Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Passions that right belongs to James E. Reilly. However I do own the rights of the characters that I made up in this story.

The next morning, Julian was sitting down at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee and eating his breakfast. William was sitting down in his booster chair eating his breakfast and drinking his juice too as Eve sat beside him doing the same.

Last night after returning home from Ivy’s house, Eve placed William in his bed softly then ran out of his room, into her room and straight to the bathroom as Julian was just now getting undressed. He shook his head at the way Eve thought she would be the first one to use the shower. Stepping out of his boxers, he walked over to the bathroom door and opened it just as Eve was stepping into the shower. He slowly crept up behind her and kissed her right on her shoulder before she spun around and captured his lips. She pulled away from him slowly then pulled him by his arm into the shower with her. Shortly after, the two of them were making love again as the water from the shower rained all over their joined bodies.

After breakfast, Julian kissed Eve on the lips and rubbed William’s head before heading off to work. Eve took William out of his booster chair and cleaned him off before getting him dressed. Ten minutes later, mother and son were driving off to the hospital. Once there, she walked William to the second floor to drop him off at the daycare center, kissed him on the cheek, then headed in the direction of her office.

Julian arrived at the Donaldson building ten minutes later, then walked inside and headed straight to Ivy’s office. Stopping in front of it, he knocked twice before she called him in. Once he was inside, he noticed that she was talking to Daniel.

“Julian, good you’re just in time.” She said.

“Good, so let’s get to work.” Julian said.

“Not yet Julian. You see, Ivy and I had a little disagreement and we need you to decide which one of us is right.” Daniel said.

Julian rolled his eyes then placed his hands in his pants pocket. ‘These two just can’t see eye to eye on anything.’ He sighed.

“Ok, let me hear it...” He said. ‘This is going to take a while.’

An hour later…

“Well Julian, which one of us is right?” Daniel asked.

Julian had been leaning back in the chair he was still sitting in since the two of them started trying to get their point across. He had nearly dozed off at one point. Right now, he was blinking his eyes open to clear his vision as he cleared his throat and proceeded to answer them.

“Well this is a tough choice. I mean, you both pleaded your case very good but only one of you pleaded it great.” He paused and then looked between the two of them. “When it comes to who makes the best meatloaf… the winner is…”

Ivy and Daniel were looking at him with so much respect and trust that he didn’t really want to hurt their feelings…but, if they wanted the truth, then so be it.

“The winner is…” He looked at them one time before saying… “My wife makes the best meatloaf hands down.”

The absolute stunned looks on Ivy and Daniel’s faces were priceless as Julian started laughing. He was laughing so hard that he literally had tears falling down his face. Ivy was the first to recover from her momentary laps of shock before glaring daggers into Julian’s eyes, his laughing instantly ceased.

‘Oh boy…’ Julian gulped as Ivy advanced on him like a tigress hurting her prey.

“Now, now… calm down Ivy. I was only telling the truth, I mean, I just couldn’t choose between the both of you…” Julian leaned as far as he could back in that chair and before he knew it, he was on the ground with Ivy standing over him.

“Ok.” Ivy suddenly said, then walked out of the office.

Julian looked up with this puzzled look on his face and locked eyes with Daniel.

“What the hell was that all about?” Julian asked.

“I have no idea.” Daniel said shaking his head.

Four hours had passed, as Eve was standing over by the nurse’s station on the first floor looking over some files, when suddenly the doors to the front of the hospital burst open. Paramedics came rushing inside with a man lying down on the gurney yelling. She dropped what she was doing and rushed over to assist them.

“I’m Dr. Crane, what happened?” Eve said.

“The victim suffered a dislocated shoulder and broke his right leg while saving a little girl from being hit by a car.” The male paramedic said.

“Alright sir, what’s your name?” Eve said as she checked his heartbeat.

“Luciano, Carlo Luciano.” The man said with a thick Italian accent.

“Alright, Mr. Luciano, I’m Dr. Eve Crane and I’ll be the doctor in charge of your care.”

Even though he was in pain, Carlo never took his eyes off of Eve. Never before had he seen someone as beautiful as she. Eve motioned for them to bring him back this way and roll him into the room to the left. She then told one of the nurses who had followed behind her to go and find Dr. Graves.

Eve walked over to the other side of the room, washed her hands in the sink then put on a pair of rubber gloves. Walking back over towards Carlo, she pulled out of pair of scissors and started cutting his shirt off.

“Can you try to raise your arm up for me?” she asked and watched as Carlo tried to raise it but grimaced in pain. “Well it’s definitely dislocated.”

Eve was about to check on his leg when Dr. Graves came into the room. He had brought in a few more nurses to help the two of them out. Once he was standing over by Eve, the two of them got to work.

Another hour passed as Julian was sitting behind his desk typing on his computer, when his secretary buzzed in.

“What is it Gail?”

“Mr. Crane, there’s a phone call for you from a Mr. Marco Luciano?”

“Put him through please.” Julian buzzed back, then waited for his phone to ring. When it did, he picked it up.

“Marco, it’s a pleasure to hear from you again…” Julian said.

“I’m sorry my brother and I wouldn’t be able to make it to our meeting today.” Marco said with an Italian accent.

“Did something come up?”

“My brother Carlo was hit by a car an hour ago and had to be rushed to Harmony General.”

“Is he alright?”

“He’s fine. I just talked to him and he still wants to meet with you. So would it be a problem for you to come down to Harmony General to meet with us?”

“Not at all. I’ll be there in about fifteen minutes.”

True to his word, fifteen minutes later Julian was outside of Harmony General. He walked up to the nurse’s station and as about to ask what room number was Carlo Luciano in when someone tapped him on the shoulder.

“Hey baby…” Julian said as he turned around and saw that it was his lovely wife.

“Hey there yourself.” Eve said then kissed him quickly on the lips. “What are you doing here?”

“I was suppose to meet these two brothers today about a project they wanted me for, but then one of them called and told me that his brother was rushed here.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, I was about to ask the nurse what room he was in.”

“Tell me his name…” Eve said as she walked around the desk to sit in front of the computer.

“Carlo Luciano.” Julian said and watched as Eve looked back at him.

“Carlo Luciano?”

“Yeah that’s him.”

“He’s a patient of mine. I was just on my way to go check in on him.”

“Can he have visitors?”

“Only for a little while, he needs his rest.” Eve said then took Julian by the hand as the two of them walked to Carlo’s room.

Inside of the room, Marco was sitting to the side of Carlo’s bed as he watched him sleep. A few minutes later, Carlo slowly opened his eyes and looked to the left where Marco was sitting.

“I see you’re awake again little brother.” Marco said.

“Yeah. I wanted to be up for when my doctor came back.”

Marco raised a brow. “Is she beautiful?

“She’s breath-taking.” Carlo smirked.

“Let me guess… blonde hair, blue eyes, big breast, big ass and a pair of sexy legs.”

“No… dark hair, brown eyes, big breast, nice ass and a pair of long sexy caramel legs…” He said in a dreamy voice.

“She’s black huh? Well then, I have to see her with my own eyes.”

A knock on the door jarred the brothers from their conversation as Eve and Julian stepped into the room.

“Well now, it’s good to see that you’re awake Mr. Luciano.” Eve said as she walked over to the side of his bed.

“Please call me Carlo. Mr. Luciano makes me sound old and I’m far from it.” Carlo smiled.

“Julian it’s good to see you again.” Marco said as he walked over and shook Julian’s hand.

“It’s good to see you to Marco.” Julian said then turned towards Carlo. “How are you feeling?”

“When I first came here I was feeling like crap, but thanks to the lovely doc over here, I feel a little better.”

“That’s good to hear.” Julian said then winked at Eve.

“I’m glad that I have a doctor like her taking care of me. Her boyfriend or husband must be really proud of her.” Carlo looked to Eve. He wanted to know if she was seeing anyone, hopefully she wasn’t.

“You got that right, I am proud of her.”

Carlo looked to Julian then back to Eve.

“Am I missing something?”

“Remember when we first met and I told you both that I had a wife and son?”

Carlo and Marco nodded.

“Well gentlemen, I’d like for you both to meet my wife...” Julian said as he walked over to where Eve was standing. “Dr. Eve Crane.”