Six months later…

The sound of crying from the room down the hall had awakened the two occupants of the room two doors down. A few minutes later, a man with short dark hair and a tattoo on his back exited his room and walked down the hall to the room the crying was coming from. Once he was inside of the room, the man walked over to the where the source of the crying was coming from. Then carefully he leaned over, picked up the crying baby and walked over to the chair next to the dresser. As soon as he sat down the baby instantly stopped crying.

“Hey there little man… so you wanted your daddy huh?” Julian smiled as his son grabbed a hold of his finger.

Movement in the doorway took Julian’s attention from his little son to the woman standing there looking at him with a smile on her face.

“You can go back to bed now baby, he just needed to see his daddy, isn’t that right little man.” Julian cooed then started playing with his son again.

“Well excuse me for being a caring mother.” Eve scoffed.

“Oh you know I was playing…”

Eve smiled again.

“Well as much as Kellen needed to see his daddy again, it’s really mommy that he wants.” She smirked.

Julian rolled his eyes then stood up and allowed Eve sit down in the chair before placing Kellen in her arms. Then he watched as Eve untied the front of her nightgown and started breastfeeding their son.

“You know as of lately Kellen’s been getting more breast action then me.” He pouted.

“Julian!” Eve shrieked.

“Not that I mind though, I mean, he is a growing boy.” Julian smiled playfully.

“I see.”

Julian’s smile instantly disappeared as he watched Eve carefully. He didn’t like the way she suddenly stopped talking. She was looking at him funny too and he didn’t know what to do or what to say. After Kellen was fed, cleaned and burped, Eve placed him softly back in his crib and walked out of his room, leaving Julian behind.

‘Ok…what just happened here?’ Julian thought with confusion written on his face. He then walked over to Kellen’s crib and looked at him once more before following Eve back to their room.

When he got back to their room, he noticed that Eve had gotten back into their bed and that her back was to him. He sighed then walked over and climbed into the bed as well. He wanted to place his hand on her shoulder, but chose not to.

“Eve…” he called out softly.

“So let me get this straight… you’re jealous because Kellen gets to suck on my breast and you can’t?” Eve said to him but didn’t turn around to face him.

Julian gasped.

“Of course not! I didn’t mean it like that!”

Eve suddenly turned around so that her face was inches from his.

“You know Julian,” she purred seductively as she trailed a finger down his chest. “all you had to do was ask…” she finished then pressed her lips to his.

Julian was taken back at how forward Eve was. She then pulled away from him a bit, and before he even could blink, she had somehow gotten undressed and undressed him too in the process!

‘How the hell did she do that?!’ He thought in utter surprise.

Once Eve was satisfied with way things had turned out, she kissed him roughly on the mouth again. Now this was a surprise to Julian. Never before had Eve been this wild when they made love. Julian rested his hands on her waist as she continued to kiss him senseless. He then started trailing kisses down her neck until he came into contact with one of her breast. Eve’s eyes shot open, and everything around her seemed to explode into an array of bright lights.

“Oh god!” she moaned out loud.

Julian for his part continued to suck on Eve’s breast as he brought one of his hands up to squeeze the other. He just couldn’t get enough of her as his hands were now slowly trailing down her sides. Somehow he managed to sit up with Evian still straddling him as he rested his back against the headboard of the bed. And in one swift movement, he lifted her up slowly by her waist then pulled her down quickly on top of his length burying it deep inside of her.

They both moaned out together in absolute bliss and then next thing you know, Eve suddenly started to ride him for what he was worth! Up and down, left and right, harder and deeper, faster then slow, Eve continued to move on top of him with reckless abandonment. Julian was in a whole other world as Eve controlled the pace of their lovemaking. With the way she was moving on him, Julian didn’t know how much longer he could last, but he would try his hardest to last as long as she needed him to.

It took much longer then Julian thought it would as he now lie with Eve’s head resting comfortably on his chest and his fingers running through her hair. He was looking up at the ceiling in their room when this huge grin appeared upon his face. Eve’s head moving from his chest made Julian take his eyes off of the ceiling and look down at her.

“I didn’t know you that kind of wild side in you dear.” He said in a playful voice.

“I’ve always had it Julian, but every time we made love, it was always your wild side that came out first.” She smirked seductively.

“Well maybe I should make a note to myself.” Julian said to Eve before suddenly talking to himself. “Note to self, next time when making love to wife, let her dominate.”

Eve laughed.

“You know, if we keep this up, you won’t be getting any for another nine months…”

Julian looked at her and his face paled.

“Nine months…” he mumbled out.

She nodded.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love our sons dearly, but I don’t think we’re ready for anymore kids just yet.”

“I agree too. But still, I wouldn’t mind having a daughter in the near future.”

“Hmmm, that would be nice. A little Eve running around the place… I like that idea.” Julian said then kissed her forehead.

The next day, Eve left Julian and the boys early so that she could get to work. Even after Ivy offered to step down as CEO of the Donaldson Division so that he could return, Julian declined her offer. He told her that she was doing a good job and that he didn’t need to come back, but now he didn’t know what to do with all of his spare time.

After Julian made sure that Kellen was asleep, and William was watching television, he decided to run outside real quick to get the mail. Once he got it, he went and scurried through every piece of mail until he came upon an envelope addressed to him. He sat the rest of the mail on the table by the door, then went and sat next to two-year-old William. As soon as he read the first two lines of letter a frown appeared on his face.

It was a letter from the correctional facility that Rebecca was serving her life sentence at. As he read the rest of the letter his face grew deathly pale. Rebecca had escaped! And it said that she was coming for everyone the he and Eve held dear to their hearts.

Six hours had passed as Eve now lay in her office with the lights out and her feet resting comfortably on the arm of the couch. She was beat. As soon as she walked into the hospital at 8 a.m., she was immediately sent to work. One of her patients had fallen and broken their hip while trying to steal their roommates jell-o, another patient of hers had accidentally pulled their breathing tube out of the machine as they rolled over in bed and lastly, a former patient of hers had to rushed back the hospital after getting electrocuted in the kitchen trying to fix their broken plug that was by the sink. Overall, today was a weird day for Eve at work… period.

Four hours later, Julian was in the bathroom giving William a bath when the cordless phone started ringing. He grabbed the towel that was on the floor next to him, then bent over and picked William up out of the water. He then stood up with William in his arms and walked out of the bathroom and into his bedroom. With William still in his arms, he went over by the nightstand and answered the phone.

“Hello…” Julian said as he sat down on the bed with William, who was now dosing off in his arms.

“We have a problem Julian.”

“What happened Allegra?

“When Celia and I returned back, we found Carlo missing.”

Julian wanted to yell out as loud as he could, but he looked down and saw William sleeping comfortably in his arms. He took a deep breath then continued talking.

“Are you sure he’s gone?”

“Julian we’ve looked everywhere, he’s not here.”

“This just isn’t my day.” Julian sighed.

“What are you talking about Julian?” Allegra asked him.

“I got a letter today from Marks Correctional Facility here in Harmony.”

“What?”

“Rebecca Osborn escaped recently.”

Silence-

“That’s the crazy broad that tried to kill you and Eve.”

“Yeah.” Julian huffed.

“You’re right, today is not your day.”

Eve looked down at her watch and was happy as can be. It was time for her shift to end. Even after getting the little bit of rest she got earlier in her office, it still wasn’t enough. No, all she wanted to do was go home, take a nice hot bath to soothe the aching muscles in her body and crawl up in the bed with Julian and relax.

Stuffing some of her files in her backpack, (she found out from Julian that carrying a backpack was a whole lot easier than walking around with a suitcase in your hands all day), Eve walked out of her office straight to the elevator then out of the hospital. Just as she got close to her car, someone grabbed her from behind and pushed her up against the side of her car roughly.

Fear instantly took over Eve’s body as she felt the person breathing heavily close to her face, all the while not daring to open her eyes. Her body was stiff as a board as the person suddenly released her but not before calling out her name. Her breath hitched in her throat and her eyes shot open just in time to see the person who said her name collapse on the ground beside her.

“Carlo?”