Carly was certifiable. She had to be. There was no other explanation, Jason decided as he dropped down onto the couch beside her. "Carly, you know that Brenda isn�t stupid. She�s going to come to the same conclusions that I did."
"I don�t care if she knows I got you two in bed together. But, Jason . . . she doesn�t have to know that you two didn�t . . . you know . . ." Carly grinned.
"You know I�m not going to lie." He told her sternly.
"You don�t have to lie . . . exactly! You can tell her a version of the truth! You don�t remember if you had sex or not. I mean, she woke up with a hickey, which you have to admit was pure genius on my part." Carly stopped laughing when Jason fixed her with a look. "Okay, let me put it this way. Forget Brenda. Do you want to do what�s best for Courtney?"
"You know I don�t want to hurt Courtney. But we can�t forget Brenda! What makes you think that she would even go along with something like this?"
"You don�t have to give her a choice, Jason. I mean, obviously if you two had sex then you can�t get an annulment . . . and surely she wouldn�t want to divorce you until after she knew whether or not she�s pregnant. That means you only have to put up with her . . . well, I don�t know what her cycle�s like . . ."
Jason didn�t want to talk about Brenda�s monthly cycle with Carly. Hell, he didn�t even want to think about it.
" . . . a month, tops."
He couldn�t even believe he was considering this. I mean, on one hand, it really was a lot of fun baiting Brenda. She always reacted so violently to everything. This would definitely take his mind off Courtney and provide him with some entertainment over the next couple of weeks. But then . . . this was Brenda they were talking about here! Jason didn�t have a chance to respond because the penthouse door flew open just as he opened his mouth.
"Tell me, Jax, do all Australians lack manners or is it just you?" Carly was already at the top of her game, advancing on the tall blonde.
"Where�s Sonny?" Jax demanded.
"Why do you want to see Sonny, Jax?" Jason asked, standing up tiredly. Between conversations with Carly and Brenda, he was getting worn out.
"I�m here to warn him that ordering you to seduce Brenda is not going to work. He�s not going to keep us apart any longer. First he orders that farce of a marriage . . ."
"Whoa . . farce of a . . ." Carly laughed. "Jaxie, I think you�re forgetting that Brenda proposed to Jason, not the other way around."
"She wasn�t in her right mind. Brenda is committed to me and it�s best you remember that." Jax focused on the man standing beside Carly.
"Yeah, I can see that." Jason nodded. "So committed that she uh . . . left you somewhere in the Caribbean to come back to me. So in love that uh . . . she didn�t get on the plane to Lisbon because I wasn�t going. So wrapped up in you that she has a hickey on her neck that was . . . not put there by you. And just for the record, Sonny didn�t have anything to do with that, either."
Mentally, Carly was jumping up and down and screaming. Hot damn! Looks like Jason was gonna stick to her plan after all. Oh, yeah . . . he liked Brenda. He just didn�t know it. She didn�t believe for a second that he was baiting Jax just because of his intense dislike for the man. And she had to hand it to him - he hadn�t lied.
"Now, if you�ll excuse me . . . I have to get home to my . . . wife. Carly, tell Sonny I came by." Jason headed for the door. He had to get back to the cottage and try to talk to Brenda. He didn�t know exactly what he was going to say yet but he could already feel the headache coming on . . . this was not going to be the fun part.