A few minutes passed, no one wanting to start the conversation. The air was thick with tension. The only sounds anyone could hear was the sound of each person breathing.The silence was finally broken by Lucky, who barely spoke above a whisper.

"Tell me it's not true." His head was down, his eyes directed to his feet as he spoke. There was a pleading tone to his voice; desperation for someone to tell him what he had just heard was false.Elizabeth closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She needed to be strong. This was the moment she couldn't back away from.

"Lucky, I-"

Lucky looked up at her, anger blazing in his eyes.

"Tell me Jake is my son, Elizabeth! He's my son!"

Elizabeth shook her head from side to side."I'm sorry, Lucky. Jake is Jason's son." Tears fell from Elizabeth's eyes as she spoke, her voice stronger than she thought it would be.

Lucky choked back a sob, wiping at his face. "How could you---how could you let me believe he was mine? What were you thinking?"

"She was thinking she would protect her saintly image and no one would know what a slut she really is!" Sam stood there with her hands crossed over her middle, her face smug as she looked over at Elizabeth with venom clearly in her eyes.

"Sam! That's enough. We both had our reasons for not saying anything." Jason was not going to let Elizabeth take full responsibility for this. He had a hand in keeping this secret.

Sam looked over at Jason and snorted, shaking her head."That's right, Jason. Defend your whore. Doesn't matter that she got everything that rightfully belongs to me!"

"Sam, Elizabeth is Jake's mother! We didn't plan for her to get pregnant, we actually took precautions, but they didn't work! I can't change that."

Sam sneered. "Do you even want to, Jason?"

Jason shook his head and looked down, his hands on his hips. He was trying to keep his emotions in check."Sam, don't-"

"Answer me, damnit! If you could, would you want to change it?" Sam looked at him, expecting to hear what she wanted him to say.

Jason swallowed the lump in his throat. If there ever was an opening, this was it. His eyes drifted from the woman he'd spent the last three years with, to the woman who he couldn't ever really let go of. He looked into her eyes and saw the same question written in them. "No, I wouldn't want to change a thing." His voice was clear and confident. The relief on Elizabeth's face made him sigh.

Without warning, a fist came flying in his direction, landing squarely on his jaw. His head went flying back, and before he regained his footing, Lucky was grabbing him by his t-shirt.

"You son of a bitch! You slept with my wife!" Lucky was in his face, screaming at him. It only took another second before Jason responded in kind, grabbing Lucky's wrist and pulling him off of him. Lucky fought back as best he could, trying to keep his hold on Jason, but Jason kneed him in the stomach, causing Lucky to fall to the ground.

"Stop it! Just stop this!" Elizabeth was screaming at the top of her lungs.

Jason, breathing heavy from anger looked over at her, his lip bleeding from the strike. Lucky was on his knees, grasping his stomach. A silence fell over the room once again.

Sam rolled her eyes. "Wow, the princess speaks and everyone follows."

Elizabeth turned toward the annoying sound of Sam's voice and glared at her. The look she had on her face clearly made Sam feel uncomfortable, causing her to look anywhere but at the woman who was making her way right in front of her.Elizabeth stood right in front of Sam and stopped, her eyes blazoned with hate for this woman.

"You listen to me, Sam, because I will only say this once. I did not set out to sleep with Jason that night. We were both in very bad places, namely because the people we were supposed to be in love with betrayed us! You remember what you were doing that night, don't you? If not, let me refresh your memory," she got up really close to her, her voice confident and clear, "You were rolling around on your mother's floor having sex with your step-father. You remember Ric, right? Jason's enemy."

"Ric took advantage of me, he-"

"Shut up! Not one more word about how Ric took advantage. You knew exactly what you were doing, according to what Jason told me he saw. I know what being taken advantage of feels like. I know what having someone forcing themselves on me feels like. So don't stand there and play the victim anymore, Sam! You did it! Have the decency and the class to own up to it!"

"So what does that make you, Elizabeth? I'll tell you, anger sex. Revenge sex. He needed to get his rocks off, and you were just the willing participant. He realized his mistake right after it happened." Sam sounded so cocky; Elizabeth was itching to smack the taste right out of the bitch's mouth.

Elizabeth's mouth curved up into an evil grin."Is that why it wasn't just one time that night? Is that why we did it," she got face to face with her, "multiple times?"

Sam's eyes grew big and she turned to look at Jason, who was quietly watching the exchange, ready to intercede if needed. He was impressed by the way Elizabeth was handling herself. She had a confidence about her that he hadn't seen in a while.

"You told me it was a mistake."

"No, Sam. I never said it was a mistake. I never said I regretted it. I could never regret that night."

Sam nodded. "Right because of Jake, because you made Jake that night."

"Yeah, we made Jake that night." He took a deep breath before continuing. "But it was so much more than that."

Sam's shoulder's started to shake, tears streaming down her face.

Lucky, who was silently seething during the whole scene, shakily stood up and turned toward his wife."Was it just that night, or were you sleeping with him for a while? Was it Jason I should have been worried about when I was focusing on Patrick? How long had you two been going at it?"

Elizabeth turned toward Lucky, and suddenly felt a shift. The responsibility for him suddenly seemed to lift from her shoulders. Of course, he would turn this all around on her. This would turn out to be all her fault, right from the beginning.

"Jason has always been there for me. He is the one person I know I can go to and not get lectured about what he thinks I should do. I went to him that night because I had just seen you in MY bed with Maxie! I had nowhere to go! He was there, and he was in the same pain as me. We reconnected. That was the only night we spent together, Lucky. I never cheated on our marriage. As far as I was concerned, our marriage was already over!"

Lucky laughed bitterly."Let me ask you this question, Elizabeth. The reason you remarried me, letting me believe Jake was mine. Was it because you actually loved me," he looked from her to Jason, and back again, "or was it because you couldn't have who you really wanted?"