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The
Quiet Before the Storm Part 7 As Sonny continues to sit on the docks looking out at the water, he is unaware that a spy has been lurking in the darkness, waiting to pounce. Just as the person is about to make their move, they are stopped in their tracks when they hear Sonny’s cell phone ring. Not being able to discern what is being said, they continue to watch him from the shadows. “I wonder what’s up with him? He seems upset. Maybe it’s trouble with business.” Speaking loudly into the phone Sonny asks his question again. “Alexis, where are you? What can I do to help?” “Please Sonny, just come to Brenda’s cottage. Come alone. I need you...” and then the call was disconnected. “Alexis! Alexis! Answer me!” Sonny stared in disbelief as he only heard the inhuman drone of the operator, “If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and try again.” Sonny, still momentarily shocked by the call from Alexis couldn’t move. His feet seemed like they were implanted in the wooden planks covering the walkway of the docks. He can’t seem to think of anything else until he heard someone approaching at a dead run. “Sonny! Sonny. Hey, I was just looking for you. What are you doing down here?” she says as she moves towards him, gushing sex appeal. “What do you want Carly? I’m busy,” he says while finally able to move to walk away. Carly gave him the will to walk away. After being stunned by Alexis’ call for help, he need some type of motivation to move. And that motivation was standing right in front of him. Her smile now morphs into a scowl as she reached out to grab his arm. He looks at her with a look of impatience and disdain. He can see the look of hurt on her face but he can’t think about that now. His thoughts turn to Alexis. “Alexis needs me,” he thought to himself. Crossing her arms, she questions him. “Sonny? What’s wrong with you? I haven’t spoken to you in weeks besides discussing Michael’s scheduled visitations with you, and now you want to bite my head off! We use to be so close and now you treat me like a stranger. What happened?” “Carly, I can’t get into this right now. I have places to be, important things to do. I don’t have time to rehash the past with you! There’s something I need to take care of and it can’t wait.” “What? Do you have some other ‘damsel in distress’ you need to go rescue? I know that look in your eye Sonny. I know it’s some other woman you’re worried about right now. The only question is who?” Dramatically tapping her chin she starts running a mental list of who it could be. “Let’s see…Brenda left the country months ago, so I know it’s not her. And I know that Jason can definitely protect Courtney so that rules her out, and you can clearly see that I don’t need rescuing at the moment. So who does that leave?” The anger building in him, he tries to put a cap on his emotions for the moment, not wanting to waste any more time and energy on Carly than was necessary. With a deadly tone he answers, “Leave it alone Carly.” From the look in his eye she can only gather that her worst fears have come true. “I don’t believe it. I simply don’t believe it!” she says, as if all the pieces have come together. “Your going after Alexis aren’t you?” “What would make you say that Carly? Have you done something I should know about?” “Why do you assume that I’ve done something wrong? Do you think so little of me?” “Well I’m sorry if that hurts your feelings Carly. Past experience has taught me a few things.” “What’s wrong now Sonny? Something wrong with her kid that you think you can fix? Has she landed herself in jail again? What? Are you going to try to save everyone but me now? Why is everyone so much more important to you than me all of a sudden?” “Carly, I don’t want to get into this right now.” “Don’t do this Sonny. Please. Don’t go after her! Forget about that baby! I can give you all the babies you want. I know I’ve had some problems getting pregnant before, but I’ve been seeing Dr. Bonds, and she’s been helping me with fertility treatments. I can still give you the family you want. Me, Michael, a new baby? It can all happen if you’d just give me another chance Sonny.” “What the hell is that supposed to mean Carly?” As the truth set into his mind, he saw a look of panic cross Carly’s face. She knew the truth. She had known it all along. He had one simple question for her. “You know, don’t you? You’ve known since the beginning haven’t you?” “Know what?” “Don’t lie to me Carly. I see you too clearly now to be fooled by your innocent act.” “Sonny, I don’t know what your thinking but...” “Save it Carly. I should have known. You’ve always put your well being ahead of others no matter what the cost. “ Breathing in deeply but trying to stay in control he continued. “You knew that Alexis was carrying my child, and you kept it from me.” “Sonny, you saw the test results. What are you talking about?” “Even after the test results, you still knew the truth. I knew it too but I kept my findings to myself for Alexis and the baby’s sake. I wanted them safe, so I kept my mouth shut. I even kept it from you because I knew you’d try to make Alexis’ life hell if you knew I knew the truth. Carly you knew that I would leave you if I found out Alexis was carrying my child, so you purposefully kept her babies paternity from me. You lied to me!” “Don’t
get all high and mighty with me Sonny! You lied to me too!” “Well what about Alexis? She lied to you too! Doesn’t that count for anything? I lied to you and you leave me. She keeps you from your child, and you forgive her. You even help her after all she’s done. How is that fair?” “Carly, she lied because she was afraid for our baby. She did the only thing she could think to do at the time. And you didn’t make things better by constantly working on her fears. I wasn’t there for most of the talks you two had before you told me I could be the father, but I’m pretty sure it would make anyone crazy with worry, including Alexis.” “I
knew that witch would say it’s all my fault. And she came running
to you for help didn’t she? What did she say? Carly backed
me into a wall? Carly made me lie to you? I can see she works fast.
I just left her a little while ago. She must have broken her neck
trying to get to you. So I guess she finally told you the truth
about Kristina huh? And you’ll blindly forgive her won’t
you? You’re so desperate for a child that you’d forgive
her over me and go running after her? How pathetic, using a child
to get you back in her clutches. I guess she knows that’s the
only reason you’d ever choose her over me. “Shut up Carly! You don’t know what you’re talking about. And If I were you I wouldn’t dare accuse anyone of using their child to hold onto anyone. Besides, for your information I’ve known all along that Kristina was mine. But I kept it to myself because I knew she’d be safer if nobody knew. “ As shock appeared on Carly’s face he knew he had her where he wanted her. “And I can see by the look on your face that you’ve known all along too. I can’t believe this! After all the long talks about trust that we’ve had, you still lied to me! Knowing that me being a father would be the most important thing in my life. How could you? And I guess this was the ultimate payback huh? You were so wrapped up in keeping your ‘perfect’ family together that you’d deny me my child just to do it! No wonder you were trying so hard to get pregnant. I guess you thought if you got pregnant by me that it would even the score a little? Make it harder for me to walk away if I ever found out about Kristina? Well God forgive me, but I’m glad that you and I don’t share a child. That would just be one more pawn you would use in your twisted game!” “Sonny I…” “Save it Carly. I don’t have time for this. Just know that I won’t forget this, nor will I forgive you for it. I’ve forgiven you too many times in the past and look where it got me. Kicked in the gut and betrayed by you once again. Well no more. I can’t trust you, and I know from this that any hope I had of making things right with you are gone now. The only time I want to see your face is when you drop off Michael to visit me. Other than that we have nothing to discuss. Period.” With an air of finality he looked at her for the last time. “Now I’ve got to go.” “Sonny, wait! Sonny! Ignoring her he turns towards the stairs, racing up them two at a time in search of his car. “Damn it! I’ve wasted time arguing with Carly when I should have been getting to Alexis! I’ll never forgive myself if she’s hurt.” Quickly disarming his car he jumped into the drivers seat and took off as the winds picked up. The lightening in the sky intensified as the storm approached. “I know that Alexis is going to be soo mad at me for doing this, but drastic calls count for drastic measures.” “Kristina”
was formulating her plan as she drove through the dark The rain finally started to come down, hitting the car windshield in large drops as the night sky darkened even more. “I only hope I can beat Sonny there.” With a smile on her face, she wickedly spoke her wishes aloud. “Let the gods be with me. Bring on the rain!”
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