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The Claus House; Jeff, Leah,
& Paige's Home
 
Leah
moves up to the fireplace mantel in the living room of the house that she has
lived in for years with Jeff
and Paige.
She picks up a picture of her, Jeff, and Paige and feels her heart break inside
her chest. She can't believe that Victoria
admitted to her, and the entire Robertson family, that she and Jeff have been
sleeping together for months.
"We were so happy that day, weren't
we?" Jeff asks as he moves into the living room as Leah puts the picture
frame back down on the mantel.
She turns and moves to the bar to pour
herself a scotch. She takes a sip of it.
"Look, I get that you're
pissed at me," Jeff sighs back to her. "But giving me the silent treatment,
it's not going to solve anything, is it?"
"What do you want
me to say, exactly?" Leah asks him without turning to look at him. "You've
been sleeping with the woman who has been out to get me for months; you've been
lying to me about it for months, and the entire truth was exposed in the most
public of fashions! So, again, what do you want me to say?"
Jeff
shrugs back at her. "I don't know," he admits to her. "All I now
Leah, is that nothing will get settled without us talking about it."
Leah turns to him and faces him, finally. "Okay, fine. What do you want,
Jeff? Are you here because you want us to try to patch things up? Are you here
to ask for forgiveness?"
"No, I don't think I am," Jeff
admits to her. "I…I've grown to like my time with Victoria, and if I
am honest with you, I…I think I might have a future with her," he reveals
to her as Leah's mouth opens in shock and awe.
Robertson Enterprises
Donovan
sits at his desk at Robertson Enterprises. He is looking at some of the early
figures for RELax launch and he is so impressed. He can't wait to share the good
news with Trenyce,
who has been in the hospital following being attacked by Dawn, because she was
a key player in the success of the designing of some of the products.
"Trey
is going to be over the moon with these numbers," Donovan smirks to himself
as he closes the file. "And thank God she will make a full recovery. We all
would have been a mess if anything more serious had happened to her."
He looks at his phone and opens it. He goes to his photos and looks at a picture
of him and Sergio from a few weeks earlier. He runs his hand over Sergio's
face and smiles at the sight.
"Trenyce's experience has made me realize
that I have to do whatever I can to make things right between us," he whispers
to himself. He knows that Sergio is still upset with him because he learned that
Donovan and Lukas
slept together during the custody case; the truth is, Lukas and Donovan just got
caught up in the moment of having a successful moment in court, but Donovan understands
that Sergio is upset because Donovan didn't tell him right away. "I think
I have an idea on how I can start by making things right."
He dials
a number into his phone. "It's Donovan Moretti calling," he says when
someone answers. "I need your help with a surprise for someone very special,"
he explains as he gets a grin on his face.
***
Meanwhile, in the CEO's office, Robin
sits on one of the sofa's and is looking at her phone. She, like Donovan, is thrilled
by how well the launch went. She knows that she has been a part of many launches
that haven't been nearly as successful, so she is thrilled that this one went
off, mostly, without a hitch. She can't help but wonder how Leah is handling the
fact that Jeff and Victoria have been sleeping together.
She opens her
phone and finds herself sending her half-sister a message. "Thinking about
you; let me know what I can do to help. Love you, xo."
She knows
that the message will probably fall on deaf ears, but she knows that she has to,
at least, let Leah know that she is there for her.
She sighs to herself
realizing that she, should, reach out to Cory
as well. While she has told him that she needs time to get over his betrayal with
Penny,
she knows that he has been going through a difficult time with Sophie's
ordeal at the cabin, and her miscarriage.
She finds herself dialing his
number. "Voicemail," she sighs to herself as she listens to his greeting.
"Cory…it's me…I…I just wanted to reach out and see how you're
doing; I…I heard about Sophie and hope that she, and you, are doing okay.
Alright…that ….that was all…"
She hangs up the phone
and shakes her head. "That was a terrible message," she says, questioning
whether or not she should have even bothered.
The Riverside Delicatessen
  
"You know, I haven't been here in ages," Cassie
tells Jacob
as they sit across from one another in the delicatessen. Cassie has ordered herself
a black forest ham and swiss sandwich while Jacob has a corned beef and dill pickles
sandwich. "For a while, I thought maybe they went under."
"Based
on the renovations, I'd say they took some time to revamp the space and the menu,"
Jacob replies to her before he takes a bite of the sandwich. "But to be honest,
they still have the best sandwiches in town."
Cassie chuckles back
to him. "I am not sure about the pickles on yours, but I will take your word
for it."
"You don't want a pickle?" Jacob asks her playfully
as he pulls one of the pickles out from his sandwich and tries to feed it to her.
Cassie giggles back to him. "You know I only liked pickles when I was
pregnant with our son," she tells him.
"I know," Jacob
nods back to her. "I wish I had been around more when you were pregnant."
Cassie shrugs back to him. "That was a difficult time for me," she
admits to him. "I had my mental break and tried to kill you, and Paige,"
she recounts their ordeal in Banff, Canada. "That seems like a lifetime ago."
"That's because it was," Jacob tells her. "And you're a different
woman now. You took the time to get better, and now, we are a beautiful family."
"That we are," she says as she leans over and kisses him on the
lips.
They part lips when they hear the door open and they happen to see
Stephanie
standing there, who has just come in for lunch. Stephanie sighs heavily and rolls
her eyes at the sight before she quickly moves up to the cashier to place her
order.
"I wish there was some place in this damn town I could escape
them," Stephanie whispers to herself after she places her order, before she
can't help herself and look back at the happy couple. It makes her blood boil
seeing Jacob and Cassie so happy as she knows that Cassie is a backstabbing bitch;
Stephanie hates that she is threatening to expose her transition to keep Jacob.
"If only he knew…if only…"
The Richardson Estate;
Meggan, Donovan, & Logan's Home
 
Logan
moves to the bar in the lavish living room of his family home and pours a double
vodka soda. He takes a hearty sip of it and shakes his head at the taste of the
double. The last couple of weeks he had been trying to cut back on how much alcohol
he has been consuming, but today is a day that he has felt like he needed a drink.
He is still reeling from the fact that Sophie was pregnant with his child when
she fell at the cabin; the time that she spent outside caused her to lose the
baby. The deepest issue, in his mind, is that Sophie left the cabin because of
Meggan's
drinking. Had Meggan not been drinking so heavily, Sophie wouldn't have left and
she wouldn't have lost the baby.
"It's early to have a drink in your
hand," Logan's mother announces as she moves into the living room and sees
her son at the bar.
"That's rich coming from you," Logan turns
to face Meggan. "It's late for you not to have a drink in your hand."
Meggan sighs back to him. "I wish that you would understand that I don't
have a problem with alcohol," she reminds him of their last conversation.
"Do I like to drink, yes, by all means, but a problem…?"
"The
last time you were drinking," Logan glares back at her with intent. "You
ran over Noah
and thought you killed him. That made you get sober, remember?"
"How
could I forget?" Meggan huffs back to him. "The fact that Frederick
faked Bryce's
death to help me get sober is sick and twisted."
"But it worked,"
Logan replies to her. "You were sober for years!"
"Yes,
and then I learned about my father's deception! Don't educate me on my own past,
Logan. I know what I've been through!"
"Then this ordeal should
help you get sober," Logan spits back at her. "Because my child is dead
because of you! So please, mother, book yourself into Betty Ford any day now,
because we both know that you need it!"
The Calimo Mansion
 
Max
moves up to the door that leads into Sophie's bedroom. In his hands he is holding
a bouquet of flowers as he wants to show he that he is sorry for the ordeal that
she went through at the Calimo cabin. Still, he can't help but recall how he overheard
Stephanie reveal to a nurse that Sophie miscarried, which means, that she was
pregnant with another's man.
"Come in," he can hear after he
knocks on her door, so he opens the door and enters the bedroom. "Max, hi."
Sophie says as she leans up on her bed.
"Hey," he replies to
her as he passes her the flowers. "These are for you."
"Awe,
thank you," she stands up and collects the flowers from him. "They are
beautiful, thank you."
"Of course, I thought it was the least
I could do after I heard what happened. How are you feeling?"
"I
am okay," she sighs back to him. "I will get there one day."
Max uneasily nods back to her as she places the flowers on her desk. "I…I
know, Sophie. You don't have to beat around the bush with me."
Sophie
turns back to him with an arched eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"I
know," he replies to her again. "About the baby, I mean. I am sorry
that you lost your child."
"Oh."
"I also know
that I couldn't have been the father."
"Max…"
"You don't owe me any explanations," he quickly tells her. "We
weren't ever that serious, I guess."
"It's not that at all,"
Sophie replies to him quickly. "I was drunk at the time and it…it just
happened. I…I really liked you, you know that."
"And I
liked you too," he tells her. "I know that I was busy trying to get
custody of my son but I thought…well, it doesn't matter."
"I
am so sorry, Max."
"Can I ask you something?"
"Sure?"
"Who was the father? Who was going to be the Dad to your baby?"
he asks her quickly.
Sophie gulps heavily back to him. "Logan,"
she admits to him. "We are friends, nothing more, Max."
"Obviously
that's not true," Max replies to her. "Look, I wanted to come make sure
that you were okay and to give you the flowers, and I've done, so…so I'm
going to go. But I hope that you get better soon, Sophie. I really mean that."
"Thank you," Sophie says as she feels her eyes swell with water.
The last thing she ever wanted to do was hurt Max, and she can tell that she has
done that. She just hopes that, one day, he will be able to forgive her.
The
Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino
 
"Maybe
now you will understand why I have been pressing you to have no interest in that
woman," Frederick nervously chuckles over to Bryce as they sit across from
one another in the restaurant with some drinks on the table. Bryce has just filled
his grandfather in on the fact that Victoria, Bryce's former wife, and Jeff, Bryce's
father, are sleeping together. Frederick, for months, had been telling Bryce to
find another woman and to let Victoria go; for a brief moment, Frederick thought
that Bryce had moved on with Isabelle,
but she ended up leaving town.
"I just can't wrap my head around
the fact that my father is sleeping with my wife," Bryce sighs back to him.
"This all seems surreal to me."
"That woman is a piece
of trash," Frederick replies to him quickly. "You can do much better,
Bryce."
"That might be true, but it doesn't take away that this
hurts like hell."
"In time you will get over this and you will
see that this was for the best," Frederick replies to him. "You're a
young, vital, attractive man, you could have any woman you wanted."
Bryce
shakes his head back to him as he realizes that Frederick isn't really listening
to how he is feeling. The fact is, he had been trying to get Victoria back for
months, and the entire time she was sleeping with his father. On top of that,
Bryce is wondering why he was even trying to help his family if this is the type
of behaviour that goes on. He knows that he helped Dominick
and Leah get Felicia
away from Frederick; he hasn't heard of where they are, but he wonders if helping
them was the right thing to do after all.
"I guess you're right,"
Bryce finally replies to him. "This is all so twisted."
"Ah,
excuse me for a moment, I need to take this call," Frederick tells him as
his phone starts to ring, and he leaves the table and moves to a more private
area.
"Frederick Richardson," he says into his phone. "Oh
really? That's interesting, thank you for the update. I'll be in touch."
He hangs up the phone and gets a grin on his. "Dominick took Felicia
to Italy," he whispers to himself. "Now the question is, where in Italy
did they go?"
The Claus House; Jeff, Leah, & Paige's Home
"You want to have a future with
Victoria?" a shocked Leah gasps back at him. "What the hell are you
even talking about? Where is this coming from?"
"Come on, Leah,"
Jeff shrugs back to her. "You know damn well that we haven't been close in
months. Between your hatred for Victoria and always working with your family to
help Felicia, we have barely spent any time together, yet alone have sex."
"And so you turned to Victoria, of all people? You couldn't have talked
to me about it?"
"I don't know what to say," Jeff tells
her. "I never meant for any of this to happen, but it did, and now here we
are."
Leah slaps him hard across the face. "That's for sleeping
with another woman behind my back," she spits at him. "I…I want
you to get out of this house! Tonight, Jeff, get out and don't you ever come back!"
Jeff looks back at her. "I'll leave," he whispers back to her. "And
I am sorry that I hurt you, but I won't apologize for finding Victoria. I deserve
to be happy, Leah. We all do."
"Ahhhh!" Leah screams as
she throws her glass against the wall, which shatters into a million pieces. "Get
out!"
The State Prison
 
"Answer me, Tara," Cheresa grills the woman sitting on the other
side of the plexiglass. "What the hell did you do to Dawn?"
"Dawn?
Tara gets a grin on her face. "I briefly remember her visiting me when she
was working on some report…"
"Yea, and after those visits,
she snapped, and has completely lost it," Cheresa reveals to her. "My
Aunt Daisy…"
"Daisy? She was in her for murder," Tara recalls. "Until she
got out, lucky bitch."
"She has a theory that you brainwashed
her," Cheresa ignores her commentary. "I need to know if that's true.
Did you brainwash my girlfriend into being a murdering psycho?"
Tara
starts to laugh at Cheresa. "You must think I am a wizard or something,"
she chuckles at the suggestion.
"Just tell me the truth!" Cheresa
presses her. "I need to get Dawn help and in order to do that, I need to
know the truth."
"Fine," Tara rolls her eyes back to her
before she shoots her a glare. "I did brainwash her, okay? I wanted her to
carry out some of my plans, and from the sounds of it, it's worked."
"You bitch," Cheresa replies to her quickly. "I hope you rot
in hell!"
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