Dani watched as Simon fell back completely, his hands covering his face. She stood up and kicked the whiskey bottle out of reach.

"Simon, what are you saying?" Dani nudged his leg. "Are you saying Molly really is a murderer?"

Dani watched him slowly move his hands to rest on his stomach, "That's right. Molly the murderer killed Sarah. Do you want to know how she did it?"

"Only if you want to tell me," Dani said carefully.

"Sarah was sick. She was dying dammit! I couldn't afford all her bills. All those damned medical bills. So I did what I had to do."

"What did you do?"

Simon began slapping his forehead, "The only thing someone like me could do. I'm not smart. I don't have a degree. All I have are my looks. A friend of mine told me about this club where women would pay for men to take them out on dates."

"Like an escort service?" Dani asked, slightly appalled. "Is that how you met Molly? She used an escort service?"

He gave a drunken nod and flashed a satisfied smile, "I knew she wanted me the minute she laid eyes on me. Roving over me like she was imagining what sex would be like between us. Molly is the type of woman who gets what she wants."

"And she wanted you?"

"Enough to kill for me."

Dani couldn't help but think Simon was focusing a bit too much on his desirability, "So you went on a date with Molly even though you were married?"

"It wasn't a date! It was work. I had to do it," Simon choked back a sob. "Sarah's medical bills were too high for me to handle. I needed money."

"I still don't understand how this makes Molly a murderer," Dani said, a pensive expression on her face.

"Molly's loaded. She kept tempting me try and sleep with her for a bonus. I told her I didn't do that. That I wasn't some damned male prostitute!"

Dani watched as Simon groaned and his whiskey enabled tears began to flow, "I didn't want to betray Sarah...but she was so sick."

Dani waited for him to continue.

"The first time, I was drunk. The second time was easier but I felt so dirty. I didn't want to see Sarah after that. I was so afraid she'd see through me. That she'd know what I had done. I even started to feel as though the nurses were giving me dirty looks when I tried to visit the hospital. I'd get to the floor she was on and then turn around. I'd leave without seeing my wife...I was so ashamed."

Dani stayed quiet. She couldn't give her customary, "I'm sorry to hear that." She never condoned cheating under any circumstance.

"Molly kept pressuring me to divorce Sarah. To marry her and make it official."

"What about Sarah and her medical bills?"

Simon laughed again, "She offered to keep paying them. What kind of murderer does that?"

Dani was wondering the same thing.

"One day I finally decided to cut things off with Molly. I'd sell my organs if I had to but I'd had enough. That's when it all happened. I went to her room but she wasn't there. Sarah was missing. I asked the nurse who said she went to the stairwell. My phone rang and it was her. She was crying. She wanted to know who the woman was that I was sleeping with."

"Oh no," Dani felt her hands cover her mouth in shock.

"She found out everything. I tried to deny it. Even as I ran up the stairs, listening to her crying about how she had nothing to live for...I denied it. She didn't believe me. She said she was told everything," Simon wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. "I got to the roof and I saw her on her cell phone. She was on the ledge and I swear I would've done anything...said anything...just to get her to forgive me. I cried out her name and she dropped her cell phone. She looked back. I ran forward to try and stop her."

Dani shook her head, "I'm so sorry."

"I remember hearing sirens and a security guard yelling at me to stop. The last thing I remember seeing was her eyes. They looked so sad. So disappointed. Then she was gone. I rushed forward but someone tackled me from behind. It's all her fault."

Dani wondered if he meant Molly.

"Don't you see?"

"I'm sorry Simon but I don't. You had an affair. You and Molly. How does that make her a murderer?"

"Because she told Sarah we were having an affair! Sarah was sick. She couldn't take it. This was supposed to be kept a secret. Instead she went behind me back and told Sarah so that she would leave me."

Dani felt pity for the wife that was betrayed but not for Simon or for Molly, "Why did you marry her?"

Simon laughed again, "Why? I told you she tricked me! I was lifeless when Sarah left me. I didn't care what happened to me. I just needed my next drink and Molly provided that. She promised me money. A new car. Anything I wanted. I could've said no. I should've said no...but I didn't. You want to know why?"

"Not really," Dani mumbled.

"Because like Sarah, I had nothing left to live for. My wife was gone. She left me. Everything I did was for her but she still left me."

"I don't think most women would say thank you for sleeping with another woman regardless of the reason," Dani said. She didn't think Simon was really listening. He was too busy wallowing in the past.

Dani stood up, ready to let him continue his pity party alone when he suddenly grabbed her legs, causing her to fall on top of him.

"You're cute, you know that?" Simon whispered to her.

"You're drunk. You know that?" Dani covered her nose at the smell of his alcoholic breath that was stinging her nose.

"What the Hell is going on here!" Molly's voice cut through them.

"Apparently not what you're thinking," Dani answered, carefully standing up and brushing off the excess dirt and grass on her pants.

"Leave her alone!" Simon shouted, struggling to jump up from his spot on the ground. He fell on his back and giggled.

"How dare you mess with my husband!" Molly rushed forward, hand raised.

Dani tried to jump out of reach but was a bit too late. The sound of flesh hitting flesh echoed around them and Dani grabbed her cheek, "You hit me!"

"I'll do more to you if you don't stay away from my husband," Molly spat.

Like a kettle that had reached its boiling point, Dani blew up. She pulled back her fist and punched the smug look off of Molly's face, causing Simon to laugh uncontrollably. Dani spun on him, "You want a bite of that knuckle sandwich too?"

Molly was hunched over groaning, her hands holding the right side of her face, "I'll sue you! How dare you touch me."

Dani smirked, "Sue me? For what? I don't have any money. Besides, that punch you earned was self-defense."

"That's right. It was self defense," a male voice said from a few feet away.

Dani looked to her right to see Jax, a scowl on his face and fists at his side.

"Jax!" Dani was both surprised and embarrassed.

Molly grimaced as she tried to move her head too fast, "Your fiancée was trying to seduce my husband. How do you explain that?"

Jax peered over at Simon who was still attempting to stand up, "I don't need to explain anything." He looked at Dani, "Were you trying to seduce that?" He pointed at Simon.

"Of course I wasn't!" Dani's lip furled in disgust.

"That's good enough for me," Jax said to Molly. He took a step towards the woman and clucked his tongue, "That looks like it's going to bruise. Next time, you should use your brain instead of your palm when you want to figure out what your husband is up to. Next time you touch my fiancée, I'll make sure cuffs go around the wrists of yours. I don't care how much money you have lady."

Molly gasped as Jax grabbed Dani's hand and dragged her back to their cabin.

"I swear I wasn't trying to seduce him. I was just afraid he'd fall into the lake," Dani said as they entered their cabin.

Jax didn't say anything.

"Are you mad?"

Silence.

"Jax...AppleJax?" Dani sang his name to try and get him to respond. "Are you giving me the silent treatment? You're acting like a kid. Why are you mad at me? Jax? Fine, don't answer. Jaxass."

She was about to go into her bedroom when he responded, "It pissed me off."

Her mouth opened, ready to explain yet again that she wasn't trying to seduce Simon when he continued.

"She slapped you...and I didn't like it. When will you learn to stop putting yourself in danger?"

He crossed the living area and entered the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.

An hour later, Dani was in bed asleep.

She was giggling, a flirtatious sound, "Do you like me?" The beautiful woman was above him, her weight pressing down on his body.

"No," he answered.

"No?" she asked playfully before giving him a quick peck on the lips. "Then...do you love me?"

"Yes," he answered.

"Much better," she giggled again.

"Don't ever leave me, okay?" he was holding her face in place and she turned her head to kiss his palm.

"I'd never leave you. I'll always be here," she pointed to his heart.

"But I want you here," he joked as he wrapped his legs around her, trapping her in his embrace.

"Prove it," she rubbed her chest against his and he groaned. He felt something wet on his stomach and reached between them.

It was blood.

He looked up to see the woman holding her stomach in pain.

"What's wrong with you? What's going on?"

A man appeared behind her dressed in a black hoodie, his face hidden.

"Help me," the woman whispered.

The hooded figure was holding a knife that he brought up to her neck, "Choose one brother dearest. Is it her or is it me?"

"Stop it! What are you doing? Leave her alone!"

The hooded figure quickly grabbed the woman to a corner. The man could see the knife flying into the air and back into the darkness. The woman's cries echoed all around him but he couldn't move. He was frozen. He was worthless.

Finally the hooded man stopped. He tossed the knife to the ground and bent over the woman, pulling something from one of her fingers. He turned to the man and tossed whatever he had taken onto the bed, "Is that all you can do brother? Sit back and watch? You're pathetic. Me or her. You couldn't decide so I helped you. I chose for you. That's what loving someone is about."

The man stared at the faceless figure, too afraid to look away.

"Until next time, brother," the hooded man quietly walked out of the room as if nothing had just happened. The man stared at the woman, now a distorted mess and back to the item that was thrown at him.

It was a diamond ring, covered in blood.

Dani awoke gasping for air. She looked around her and noticed that she was all alone. She took a deep breath before wiping the tears from her face. She padded to the door of her bedroom and opened it a crack to see Jax, sleeping on the sofa. She had recognized the ring from her dream. It was the one she had seen around Jax's neck. She closed the door and sighed.

She had finally seen one of Jax's nightmares.