Switching Places
Chapter 23
When you have a tiger by the tail, never forget to watch for its claws.
Sonny sat down in his chair and stared at the woman across from him, she had been at the office earlier but he had missed her by heading straight back to the penthouse. "Would you please repeat what you just said?"
"I'm pregnant, about seven months. I arrived in town a few months ago, which was when I found out exactly who you were. I was planning on leaving but couldn't afford to at the time. I don't want anything from you, just your signature on these papers letting me arrange for the baby to be adopted." Said Sam.
Sonny looked at the woman he was certain was a con artist and said "What proof do you have that the baby is mine? Will you let me arrange for a DNA test?"
"The sooner the better, I just want this to be over with." She said waiting for what she knew was coming.
"Where are you staying?" He asked, hoping that Brenda hadn't seen the woman.
"At Kelly's, I was working there for a while but I managed to get a friend to loan me some money. There is a guy who lives there that I'm in love with. He wants us to get married, but I won't marry him and burden him with raising my child." She said looking down.
"What guy? What do you know about him?" Asked Sonny worried about what kind of environment his child was being born into.
"His name is Lucky Spencer; his family owns the diner. He has been very kind to me since I arrived." She said.
"I will arrange for someplace nicer for you to stay, for now I will ask my partner if you can stay next door. Do you know where General Hospital is, I will arrange for a test to be administered the day after tomorrow?"
"I meet your partner's girlfriend at Kelly's she doesn't really like me that much, I know someone else who works for you, maybe I can stay with them." She said wanting to avoid Carly but some part of her still wanting Jason.
"That won't work, if this is my child it will need protection from my enemies, so let me take care of this."
Sonny's mind was racing, he had to keep her close but he didn't want to lose Brenda over a one-night stand he barely remembered. Hopefully he could find a way to keep his kid and get rid of it's mother, she was already planning on putting the kid up for adoption, so she might take money to go away.
Calling Jason, he was hoping he would let him put the girl up at his place temporarily. Elizabeth was pretty easy to deal with; she was kind and would be willing to help. Getting voicemail, he told Jason he had needed to hide someone, and needed his help as soon he returned.
Carly and Monica got back with Michael in time for the holiday dinner, Pizza at the mansion and turkey and the fixings at the Brownstone. Entering, Carly saw Sam sitting with Lucky and gritting her teeth decided to ignore the pregnant woman. "Momma, can you fix up a plate for me to take to Alexis, with Nik out of town and the Quartermaines having pizza again, I think we should bring her something from here."
"Good idea. I have to work the evening shift. Have you meet Sam, she is Lucky's fiancee. They are moving into his mother's house." She said beaming at her nephew just grateful he seemed to have gotten over his obsession with Elizabeth.
Lucky just shifted in his seat, he had no real intention of moving her into his family home, just making her think so. Once Morgan returned from wherever he was, he planned on blowing the man's life out of the water. Elizabeth was the one he intended to move into the house where his mother had lived.
All Sam did was smile, there was nothing that Carly could do to her, there had been no charges filed against her as Angela Monroe and it seemed that was the only alias the blond knew. She was a bit confused about Jason and her relationship, from what Bobbie had been saying she got the feeling that she had something wrong.
As Elizabeth and Emily walked slowly along the path, Elizabeth talked to her friend about what the doctor had said. "You have options. Trust me you are going to live."
"You don't know that, Elizabeth. We have no way of knowing the future. So instead of being head cheerleader, tell me what you and my brother did last night."
"I thought you wanted to never hear a word about our sex life." She said laughing.
"Elizabeth you spent twelve hours away last night, I doubt you had sex all that time." Then looking at her friend, she said "I really don't want to know, I mean there are some things I just don't want to know."
Then ten minutes later she sighed and said "Is it wrong that I envy you that? I mean not like that, but that I haven't found a guy like that? Does that make any sense?"
"I have spent the last six months dealing with Carly; of course you make sense."
"Elizabeth Webber did you just compare me to Carly?"
"Morgan." She reminded her sister-in-law.
"That's right you are now my sister so tell me you didn't just compare me to the blond from hell."
"Okay, I did not just compare you to the blond from hell. Now lets get back before Francis melts in this hot sun." They turned to look at the bodyguard still dressed in a suit as they walked along the strip.
Sonny was trying to find a way out of this, but if this was his kid, he needed to find a way to keep it close. Sam had stated that she wanted to get married before her child was born but couldn't because of the baby. If he could arrange for her to marry someone else, she might be stopped from impulsively marrying Spencer if she decided she wanted more money from him.
Sweating as he answered the door to Taggert, he said to the detective. "Today is Thanksgiving; even you must take a day off once in a while."
"I am looking for your sister. Mike claims to not know where she is and she checked out of the hotel yesterday. Is she staying here?"
"No, she isn't. Why are you looking for my sister?" He asked worried that Taggert was trying to pin something on her in the hopes she would spill something about him.
"I need to speak to her about the murder of Luis Alcazar, have her call me if you talk to her."
Sonny closed the door, as if he didn't have enough to worry about now he had to look into his sister's location the night that Alcazar took a header off the balcony. Calling the number for Sam he decided to deal with the woman while Brenda was at the Quartermaines.
Elizabeth kissed Jason as they entered their suite, then pushed him on the sofa and climbed into his lap. "You are brilliant, you do know that don't you? I am so glad you convinced her to stay with us."
"We have guards outside the doors and a nurse living there, the family won't be happy but I think they will accept it. Do you know when she is planning on telling them about being sick?"
"She wants to do so after the holidays. I agreed to keep quiet until then. She is looking for an oncologist there that she feels comfortable with."
"Elizabeth, Carly said she lived in the timeline she came from, right?"
"It was apparently a close call, but she makes it. We are not going to lose her, if I have to call and blackmail my dad into coming home to treat her. I refuse to lose Emily." She said firmly.
"We had better join her for dinner, I can't believe we are eating a traditional holiday dinner in a Casino."
"Vegas was your idea, remember. I do have to say that I like it, though." She said with a smile as she glanced at the their matching rings. "However, you are the one who is going to tell Carly we are already married."
"Can't we just send her a message, hire a skywriter, maybe?" He asked as he kissed her before lifting her from his lap, "Let's go eat this dinner Emily ordered. I wonder what happened to the one that Sonny arranged for the two of you in Arizona."
After talking to Sam, Sonny made a decision. The woman agreed to give up the child after it was born, until then she would agree to stop seeing Spencer and move into the Towers, now all he had to do was tell Jason and Elizabeth about their house guest.
Grabbing his key, he told the brunette to follow him and went out into the hall. Trying to open the door he turned and asked Johnny when Jason changed his locks?
Sam tried to keep the smile under control; Jason the hottie Morgan, she could deal with living with him, and maybe he would be willing to help her deal with her hormone problem.
"When Carly redecorated the apartment. We don't have a key either." He told the mobster, who was annoyed, Jason had always given him a key, now what was he going to do with Sam, Brenda should be arriving in about twenty minutes.
"Could you pick the lock?" He asked Johnny, who reluctantly did so. When they entered the penthouse, all Johnny could think was Jason was going to be pissed at them entering while he was gone, but when he figured out what was going on. He made plans to be elsewhere when Jason found out that Sonny had offered up Elizabeth and his home to a strange woman claiming to be carrying Sonny's kid.
Sam smiled to herself as she went down the elevator followed by the guard named Milo, she was relieved to find out she was staying with Morgan. The place was a little plain, and there were some weird paintings that had to go, they made her nauseous, but she would take care of that when she got back.
Sonny was happy that she had accepted his offer, now he just had to deal with Brenda and making sure that she didn't learn about the baby. When she arrived she asked what had happened the day before with the brunette.
"She is pregnant; the father is in my organization, I need to handle it discreetly so I have her staying with Jason for protection."
"Whose kid is it?" She asked not really caring but hoping that she didn't have her claws into anyone she knew. "Let me guess it is yours. That is why she is staying with Jason." She laughed but not really believing it.
Sonny was sweating, and then looking at the sonogram the woman had handed him, said "No, the baby is Jason's. I just want it kept quiet until he has a chance to tell Elizabeth."
Brenda was stunned, what a piece of work, then thinking about it, sneered internally as she realized she had hit the nail on the head. The kid was Sonny's and he was trying to pawn it off on Jason so that he could go back to the blond harpy he still loved.
Jason and Elizabeth were escorting a tired Emily into the elevator, telling Francis to take the night off, it was about one in the morning and they were exhausted. "So Mrs. Morgan, after I have Emily in the house, do I have to carry you across the threshold?"
"Could the two of you hold off on that kind of behavior for at least five minutes, I am too tired to throw up." She teased. After an entire flight of Jason and Elizabeth restraining themselves for her, she knew that they were eager to go straight to bed.
When Max saw them exiting the elevator, he told Jason "Sonny needs to see you immediately, he has been waiting up for you all night. Emily it's nice to see you and welcome back all of you."
Jason wanted to tell the guard that Sonny could wait, but decided to get it over so that he could take his time leaving the penthouse in the morning. After Elizabeth unlocked the door, she saw she had left the light on in the living room when she left.
"Jason, I will get Emily settled, you go and deal with Sonny." She said as she helped her friend upstairs to the guestroom.
"Elizabeth, could you please stay in here until I get ready for bed? Just in case." Asked Emily. When she had tucked her friend into bed, Elizabeth saw that the door to her room was closed, she would have sworn that she had left it open when she left for Arizona, maybe Sonny had been there for some reason.
Walking back down the stairs, she sat down on the sofa and spun her wedding ring around on her finger, smiling at the idea of being Elizabeth Morgan, she was married to the man of her dreams. The man who had given her the wind. Looking up on the mantle at the painting she froze, then realized what had seemed different, the walls were bare, her paintings were gone.
Starting to get upset, she went out the door and knocked on Sonny's repeatedly ignoring Max who was asking what was wrong. Hearing the arguing insides, she turned to Max and said "I need Jason, now. Max open the door.
Jason waited for Sonny to come downstairs and when he finally came down five minutes later, he swore to himself that next time he would just make the man wait until morning. "What is going on?"
"I need your help; I have a mess for you to take care of. There is a woman claiming I am the father of her kid. There is a good chance it's true, but Brenda has already meet her so you have to help me keep my marriage intact, I need you to say the baby is yours. Just tell Elizabeth she will understand. Tell her it happened before you got together."
Jason could see that Sonny was cycling into an episode. "Sonny I can't."
"You have to; I already told Brenda that the kid is yours."
"Then tell her the truth, I will not claim this kid. You need to deal with this, start with telling Brenda that you want a real marriage, then about the kid."
"I can't I won't lose her to that blond Kangaroo. Jason, Sam wants to get married and I can't marry her, she is threatening to marry Spencer. There is no way I will allow Lucky Spencer to raise my kid."
"Sonny, I agree, Spencer won't do, but I don't understand how me saying the kid is mine helps you."
"Marry her, it's just for a few months, until the kid is born. She is going to take money and leave town, you can get a divorce and I can see my kid."
Jason sat down trying to get control of his temper, when Sonny was like this, only cold reasoning could reach him. "No, I won't do it. You need to face facts; you are going to be a father. I will not marry this woman. Just offer her money until the kid comes and then get custody of the baby."
"She wants to get married, I am already married, and I need you to take care of this for me so Spencer can't try and claim my kid."
"I can't. Sonny you need to think this through, think what you are asking me to do, you want me to marry some woman so that you can get your kid. Just how do you think that will effect my family and me?"
"You hate the Quartermaines, why do you care. As for you, so it is a bump in your relationship, Elizabeth will understand in the end. Just tell her that things happened, but that you want to help the mother of your child. That afterwards, you will be free to be with her."
"What is Elizabeth supposed to do in the meantime?" Mocked Jason. "Stay with her grandmother, listen to everyone in this town tell her that she was a fool to trust me. I won't lose her for something like this."
"You work for me, you are supposed to make sure that things run smoothly. I can't believe you won't take care of this for me. What kind of friend are you? Have you thought about what this will do to Michael?"
Hearing a banging at the door, Jason went over to it and said "Why not look at it the other way around, what kind of friend asks a man to do this?" As he went towards the door, he found a crying Elizabeth in his arms,
"Jason, the paintings are gone, The Wind is gone, it's no longer on the mantle."
"Are you sure that Carly didn't come over and move it for some reason." He asked as he held her trying to get her trembling under control.
"She doesn't have a key. After we changed the locks I never gave her one, you and I are the only ones who have one."
"Jason, that is another things, you were supposed to give me a key to your place, I had to have Johnny pick the lock earlier so that I could show Sam around."
"Why would you be showing Sam around?" Asked Elizabeth turning to look at Sonny.
"She is going to be staying with you until the baby is born Jason just agreed."
Elizabeth knew from the way that Jason stiffened that he was furious but she was just as angry. She knew that there was no way he would have let that woman stay with them. "Really, well she will just have to move over here, since Emily will be staying in the guestroom."
"Can't Emily stay at the Quartermaines when she arrives?" Sonny smiled at Elizabeth, she realized he had no idea that she was pissed.
"Since she is currently sleeping in our guestroom, no. Sonny, when Sam arrives tomorrow just have her stay here, there is plenty of room."
"She is already at your place; I made sure she could get in earlier." Sonny said not understanding why Jason was cursing. "Jason, you really need to tell Elizabeth about the baby, I'm sorry I tried to keep it a secret but you can't keep it quiet any longer."
Secrets come out to protect the guilty not the innocent.
Chapter 24
Elizabeth could feel the anger coming off of Jason, and decided enough was enough. "Excuse me." She said and walked up the stairs to the bedroom, opening the doors until she found the correct one. Waking the beauty sleeping there she ordered her downstairs.
"Now that Brenda is here, Sonny tell me how Jason is involved with this baby."
"Elizabeth, I know this is hard to understand but you were not together with Jason, things happen." He said as he felt the sweat running down his forehead.
"You mean like you sleeping with a woman after Alexis left you at the hotel and her getting pregnant. You mean like you expecting Jason to own up to your kid. Is that why you were so agreeable with my using the airplane, I thought it was because you were trying to keep Brenda from divorcing you."
"Sonny, want to keep spinning you story, want to keep telling Elizabeth how you are not this kids' father. She knows, I know. Sam McCall is a two-bit con woman and we have known she is in town for a while. We were waiting until we got proof that the kid wasn't yours. I had enough on her so that she would NEVER get custody of this kid, but guess what, you win."
"She can stay at the penthouse, buy it from me and we will move out. From now on, we are partners, nothing more. By the way congratulate me, Elizabeth and I got married yesterday."
Jason took Elizabeth by the hand and went out the penthouse, slamming the door. As they entered their home, Elizabeth asked Max to see if he could find her paintings. "Certainly Mis-Mrs. Morgan."
Walking up the stairs, Elizabeth walked into their bedroom, getting even more pissed at what she saw, the woman was sleeping in her bed, naked. Turning on the light, she went over to try and wake the brunette. She had been just planning on getting some clothes for the cold weather but seeing the other woman naked in her bed was the last straw. Sam just rolled over on her side, ignoring her.
Turning up the ringer for the bedside phone, she called it using her cell. She watched as the woman in the bed, woke up grumbling and reached over and hit the talk button twice, hanging up on the person calling. She rang the number again. Same response. When it happened a third time she stood against the heavy wood dresser and said "You might want to get up, I will keep ringing until you do."
Sam turned over and said "Elizabeth, what are you doing here?"
"That should be my question, but I think I would be asking "What the hell are you doing naked in MY BED AND IN MY PENTHOUSE? Get dressed and get downstairs, you had better have a damn good answer to my questions."
"Can you please come back in the morning, I'm pregnant and really tired." She said rolling over and pulling the pillow over her head.
Elizabeth reached over and grabbed her pillow at the same time she pulled the top sheet and blanket off the bed. "NOW!"
"Do you have any idea who the father of my kid is, there is no way he would let you talk to me this way." She said as she sat up and leaned on her arms. Sonny had asked her to let everyone think his partner was the kid's father and she was more than agreeable to that.
"I really don't give a damn, not when you are pissing me off. Now if you don't want to spend the rest of the night in jail for trespassing, move it, get dressed and get downstairs. "
When the woman stomped down the stairs she could hear arguing in the hall, seeing her hottie standing there talking with Sonny's wife, she smiled.
"I have no idea what you are so please about, now where is our artwork?" asked Elizabeth
"Those tacky things, I had the guard take them to the incinerator." yawned Sam
"You had better hope he didn't listen to you." Said Jason as he entered the penthouse and started to slam the door only for Brenda to enter. Seeing the devastated look on his wife's face, Jason just gathered her into his arms and said "I will have Max check. Stay here, Brenda could you find a way to leave here please."
"No." was all the model said as she sat down and glared at the woman in the middle of this mess.
"Look, I'm pregnant and those paintings were making me sick, Sonny told me to make myself comfortable, that this was to be my new home. How was I to know that you lived here?" she shrugged.
"You knew that I was seeing someone who worked for Sonny, you also have seen me with Jason. Sam, you need to pack your things and move next door because the only way you are staying here is if I don't."
"Then move out, I have no intention of leaving." She said sitting down on the sofa.
Brenda could not believe the gall of this woman, just who did she think she was? "Why not, this place belongs to Jason, not you?"
"Since he is the father of my kid, where else would I be. I'm sorry Elizabeth, you were so nice to me, and I hated to tell you the truth. However I want my kid to know it's dad and for him to be legitimate, unlike I was. Sonny promised to convince Jason to marry me." Sam had been planning on using this against Carly but she knew that softhearted Elizabeth would be an easy con.
"That it mighty interesting, but there are a few things standing in your way." Said Elizabeth as Emily walked down the stairs having been woken up by all the noise; she had stayed hidden until the woman had tried to claim that Jason was her kid's father. "The first is the father's marriage. Unless he wants to be a bigamist. Then there is the fact that this is a community property state and I think I want to keep this place when we get a divorce. Brenda, you might want to consider taking Sonny's place as well. Then there is the fact that you are a liar and I know it, I know all about you, Sam, or should I call you Angela, or maybe Livvie, or how about Tessa."
Sam paled and sat down; "I have no idea what you are talking about."
"Really the police in Alabama were rather eager to fill in the private detective on how you set fire to your parents house when you fled, your cons with your father, I even know about Danny. Then there is the case in New York as well as the one in Belize, the prisons down there aren't very nice are they?"
Sam saw the smile on her face and said "That doesn't change who the father of my kid is."
"You are correct; it doesn't change the fact you slept with Sonny." Elizabeth walked over and picked up her cell, hating what she was about to do, but she had to do it. Calling Johnny she asked if he could wake up Francis and come to the penthouse, they had some excess baggage that needed moved.
Brenda tried to keep from letting them see her laughter, as Sonny burst into the room along with Jason who was holding a file. "I gather Jason told you about Sam." mocked Elizabeth, "Going to ask how she could betray you, yet you have no problem betraying Jason or I.
Sonny hustled the woman over to the side where he was questioning her about her lies. Jason came over and told Elizabeth that Milo had moved her paintings to one of the storage rooms, they were safe and would be taken to the studio for safe keeping until they found a new place to live. He had no intention of staying here any longer than he had to.
Johnny and Francis walked in thirty minutes later, Jason telling them to take Sam to a safe house that they would deal with her tomorrow. Then gathering up Emily, Max carried her down to the waiting car while Elizabeth and Brenda walked with them. Jason turned to Sonny and said "I can't believe you thought this would be acceptable, you might want to remember we are partners and friends that I don't live just to do your bidding."
"I took care of her, didn't I? What was I supposed to do when she showed up here claiming it was my kid, I couldn't lose Brenda, not again. So what was I supposed to do?"
"Realize that you would have cost me Elizabeth, and stopped being such a selfish ass, that there is more here than just your wants and needs now if you will excuse me, I have to go with my wife and sister to the hotel."
"Why can't you just stay here, Sam is gone."
"That woman was in our bed, naked. My guess is that Elizabeth doesn't want to return until this place has been scrubbed and our sheets burned. Sonny, don't ever do anything like this again, or I will take Elizabeth and we will be on the first plane out of here. Got it?"
Sonny watched as Brenda got off the elevator and Jason stalked on. "You really screwed this up, didn't you?"
"Brenda you have no idea what is going on." He said walking back into his penthouse.
"I do, and I have made a decision, we are over as soon as we get our divorce. I have no idea who you are, do you even know?" With that she walked into her room and closed the door.
First thing the next morning, Jason called a cleaning service and arranged for them to clean the penthouse,
He was still angry with what Sonny had done and wanted to avoid the man. Deciding that he should get some new sheets, he could not believe the crowds in Wyndhams.
"JASE!" He heard, turning he saw Carly in the middle of the mess, fighting her way towards him. "Why are you out shopping the day after Thanksgiving? You hate crowds."
"Come with me." He said leading her outside and then down to the nearest coffee shop. After he finished telling her all that had happened in regards to Sam and Emily, she just sat there stunned at the gall on her ex-husband.
"Wow, how is Elizabeth dealing with this? I mean her paintings?" Carly asked as they entered the mall again.
"She is furious, and refusing to move back to the penthouse until after it has been cleaned. There is something else I have to tell you." He said looking down to hide his grin.
"What?" She demanded. "Did Sonny ask you to kill Jax while he was at it?"
"No, Elizabeth and I got married two days ago." Everyone in the immediate area could hear the blond squealing yes. Seeing most of their grins, she said "He got married, finally."
Jason just blushed, as Carly created a huge scene as she alternated between hugging him and yelling at him for not letting her plan the wedding. When she had finally tired some, he said "Elizabeth is going to be at Kelly's, ask her about planning a reception." Then quickly escaped knowing his new wife was going to want to kill him.
Monica walked into the living room, asking "Who called a family meeting?"
Skye just shrugged as AJ and Alan joined them along with the newest person living in the house. When Edward blustered in along with Ned, they just looked at each other and realized that it had to have been Lila. When she entered along with Elizabeth, they were truly confused.
"Now my dear sweet family, we have some announcements. Elizabeth and Jason got married a few days ago." Elizabeth turned and stared at the elderly woman, "My dear, it's better they hear it like this, the shock will keep them in line better as a group."
After getting best wishes and an are you pregnant from Edward, Elizabeth just replied, Thanks, we wanted to let everyone know before you heard it from anyone else, but that isn't the only announcement, and no I am not pregnant."
"However if they keep having sex as much as they are, it is only a matter of time." Said the brunette standing in the door as she grinned impishly at her best friend who was blushing.
By the time all the Emily's and all the hugs and introductions were over, Emily was exhausted and sat down saying "I still get a little tired of standing, so I have to sit down."
"Are you home for good, brat?" Asked AJ as he hugged her.
"I am finished at rehab, but I am thinking of starting college so who knows?" She said smiling. "However I mean home as in Port Charles, the penthouse at least until after Christmas. Elizabeth and I have a lot of plans and we are going to be busy with them. Jason has agreed that you can come to see me there, I will stop over here when I can."
"That poor excuse for a grandson will just tell his thugs in the lobby to keep us away; we will never see you." Blustered Edward even as he flushed with pleasure at the idea of finally seeing where Jason lived.
"Not unless you piss off Elizabeth and I. Now we have to meet Nik and Lucky for a late lunch, Mom may I come over for dinner?"
"Emily, you know you don't even have to ask."
Jason walked onto the docks, seeing Spencer he could not help wondering why he would agree to marry Sam, he heard him talking to Scott Baldwin on the phone and laughed at his version of events. Calling over he told Marco what was going on and to let Sonny know.
Walking up to the studio, he saw that Max had arranged for Elizabeth's paintings to be placed there, calling Benny over, he had him check for even the slightest hint of a tear. "Thanks Benny, I need to arrange for them to be reframed, then hung in our penthouse."
Alexis was growing beyond bored, she had been reduced to reading a romance novel that they poor candy striper had brought her. "May we come in?" She heard. Looking up she saw the Jones girls and Mac standing in the doorway.
"Sure. However I can't imagine why you would want to be visiting, shouldn't you be out shopping today?"
Seeing Mac frantically shaking his head no, she laughed as the two teenagers sat down. "We are here to see about being candy stripers again, Mrs. Hardy is supposed to arrange for someone to bring our uniforms here. We also have a question to ask you."
"What would that be?" She asked Georgie who looked so serious.
"How would you like to get out of here?"
"Do you have some sort of magic wand; otherwise I am stuck here."
"No, but dad said that Dr. Meadows won't let you leave unless you have medical supervision and someone to help you with things."
"I know but I haven't been able to find a nurse that will work with what I need."
"We have a plan, you are moving into the Brownstone. Bobbie is a nurse, Carly pretended to go to nursing school and we are going to stay with you after school to run errands. Plus Taggert lives there, and so does another nurse who works at GH."
"You have a plan?" She said looking at Mac, who didn't even try to hide his complicity in it.
"The girls came up with part of it, but we think that you need to get out of here. You also have to start planning your nursery, from what I understood you could go into labor early."
Nik entered Kelly's and saw Elizabeth talking to Mike and Penny. Greeting his friend, he asked what was up and why the urgency. "I have two things you need to hear from me." She said trying not to grin as Emily stood in the doorway to the upstairs motioning for her to hurry up.
"Would one of them be how your boyfriend got another woman pregnant and abandoned her?" said a sneering Lucky. "She agrees to marry me and goes missing, wonder why?"
Elizabeth turned to the man standing in the doorway and said "First of all, she isn't missing, and she took Sonny up on his offer of one of his house. Agreeing to marry you was part of a con she was trying to pull. The baby is Sonny's, Lucky. Not Jason's."
"Sonny is going to be a father?" Asked Mike from behind the counter.
Seeing the hurt look on his face, Elizabeth told the man "He only learned about it yesterday evening and there are extenuating circumstances. Sam McCall is a con woman who has a habit of marrying rich men, then they tend to die. Sonny is looking more into her background. She is a user, we have known since she came to town what she was up to."
"Elizabeth, are you sure?" Asked Nik. "WE had her over at the house for Thanksgiving, should we be worried?"
"This is all some trick on Morgan's part." Said Lucky even as he faced the truth.
"No, it isn't. Lucky you need to let this go there is something else I need to tell you. What I invited you over for, Emily was a witness as Jason and I got married."
There was silence in the room at first, and then Mike and Penny offered their congratulations, followed by Nik.
"So how was Emily?" Asked Nik. He had tried to go and visit but she had always told him not to come.
"Just fine, in fact, I decided to come home for the holidays." Said the woman in question from behind the Prince.
Lucky was still frozen at the words got married. Seeing Emily roused him, so he hugged her on automatic pilot and left quickly. The other three ate lunch together as Nik told them that Gia and he had broken off their engagement.