Money Is No Match For Love ch. 22 When Dreams Fail
by lordoftheringsfan
 
 
 
 

      Charity, Jessica, Miguel, and Reese arrived at the Crane mansion awhile later. Eve answered the door when she heard a knock.

      "Charity, Reese, Miguel, Jessica, what are you doing here?" Eve asked.

      "Eve, we have to tell you about Simone." Jessica said.

      "Oh my God, my baby! Did you find her?" Eve asked. "Is she alright?"

      "Dr. Russel, I don't know how to tell you this, but I saw Simone in an alley, and she was dressed like a hooker." Reese said.

      "What!?" Eve said in shock.

      "She told me that if I wanted to talk to her, I had to pay her for her time, and then she took off." Reese said.

      "Was there anything else?" Eve asked.

      "I think that she is on drugs." Reese said. "She had some kind of a cigarette in her hand."

      Eve stared at the teens blankly as she had a flashback of her life with Julian, and a flashback of the picture that Ivy had been blackmailing her with.

      "I'll kill him," Eve said, taking off.
 

      "So, what was it you wanted to ask me?" Julian asked, surpised that Sheridan, of all people, would be turning to him for advice.

      "I just don't know what to do about my relationships with Luis and Antonio." Sheridan said. "I don't want our love to kill Antonio, which is why I have to keep it from him, but I'm afraid that if I lead Antonio on any longer, Luis will think our relationship is a lost cause and I will end up sending him back into Beth's arms." Sheridan said.

      "I don't know what you should do," Julian said. "Just decide who you really love and go after that person."
      "I love Luis," Sheridan said. "I care about Antonio a lot, and I was in love with him when I was Diana, but I'm not Diana anymore. I'm Sheridan Crane."
      "If you don't go after the person you really love, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. Even if you get that person back later on, it can still have serious consequences," Julian thought, thinking about the damage that he'd done to Eve's family, and TC and Rebecca ending up in the witness protection program. Just as Julian was getting ready to give Sheridan more advice, a furious Eve rushed into the room and forced Julian up against a wall.

      "This is all your fault!" Eve said. "I was a fool to think that you have changed!"

      "Eve, where is all of this coming from?" Julian asked. "I thought you loved me."

      "Oh, get over it, Julian, that was all the fog's doing. I can't believe I was niave enough to let some fog force my youngest daughter into a drug ring!" Eve yelled.

      "Eve-" Julian started to say, but he was shut up with a slap across the face.

      "I can't believe I ever felt anything for you to begin with!" Eve said. "My oldest daughter slept with her brother, and my youngest daughter is on drugs, and my husband is in the witness protection program because of an accident that never would have happened if you wouldn't have started putting the moves on me at that party the other night!"

      "I thought you felt about me the way you used to all those years ago," Julian said, tears starting to come to his eyes.

      "The only feelings I feel for you are bitterness and hatred," Eve said. "The same thing I felt when you got me pregnant with Chad and abandoned me." Eve said. "My daughters hate me because of you." Eve said.

      "Eve, I really have changed. I never wanted any of this to happen to you," Julian said sincerely. Sheridan watched in shock as Eve and Julian fought. For the first time in her life, her brother actually looked like he was being sincere!

      "Oh, and you know what you said about thinking of the consequences of your actions? Well, you had your chance to stand up to your father all those years ago."
Eve said.

      "Eve, I never stopped loving you." Julian said.

      "You had your chance to stand up to your father and you didn't." Eve said. "I moved on and had a family, we were all happy, but your regrets took that all away from me."

      "Eve-" Julian pleaded.

      "I've had enough," Eve said, running out of the room crying.

      "Eve?" Julian said. Julian broke down as the door slammed. Afraid this was what was going to happen to her life, Sheridan pulled Julian into her arms. Usually she would have called him a worthless jerk and told him he deserved it, but she wouldn't feel right since she was caught in a similar situation. She did think that Julian's actions were responsible for Simone's disapperance, but she knew the feeling of not being able to stand up for love. No matter who she chose, Alastair would never accept her with a Lopez-Fitzgerald. She was also afraid of what would happen to Theresa, usually Alastair would have tried to get rid of a Lopez-Fitzgerald by now. She figured that he must be planning something extravagant.
 

      "When is Hans going to call back?" Rebecca asked in frustration. "I called him a couple days ago! Henchmen, you can't count on them for anything." Rebecca jumped when her cellphone rang. She quickly shoved a blanket under the door so that TC would not be able to hear.
      "Hans, its about time you called." Rebecca said.
      "Hey, watch the tone, woman." Hans snapped.
      "You watch your tone." Rebecca commented. "Nobody I hire talks to me that way."
      "Fine, I guess you don't want the info." Hans said.
      "Just spill already." Rebecca said, getting annoyed. Hans had to be the most annoying of her henchmen.
      "You know that whole scheme you had with causing Julian to see Eve in other men's arms?" Hans asked.
      "Is it working?" Rebecca said.
      "Not exactly." Hans said.
      "Well, then, make it work." Rebecca said.
      "Hey, it's not like I can go back in time and tell Eve not to slap Julian and say Simone being on drugs isn't all his fault." Hans said.
      "Well, la de da," Rebecca said. "Its not like you're not a lot of things, like smart for instance. What did you just say?"
      "You heard me the first time. Eve hates Julian." Hans said.
      "Wait- did you just say that Eve hates pookey?" Rebecca said.
      "Yeah, I said Eve hates pookey." Hans laughed. "I'm starting to feel sorry for Julian already. One woman can't stand him and the other calls him pookey. What do you do, just run around all day saying oh pookey, oh pookey, oh pookey?"
      "I'll call you a few choice words if you don't tell me exactly what happened." Rebecca said.
      "Well, a bunch of bratty teenagers showed up at the mansion and told Eve that Simone was involved in some kind of a drug ring and told that kid with glasses that he'd have to pay her for her time next time he tried to talk with her. Eve blamed Julian and said something about some crazy fog, slapped him and ran out. The man was crying like a baby." Hans said.
      "Eve actually made Julian cry?" Rebecca said. "And I thought Ivy was the one he called the Ice Queen."
      "I didn't call to get Julian's life story," Hans said. Hans hang up the phone.
      "I knew I should have hired Handerson." Rebecca said, hiding the phone in a suitcase. "Eve made pookey cry? No way. Well, maybe this means Eve will feel so horrible that she'll try to get back with TC to fix their family, and Julian will come running back to me."