That night, lying in bed Marissa's thoughts drifted back to Bianca's confrontation with Reese in the Bistro. She stared up at the dark ceiling with Reese's impassioned words still ringing in her ears…
"I still love you…"
Marissa found herself thinking about Bianca and Reese. Her mind brought her back to a memory, she hadn't recalled before…
Bianca was waiting at Krystal's with the girls; waiting for Reese's arrival from Paris before Spring Break. Marissa was giving advice to be cautious, but Bianca was so determined that this would be an amicable divorce. They had argued and Marissa had thought that her brief employment as Bianca's divorce lawyer was already over… But it wasn't Reese that came but her lawyer; seeing the danger Marissa had called for the cavalry and Jackson had rode in to save the day…
In that moment Bianca had learnt to trust Marissa's judgement… and from there their friendship grew…
Now lying in bed Marissa wondered what would have happened if Reese had stepped on that plane and come to Pine Valley in person. Would she and Bianca have patched things up and got back together. Would Marissa have lost the love of her life before she had even found her?
What would her life be like without Bianca..? An image of JR's confident smirk flashed behind her eyes… the notion was too terrible to contemplate.
…But Marissa did have Bianca; she could feel the warmth of be body beside her on the bed and she could hear the soft regular sighs of her breathing…
No, Reese lost her chance long ago, just like Maggie, just like Sarah, just like all the other lovers that had come before.
With a sigh Marissa reached up to touch the heart-shaped pendant at her throat. She was the one to hold Bianca's heart and there was no way in hell she would ever think of giving it up.
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