pissed him off. He stood shooting towards Duncan like a bullet and punched him in his mouth, causing him to fall back. "Don't! Don't you ever fix your mouth to sa anything bad about Mercedes, she is the best thing that has ever happened to me the best there is. Any man would and should count his blessings to even be near her."

Camron raised an eyebrow, "So you care about her?"

"Of course I care about her, she is my everything. Dammit she is the first thought I have in the morning that last I have at night. She is the air I breathe and living without her is dev-." Sam stumbled back falling into his chair as he ran his hands through his hair. "I can't be… no." he said mostly to himself.

Cameron turned to help Duncan to his feet. "Looks like the Jones curse might have finally been broken."

Duncan nodded. "Yeah from the look on Sam's face, maybe there is hope for us yet."

Sam shook his head. "I'm not, I can't be in love."

"Then you won't care that she has a date tonight? Some handsome guy or so all the ladies say."

Sam's eyes flashed hatred and anger and Duncan sighed. "Damn, mrs. Evans is on a roll I am gonna have to be next on her hit list."

He opened the door and Cameron looked at Sam. "Sam don't wait too long to tell Mercedes how you feel. She will only stay down for so long before she picks herself up again."

The door closed and Sam sat in denial. He wasn't in love, he couldn't be, but he felt something for her something stronger than he felt before.