"Emily! .... " he was shocked to see her standing there listening. "Don't do anything yet, I'll call you back." he continued and flipped closed his cell phone.

"You're going to have Jason taken out, aren't you?" she said as she came down the stairs and rubbed up against him as she passed by. "He's my brother, Zander .. how could you do that to me?" she scolded her husband for even thinking such an awful thing.

"Emily, listen to me .. this is business, it has nothing to do with family relations." Zander tried to make her see that what he was doing was protecting what was his.

"Screw the business, Zander! This is personal and I can't believe you were ready to take out my brother without a second thought!" she hollered back at him in return.

"Wait a minute, Jason wouldn't take a second thought about taking me out! But you're okay with that!"

"No I'm not okay with that ... Jason promised not to touch you, Zander .... he promised me he wouldn't!" she cried and fell down into the cushions of the couch as she sat down. Her face buried into her hands and she leaned over her knees like in pain. Tears began to fall from her eyes and she began to cry, cry out of disgust, cry out of disappointment and sadness that this was happening to her family.

"Wait you saw Jason? When?" Zander asked as he went to her and sat down with her on the couch.

"This morning before Damien nabbed me in the parking garage. I was there to see Jason about you!" she snipped back as she brushed off his consoling and got up from her seat.

"When were you going to tell me this, Emily? You know with one phone call world war 3 could start between Jason and I!" he barked back.

"I'm sorry .. in all the chaos this morning I forgot to tell you, okay?!" Her forgetfulness could of cost her, her brother's life, or worse, her husbands. Guilt of not telling Zander overcame her.

"What did Jason have to say?" Zander asked.

"I convinced him not to come after you .. at least not till all this mess is over with Sonny."

"Well thank you for going to bat for me, Em .. but I think I can handle Jason!" he replied thinking now his reputation with Jason was damaged at least some by Em going to battle for him.

"You know I didn't only do it for you Zander, I did it for me and Devon too! I don't know what I would do if we lost you!" tears began to trickle down her cheeks once more. She almost did lose him, not too long ago and she was never going to go through that again, whether he liked it or not, she was going to protect him if she could.

He went to her and pulled her to him, she stood up and wrapped her arms around him as she cried against his chest. "I'm sorry, Zander. I guess being a mob wife I am not." she sniffled back the tears, her voice muffled against his chest.

He wrapped his hands around her cheeks and lifted up her chin, her eyes red and puffy from crying, he wiped the tears away with his thumbs. "Now you listen to me .. I don't ever want to hear you say that, okay. It took alot of guts to go to Jason this morning. That was a very bold thing to do and I thank you for going there on behalf. Em, you are the best thing that has ever happened to me, you know that and I don't know where I'd be without you. This life isn't easy and I never said it would be, but I will protect you and keep you safe the best way I know how, but you have to tell me where you're going so I can protect you from another Damien Smith. Okay?" he said as he cracked a smile hoping she understood that if she had told him she was going to see Jason, he would of been more on his guard to protect her and Damien may have never found her in the parking garage.

She understood and agree the next time she'd go into town she'd tell him and not leave herself unprotected like she had this morning with Damien. "Okay, I promise but you have to promise me something too, Zander." she replied.

"What's that?"

"You have to promise me not to go after Jason, he promised me he wouldn't come after you, now I want a promise from you that you won't go after him."

He didn't answer her and flipped open his cell phone and dialed. She watched him wondering what he was planning on doing now.

"Thomas .. leave Morgan alone." .... "Yeah you heard me, leave Morgan be."....."Yeah this is a direct order, I don't want Morgan touched, you got that." Zander flipped closed the cell phone and stuck back in his pocket.

Emily stood up from her seat and went to him. She wrapped her arms around his waist and looked up at him. "Thank you for calling off your plans ..." she said as he pulled her into him.

"No, thank you for making me realize just what's important..." his words drifted off as he couldn't help but think of the day he'd get his chance to take down Jason Morgan.