"Tony!" Sami exclaimed before covering her mouth in shock.

"Sami. Did you miss me?" Tony said with a smile.

"How did you...? What... what are you doing here? I thought you were in jail!" Sami said before contemplating just how the night could get worse.

"Oh I was. Thanks to YOU, of course. But I've paid my debt to society and am a free man now," Tony said while fishing around in the inside of his suit coat pocket.

"What do you want from me? Tony, you have to know, I'm sooo sorry for everything. I promise I won't tell anyone I saw you..."

Tony finally retrieves a black handgun from the inside of his coat and brandishes it.

"No, you won't tell anyone you saw me. And I agree you'll soon be quite sorry for every single trick and scheme and lie and backstab you've ever done."

"Tony, no! You can't do this."

"Can't I?" Tony said grinning from ear to ear.

"No. You can't," said a male voice, who walked in the mansion through the front door to Sami and Tony's surprise.

"This is no concern of yours, brother. In fact, if you had taken care of business, I wouldn't have to be cleaning up this mess of yours."

"E.J., what is he talking about? Was this whole thing just some scheme of yours and Tony's to get back at me for helping put Tony behind bars? Ugh. I think I'm going to be sick. I can't believe I..." Sami whispered with regret.

"You can't believe what, Samantha?" E.J. asked, his eyes squinting to try to see the truth Sami tried so hard to conceal.

"I can't believe I... ever thought you were my friend is all," Sami said throwing her hands in the air. "You know I shouldn't be surprised that you and Tony were working together all this time."

With that, Tony broke out into a fit of laughter.

"Sami, you must know that none of this has turned out as I intended." E.J. said before turning toward Tony. "Listen, Tony, there must be another way to handle this. Let me take care of this."

"Ha! Because you've done such a spectacular job taking care of this so far."

"Tony, I won't let you harm Samantha." E.J. said stepping in front of a frightened Sami.

"Won't let me, eh? That's funny. Because you know as well as I do that I have no intention of harming Samantha." Tony said to a defiant-looking E.J. and a confused Sami.

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