Sam rested her dark head of hair on Jason's chest. She could hear Jason's heart beating rapidly through his large and muscular chest. It was a surprisingly soothing sound to listen to.

Sam prayed that Jason would go along with her plan. She'd heard the irritation in Jason's voice as he was speaking with…Brenda? Yeah, that was her name. Some part of Sam didn't want Jason to be in the situation he was obviously uncomfortable in. Another part of Sam, a deeply hidden part of Sam, was bothered about a woman being intimately involved with Jason. Sam couldn't explain but the idea of Jason being intimate with someone else made her almost violently ill. She knew she shouldn't fell these things, she was married after all.

Jason surprised himself when he wrapped his muscular and protective arms around Sam. He decided that for the moment he would ignore how perfect if felt to have his arms around Sam's petite yet curvaceous body. Instead, he rested his chin lightly on the crown of her head, and inhaled the smell of jasmine, lavender and vanilla in her silk-like hair. He could drown in the scent and die a happy man.

Jason didn't know why, but he was going along with Sam's statement. Was she returning the favor for him being the shoulder she'd cried on earlier? Was she hoping that he would let her go back to her abusive husband? Did Sam think that by doing this, Jason would owe her? Whatever the reason, Jason couldn't bring himself to out Sam's lie. She felt so good pressed against him, so right. It was like his body had been designed to have Sam's pressed against his.

He could blame it on the fact that she smelled so damn good! Yeah, that's a legitimate excuse for going along with Sam's lie. Her enticing scent prevented him from thinking with a clear head. Who knew the smell of vanilla, jasmine and lavender could be so sexy? Jason had a feeling that the main reason he found the scent sexy was because he found Sam even sexier, though he'd only admit that to himself.

"This...this is your girlfriend?" Brenda smirked, "Jason, I know you were hurt when I left, but I didn't know you were so hurt you decided to torture yourself."

Sam clenched her teeth. All she was doing was trying to help Jason out of a situation he obviously didn't want to be in. She didn't ask for rude comments, or insults. This bitch was going down!

"Excuse me" Sam responded, "But who are you?"

"I'm the woman that Jason Morgan could never get over" Brenda responded, with a flip of her hair.

*That's it,* Sam thought furiously, *it's on!*

"Really? Are you sure because Jason has never mentioned you? I don't think he's mentioned any of his exes beyond saying that he's glad that dumping them led him to me." Sam quipped back. She finalized her words by smiling up at Jason. His liquid blue eyes stared deeply into her ever-melting brown ones.

Jason smirked at Sam's words, before running his finger lovingly over a sliver of skin that was revealed just above Sam's jeans. Her skin was so soft. He wondered what it tasted like, and what it would feel like if her bare skin was pressed against his.

Whoa! Where was that coming from? He couldn't have thoughts like that about Sam. Oh, who was he kidding? He could have those thoughts as long as he didn't act on them. Yeah, that's what he was going to do, not act on it.

"Jason. I like her." Carly said breaking Jason from his thoughts and pushing the door to Jason's home open. Maxie and Olivia were right behind her.

"So this is the girl you had me go shopping for?" Maxie asked. She stared openly at Sam. "She's definitely beautiful."

"What are you three doing here?" Jason was still wrapped up tightly in Sam, but he gave each of the three new intruders an icy glare.

"We came to warn you that the model from hell was back in town, but obviously we're too late." Olivia responded. She stared at Sam while she responded to Jason.

"Hi, I'm Sam." Sam said, reluctantly untangling herself from Jason's muscular arms. Ignoring the fact that her body felt considerably cooler without Jason beside her, she reached her hand out to shake Maxie's hand. Instead, Maxie pulled her into a tight hug.

"I love her already!" she squealed. Sam was wearing the hell out of her simple outfit. While Maxie had picked out the clothes, Sam had turned them into sexy outfits. Internally Maxie began planning her first of many shopping trips with Sam. They were going to have so much fun. "I'm Maxie by the way!"

"It's nice to meet you Maxie." Sam smiled at the perky young woman, once Maxie had released her from her strong grip. The perky blonde may be small, but she's definitely strong.

*Kind of like me.* Sam thought to herself.

Sam's eyes connected with Olivia's. Both women looked each other up and down, before entering into a stare match.

Maxie and Carly both sighed. They knew what was coming. No woman that had ever been involved with Jason had been able to stand up to Olivia's stare. They always looked away first. It was Olivia's way of proving that the woman couldn't handle Jason's life. Her belief was that if they could handle her "Bensenherst stare" than maybe just maybe they could handle Jason's life.

Olivia shifted her weight from her left foot to her right. She intensified her stare on Sam, who surprisingly enough wasn't showing any signs of backing down. Olivia was proud, but she couldn't back down just yet.

Sam placed her hand on her hip. She knew what Olivia was doing, and she respected it. Sam was glad that Jason had people in his life looking out for him, and Olivia was no different. It was obvious that all three women cared a great deal for Jason, seeing as they rushed to his home to inform of Brenda's return. If Sam was being honest, Brenda was very close to meeting the old Sam McCall who took shit from no one!

"She's good." Carly whispered to Maxie.

"I know," Maxie whispered back, "no one has ever lasted more than thirty seconds and Sam's going on two minutes!"

Jason smirked as he listened to Carly and Maxie's whispering. They were right, no one ever lasted under Olivia's stare, but Sam was holding her own. She was so amazing! Hell, Brenda had looked away after about twenty seconds. She'd later told Jason that Olivia was scary and she didn't want her around. That was the first of many times that Brenda had tried to control Jason's life.

"Impressive." Olivia finally spoke. Slowly, she softened her eyes, and Sam did the same.

"Thank you?" Sam responded, her confusion evident.

Carly smiled from ear to ear as Brenda fumed. This Sam woman was good in her book if she could piss Brenda off so well. That was clear in the way that Brenda stamped her foot at Olivia's words.

"Hello ladies." Brenda spoke, drawing all attention back to her, just the way that she liked it.

"Why are you back?" Maxie asked.

"I missed you too Maxie."

"Yeah well if you leave now we can all go back to missing you."

Olivia snickered at Carly's expression to Maxie's comeback. No one hated Brenda more than Maxie. She and Brenda had been good friends for years only for Maxie to find out that Brenda was using Maxie to get to Jason. Not to mention that before Brenda set her sights on Jason she had used Spinelli and broken his heart. After that little incident, Maxie spent a night in jail for attempting to batter Brenda with a six-inch heel.

"How can I leave when it's obvious that I'm needed here?"

"Yeah and why is that?" Olivia asked. She decided to intervene because she noticed that Maxie was clenching her fists. Everyone knew that as small as Maxie was, she was always ready to fight.

"Jason and I left things in a really bad place, and I intend to rectify that problem. Jason and I had a really good relationship and he was a great listener and I miss that. Not to mention Jason was the best friend I've ever had and though he may be mad with me right now, I'm here to fix things."

Sam was becoming irritated with Brenda's presence at the moment. She could see that Brenda was lying and it was becoming

"Oh?" Brenda asked, "And why's that?"

"Well," Sam said as she wrapped her arms around Jason once more, "in case you didn't hear what I said the first time, I'll say it again. I am Jason's girlfriend."

*Not for long* Brenda thought to herself.

"Now I really like her!" Carly exclaimed, before taking Sam's hand that had found its way back around Jason's waist and shaking it firmly.

"She can definitely hold her own." Olivia said, as she shook Sam's hand after Carly had finally released it.

"Sam," Jason said looking down at her. She was staring back up at him; their lips were only inches apart. Jason broke the spell by speaking once more.

"This is Carly, Olivia, and Maxie." All three women waved as their names were spoken.

"I'm Brenda." Brenda said speaking up. How dare Jason not introduce her first!

"That's not important." Carly responded, "what is important is that you, Jason Morgan, didn't tell us you were dating again, or that you'd found a girlfriend that we actually like."

"Don't blame Jason." Sam intervened, "I wanted to keep us a secret."

"Why?" Brenda questioned. She needed ammunition if she going to split Sam and Jason up.

"Not that it's any of your business, but both Jason and I have been hurt before, and we wanted our privacy so that we could get to know each other and learn to trust each other."

"You're sure it's not because you're a gold digger? I mean Maxie did say that Jason had her buy clothes for you."

Before Sam could get a chance to respond, Jason shocked everyone including himself with his words.

"I love surprising Sam with things she doesn't need. She brings light to my life, and while she hates it, I love buying her things."

Jason finalized his words by planting a searing kiss on the over-sensitized and exposed skin of Sam's neck. She tasted like vanilla! Jason was sure that if he and Sam had been alone things would have gone a lot further. Jason smiled when he heard Sam's feeble attempt at suppressing a whimper. He was definitely affecting her as much as she was affecting him.

Blushing profusely, Sam looked at the audience surrounding her and Jason. She figured that looking at the people staring at her was better than acknowledging within herself the fact that Jason's lips on her neck had awakened something inside of her that Sam thought had died a long time ago.

Jason had awakened the passion in Sam. With just one kiss, that wasn't even on her lips! God help her if she didn't want to know what else he could awaken within her!

"This is so cute!" Brenda smiled, "so how long did you guys work on this? Did Maxie put you up to this? Or maybe it was Carly and Olivia? Neither one of them can think for themselves anyway."

"I'll kill her." Maxie said throwing her purse to the ground and unbuttoning her jacket.

"Wait," Sam said, mentally cursing herself for interrupting the beating Brenda was about to endure, "maybe we should handle this like adults."

The walls around Jerry were closing in. The fortress he'd built was crumbling to the ground around him and there was no one he trusted to help him build it back up.

He once trusted his mother, but she had always showed favoritism between Jax and him. That favoritism was always directed towards Jax. The one and only time Jerry felt like he'd gained acceptance form Lady Jane was when he'd introduced her to Sam. Jerry then began blaming Sam for the acceptance he wasn't getting from his mother. It didn't help that Jax was very forward with Sam every chance he got.

Jax may be Jerry's partner in business, but he too couldn't be trusted. Jax never, not even for family, did anything that didn't benefit him in some way. Jerry knew that Jax wanted something from Sam, and while she never encouraged Jax's advances she was never mean to Jax either. Jax did what Jerry could never seem to do. Jax made Sam laugh. As a result, Jerry punished Sam.

It seemed that no matter what Jerry did to Sam she always managed to pick herself back up. He'd tried multiple times to break her but she just seemed to pick herself back up and take her punishment with her head held high. She was so much stronger than him.

Olivia, Carly, and Maxie were sitting side by side on Jason's couch in his living room. Each woman had their legs crossed.

Jason was sitting in a chair diagonal from all three women. Sam was sitting on the arm rest of the chair. Jason arm was draped around Sam's.

A part of Jason knew that keeping physical contact with Sam was only for show, but another part of him found comfort in sharing physical contact with Sam.

Brenda was seated directly across from Sam and Jason. A huge coffee table rested between them.

"You wanted to be civilized adults about this, so why don't you start the conversation?" Brenda sniped.

"Okay" Sam sighed. She ran her fingers through her hair and unintentionally wafted the scent of her hair into Jason's nose. God he loved that scent!

"Why are you here?" Carly asked. Sam could take the high road if she wanted but Carly preferred to get straight to the point.

"I already explained that."

"Yes, but what makes you think it's going to work? Jason's obviously happy with someone who's not you. What the hell makes you think that you can come here and ruin what makes Jason happy?" Olivia spoke up.

Before Brenda could comment, there was a loud knock on Jason's door. Sighing, Jason rose reluctantly from his chair. He walked out of the living room and headed towards the door. He opened the door to see Sonny, Johnny, and Spinelli. Each man looked worried.

"They're in the living room." Jason said. He knew his friends. They were only worried when it came to the women they loved.

Jason walked in after the three men. Almost like a magnet he walked over to Sam and pulled her from her seat on the arm chair and into his arms. He kissed the crown of her head, avoiding the looks he was receiving from his best friends and Brenda.

Jason Morgan didn't show affection when he was in public. A kiss or too maybe, but never like what they'd all just witnessed. When Jason had entered the room he looked almost hungry. Then, he pulled an unsuspecting Sam into his arms and it looked as if the hunger had been satisfied. No one in the room could deny the passion between them when Jason kissed Sam's head and she bit down on her lip.

"Hi, Spinelli." Brenda spoke, breaking the spell.

"Brenda." Spinelli responded as he hugged Maxie closer. Maxie had been there when Brenda had unbeknownst to everyone else crushed his heart. He really liked her and she had only used him to further her agenda to get Jason. He wasn't going to be manipulated a second time.

"Maybe we should go." Johnny suggested as he wrapped Olivia in his arms.

"Agreed." Sonny responded resting one arm around Carly with his other hand playing in the ends of Carly's hair.

"I'm not ready to go!" Brenda announced.

"Oh you're going!" Sam and Olivia responded simultaneously. The two looked at each other and laughed. They could definitely get along.

"Sam, we'll see you tomorrow, maybe?"

"Sure Maxie. I'll be here."

Sam placed her small hand in Jason's. The warmth emanating from him was comfortable and soothing to her.

Jason looked down at Sam, and he could see vulnerability swimming in her eyes. He knew her head was swimming with so many questions and very little answers.

As Jason closed the door behind his friends, Sam dropped her hand from Jason's. After making sure that his door was locked, he turned to Sam.

"We should talk."

"That…sounds good."

Jason and Sam walked back into the living room and sat in chairs opposite of each other.

"Why did you tell Brenda what you did?"

Jason couldn't bring himself to say the words. The idea made his blood heat up and excitement fill his veins. Jason wasn't quite sure he could handle saying the words. His lips were still tingling from the kiss he'd placed on Sam's neck. Her skin was so soft.

"You helped me last night when I…when…anyway, I just wanted to return the favor."

"You know I still can't let you go back to Jerry, right?"

"I told you I'm not running Jason. I meant it. I told all your friends that we were dating, don't you think it would look weird if I just disappeared all of a sudden?"

"You're going to keep lying?"

"Jason I can tell that the woman irritates you. Hell, she makes me want to borrow your gun and beat her with it."

Jason chuckled softly at the idea of Sam's words.

"What happened between you two anyway?"

Before Jason could answer Sam's question, the sound of his doorbell rang through his house.

SORRY IF THIS CHAPTER WASN'T WHAT YOU EXPECTED.

THERE'S MORE TO COME BUT BETWEEN AP CLASSES AND MY BOYFRIEND I GET DISTRACTED!

TOO MUCH? *SHRUGS* EH MAYBE!

ANYWAYS...

I'M GOING TO START WORKING ON CHAPTERS FOR THIS STORY AND OTHERS HOPEFULLY WEDNESDAY.

NEXT TIME...

SAM AND JASON ARE THROWN DEEPER INTO THEIR FALSE RELATIONSHIP!

THAT'S ALL FOLKS...

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