AT CHEZ ROUGE:

"This is all you got," Roman said scoffing. "You gave up on your wife because of a piece of paper? You really think she would abandon her wedding vows and run off with this bastard who shot her step-father, tortured her uncle and God knows what other horrible things he's done to her family? After she finally got the wedding she wanted all these years? How do you even know that Sami wrote this letter?"

Roman turned to walk out and said, "I'm taking this down to the police station to get handwriting analysis done and check this piece of paper for fingerprints."

Tony eyed Roman nervously as he remembered handling the note with his bare hands when he forced Sami to write it back at Maison Blanche.

But to his relief, an unwitting Kate came to his rescue and stopped Roman in his tracks.

"Roman, did you talk to Sami before she left for the honeymoon? About that picture that showed up in her and Lucas's wedding video?" Kate asked delicately.

"The one of the two of them together the night John Black was shot," Roman said sighing. "No, I didn't have a chance to talk to her about that."

Lucas put his head in his hands listening to his mother explain the situation to Roman.

"Well, after the reception, Sami told Lucas that she and E.J. had slept together that night and E.J. told me the same thing," Kate said. "And this whole time she has been making Lucas think that he was the father of the baby she is carrying, she kept it a secret that the baby may be E.J.'s"

"But she helped us set him up with the police that night," Roman said. "SHE was the reason he went to the boathouse the night John was shot. She wouldn't sleep with him unless she had no choice. Oh God..."

AT MAISON BLANCHE:

Finally, E.J. gave into the moment and clutched the back of her head with his right hand wishing he could touch every last strand of golden hair on her head while his left hand reached out for her right one and found it.

Instinctively he clung to her wishing they could stay like that forever. He wished he could stay with Samantha in that bed forever.

But he knew they couldn't.

Sami knew that as well, but she just couldn't stop herself from clinging to him tighter and tighter. She needed this. A moment of peace in her chaotic life to just be held and feel safe for once. For the first time since E.J. held her like this so many times last summer.

It's not that she forgot that E.J. had been manipulating her then to get her to trust him and that many of those embraces were a result of his schemes. It's that in that moment when she really thought about it she realized so much of herself in them, she understood them, she had lived them, the way that she had always fought so hard and so many times fought dirty to get what she wanted, the man that she wanted, whatever the cost.

And she had been fighting for so long - fighting for Austin, fighting for Will, fighting against Lucas, fighting against her family, fighting against E.J. - fighting so hard for so long she realized that she had forgotten what it was like to love. Or perhaps, she thought, she never knew what it was to love.

A small part of her felt some guilt in his embrace. As she rested her weary head upon E.J.'s chest it was filled with fleeting thoughts about her vows to Lucas. But she was so tired. Tired of fighting E.J. Tired of fighting her feelings. So, so tired.

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