Schemes Of Deception - Chapter 13 (Even Love Is Deceiving)
by rex_and_mimi_rule
 
 

The next morning, Rebecca woke up next to Julian, the
bedroom was a wreck from their night of games. "Thank
goodness I'm waking up next to pookey and not T.-"
Rebecca sat up in bed, her eyes widening like flying saucers.
"Why is this the first thing I'm thinking about?"
Rebecca thought in dread. "This has to stop," Rebecca said,
lying back down next to Julian. "No other man
could even come close to Julian so why am I still
thinking about T.C?" Rebecca thought. Rebecca closed
her eyes and hoped that if she concentrated on her
night with Julian last night, flashbacks of playing businessman
and intern were replaced with the images of T.C.'s punching bag
being used as a game prop would go away, especially when
T.C. came into the room, but when
her eyes closed, the fantasies were still there as they were
when she was awake. "What is happening to me?"
Rebecca thought, caressing Julian's shirtless back, who was
still asleep. "If it makes me so crazy when Julian listens to that
tape because I know he's thinking about Liz, then why do
I keep fantasizing about T.C?"

Meanwhile, Eve woke up next to T.C. She felt terrible,
all night she had been fantasizing about making love to
Julian, and she savored any memory that
resurfaced of their past together. T.C. had gone out
of his way to make the evening special, and she was
fantasizing about another man. Not just another man,
the love of her life, Julian Crane.

"How did I end up torn between two men I love, even
though my heart still belongs to Julian?" Eve thought. Eve knew
that she had made the situation much worse. Julian had been
trying to make up for the
mistakes he made in the past by trying to do a nice
thing and help her marraige, and she still loved him
as much as she did back then, but now, it was like
she was falling in love with him all over again, more
so. "What's happened to my life?" Eve thought, feeling
as if her world had been yanked out from under her.
"Its like I'm falling in love with Julian all over
again." Eve fantasized about making love to Julian,
just helplessly and hopelessly giving into each other
like they used to so many years ago. But T.C, if he
found out she felt this way about another man- the man
he thought cost him his tennis career and blamed
as responsible for his father's death- the consequences would be
disasturous for everyone involved. She didn't want to see T.C. get hurt, but
she didn't know how much longer she could keep the
passion she felt for Julian a secret, especially after
all Julian had done for her.

"I'm glad that's all this is," Chad said.

"Don't worry, Chad, I won't get pulled in over my
head." Whitney said.

"I hope not because we're supposed to meet with that
record producer later to see about getting Whitney
Russell blasted into the music scene," Chad said.

"I can't wait," Whitney said.
 
 
 

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