Forgive me but I hate this chapter. I definitely had trouble writing it which would account for the extra time it has taken to post.

Anyway, thank you for the wonderful feedback/reviews, you all keep my fingers moving on the keyboard:)

Chapter 38

"Ugh, do I really have to do this today?" Elizabeth complained as she searched through the hangers in her closet. She looked over her shoulder at Jason and he shook his head. "But Emily would be upset." Elizabeth reasoned.

Jason shrugged, "True but if you don't want to go…" he said, pulling on his shoes, "Emily and everyone else will get over it."

"Who has a baby shower for their second baby anyway?"

Jason opened his mouth to answer her but stopped when he heard a knock on the door. He stood from the bed and peeked out from the second story window. Offering her an apologetic look, "You may want to go in Cam's room with him and stay up here for a few minutes."

"Why? Who is here?"

"Lucky and Cruz." Jason answered.

Elizabeth's hands dropped to her side and she felt a nervous flutter in her stomach, "Is there something I need to worry about?"

Jason shook his head, "I can assure you that I have not done anything that would give them reason to arrest me… I guess that doesn't mean they will stop harassing me though." He grabbed his cell phone and turned to their bedroom door.

"Be careful, he is still bitter." Elizabeth warned.

He hurried down the stairs and opened the front door, "What now?" Jason spat.

"We are here to take you in for questioning regarding the murder of Lorenzo Alcazar." Lucky stated smugly, gauging Jason's reaction. Jason stood expressionless.

Cruz looked at the police cruiser behind him, "You obviously are not going to talk without your lawyer present."

"Nope."

"I suggest you call Ms. Miller and have her meet you at the station." Cruz added.

Jason rolled his eyes and checked out the front of the house, spotting Milo sitting lookout in his vehicle as required when Jason was there. When Jason was not at the house he was to stand post on the porch. As Jason walked out with the detectives, Milo exited his car and mumbled that he'd already called Diane for him as they walked past each other.

By the time they made it to the police station, Diane was waiting there for them, "You know this is harassment. You can't bring in my client every time there is a crime in this city!" Diane growled as Lucky, Jason and Cruz entered the interrogation room.

"One of his biggest enemies… uh competitors turns up dead, murdered… of course he will be the first suspect. He has motive and history with the victim." Lucky explained.

"Oh well please begin then detective, I have somewhere to be." Diane said motioning to the chair on the other side of the table.

"Can you account for your whereabouts between eleven and two last night?" Lucky asked.

Jason nodded, "I was home… with my wife." He answered, looking at Lucky who began pacing the room, obviously bothered by the answer.

"And surely she went to sleep in that time span, what time did Elizabeth go to sleep?" Cruz prompted.

Jason shook his head, "She didn't."

"So Elizabeth was awake with you till at least two a.m.?" Cruz asked unbelievably as Lucky remained silent in the line of questioning.

Jason looked up at Cruz without lifting his head, "Would you like a play-by-play?" he asked in a mocking tone.

"Son of a bitch! Then who did you fucking pay to kill him!" Lucky screamed, strode to the table and slapped his palm on the surface.

"Excuse me!" Diane growled. "My client is not on trial here! He obviously did not kill Mr. Alcazar and if we are done here I have a baby shower to attend." She stood from the table.

At Diane's words, Lucky turned and walked out of the interrogation room, slamming the door behind him. Diane jumped at the loud bang, "Was it something I said?" she sassed. "This was obviously a waste of everyone's time. Do some detective work for a change and go out and find the real person responsible for this." She gathered her bag but before she could get through the door Lucky returned. He whispered something in Cruz's ear.

"Really?" Cruz asked and Lucky answered with a nod. He turned back to Jason, "I need to know what is going on here." Jason just looked at him unsure what he was referring to. Cruz explained himself, "The body of a female was discovered late last night in an alley downtown, not far from the docks where Alcazar's body was found. She has been ID'ed as Samantha McCall."

Jason's face showed pure shock. A number of emotions rushed through him from pity to sadness to relief that he would not have to handle her or even kill her himself, something he didn't think he'd be able to do. He looked up at Diane and shrugged his shoulders.

"My client appears to be in shock that his ex-fiancé has been murdered." Diane stated.

"It seems that the time of death is in the same range of Alcazar's so he was not directly responsible." Cruz said.

Jason shook his head, "She was involved with Alcazar so…"

Diane interrupted him by raising her hand, "Don't say anything else Jason. My client is obviously not a suspect in either homicide and these questions are over. Let me know if you need his wife to corroborate his alibi."

"Oh we will." Lucky spat as he glared at Jason.

Elizabeth walked into the restaurant and was overwhelmed with pink balloons. The room was filled with pink frilly decorations. She instantly saw that Audrey had shown and was sitting with Monica. Emily had definitely gone overboard, especially since this was not her first pregnancy and technically a baby shower should only be thrown for your first child. Emily was persuasive though and promised to keep it small, which looking around the room she did not keep her end of the bargain.

She made her way around the room greeting the women that were all there, Monica and Audrey did not say much, probably because her Grams disapproved and Monica was probably just happy to be in the invite list, she didn't want to push her luck. Kelly, Laney, Robin and a few other women from the hospital were all sitting together, giggling and already drinking at the early hour. Emily fluttered around the room with Elizabeth, helping her move from table to table to greet the various women that were all there to celebrate the baby she was carrying.

"Emily, do you think you over-did it with the decorations?"

Emily looked around the room and shook her head, "I kept the guest list short but you said nothing about decorations or presents."

Presents? Elizabeth hadn't noticed them and looked around the room, spotting a large table stacked with dozens of various size boxes. "Oh-my-god, do I have to sit here and open them in front of everyone?"

Emily laughed, "Uh huh."

Twenty minutes later, Elizabeth had eaten a plate of food and Emily told her it was time to start opening the presents or she wouldn't have enough time. She took her seat in front of all the women, feeling completely self conscious, and began opening the gifts. She got everything from bottles to clothes and even some diapers. Elizabeth was convinced that Emily had bought every pink outfit they had in a 25 mile radius as well as every 'I love my aunt' and 'My aunt loves me' bib there was.

As she was opening her last gift Diane finally showed. It had been three hours since Jason left the house with Cruz and Lucky, she had been worried ever since. "Is everything ok?" Elizabeth asked when Diane approached her with two cards.

"Don't worry about a thing." Diane assured her with a wink. "I'm not good at these things so please forgive my gift."

"Oh Diane, you didn't have to get me anything." Elizabeth assured her and opened the first card. Instead of buying something for the baby there was a gift card to the store she'd run into Diane in when she was shopping with Emily. The value of the card was enough to buy the sweater she had bought in every color and size. There was a small note to buy herself some nice things after she had the baby because a mom deserves to be showered too.

Elizabeth's eyes filled with tears at the thought behind the card. Diane truly was a sweet person behind her caddy, hard exterior. "Oh you don't have to cry dear." Diane plainly expressed waving Elizabeth's emotion off. "Open the other card, it's better." Elizabeth looked at Diane hesitantly. She had already spent too much and certainly could not accept another gift from the woman. "It's not from me, it is from Sonny. Since he does not have a… wife to attend he still wanted to get something." Diane said. "He truly is a good gift giver if I may say so myself."

She pulled her bottom lip between her teeth as she tugged on the envelope. Everyone in the room watched closely as Elizabeth read the contents before gently tucking the card and associated papers back into the envelope.

"Well, what was it?" Emily questioned.

"If it's from Sonny then it's something really good." Elizabeth heard Robin whisper to the other women at her table.

"Well?" Emily repeated.

Elizabeth took a deep breath, "It's a uh… a honeymoon."