hi guys, I'm back with a new chapter.
WE ARE NEAR FROM THE END OF THAT FIC! SO IT'S TIME TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT DEVIL CALLED: TESS. I hope you'll like that part and I'm waiting for your fb.
I just want to thank my faithful readers.
dreamer19 - you'll see here why Liz reacted this way
Liz86000 - you were right and I hope you'll like this part
0megaRam1- really happy to find you here again, you must think that I followed your idea, but no. It seems that we have some ideas in common.
Bixie- Sandra, please do get angry

Liz had the right to be disgusted, Max could have been with those young girls..hopefully not...but that industry is heavily corrupted and everything could happen there.
roswellluver- Thank you very much for your support.
I'LL UPDATE "A TIME TO FORGIVE" TWICE. FIRST TODAY AND THE SECOND PART "TESS'S CONFESSION" I HOPE TOMORROW.
IF YOU'RE INTERESTED TO KNOW WHAT TESS DID TO MAX THAT NIGHT....BE THERE FOR THE NEXT PART.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO LIZ IN "HATE..." YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT A LITTLE WHILE. I HOPE TO UPDATE IT BEFORE THE END OF THE WEEK.
Chapter 25
When Liz left, Max looked at Serena and Kyle dumbfounded. "I think I can understand her, after all I have slept with that monster in the past, well not so long ago, and she feels digusted..." he began to say but Serena cut him off, not letting him incriminate himself.
"Max, she just needs time. I know what kind of person she is. Pure and unbending, and it's hard for her to accept that people like Tess exist. It's harder to know that she works with people who are maybe involved in that trafic. For now she is shocked but I'm sure that she will come back to you as soon as she realizes that you have nothing to do with them."
"I must go after her and try to explain." he said stubornly. "If I leave her alone she won't make the difference between me and those people. What we have between us, what we just have shared will seem disgusting to her. I won't let that happen." he said and walked to the door.
"Max, don't say a word to Jake for now. Let me see what my superiors wants to do with Tess. After that we deal with him." Kyle said running after him.
He looked at him sadly. "Kyle, I'm sorry but Jake is not my priority for now. Don't worry, I won't tell him anything, I will wait for your call."
"Thank you." Kyle returned to sit next to Serena. "That's so sad, but I'm sure they will settle this misunderstanding. I'm sure that Max will find the words to make her see that he is innocent." he said with a smile.
"I don't know Kyle, it was hard for her to trust him because of Tess. And now he has to grovel to make her come back to him, and I'm not sure if she will accept. I think that their relationship has grown, and maybe she regrets that. We will see. So tell me what's going to happen now?" she asked worried.
"Well what do you think about you going out with me?" he said casting his eyes to the floor.
"Silly! I was talking about this mess!" she replied laughing. "So, you are not interested to go out with me?" he asked disappointed.
"Are you serious?" she asked."Absolutely! Serena, I'm not that kind of a man who asks a girl out without serious intentions, at least not anymore! Look, if you need time to think about...."he began be she cut him off. "No Kyle, I don't need time, I'd love to go out with you...WAIT!!! I agree to go out with you but I want you to go after Tess. I don't want her to win and to hurt them, I mean not only Max and Liz but most of all those little boys and girls she uses for the pleasure of those pig's. Make her pay for what she is doing."
Serena I promise you, she will pay for that." he said as he bent to brush her lips softly.
In the mean time, Max had caught up with Liz at the hotel. Actually, she was already in her room and Max hoped that she would want to talk to him. He knocked on her door. "Liz, please let me in." he begged her.
"I don't want to talk to you." she shouted through the door.
"Liz, we have to... Liz, please open the door, I just want to explain something to you and then I'll leave you alone, I promise."he whisperd, not wanting to create a scene with the neighbours.
He waited and after several minutes she opened the door slowly. When he saw her face, he groaned, she had been crying, her eyes were red and puffy. "Liz, honey.." he whispered.
"Come in Max." she said as she opened the door completely. "Tell me what you have to say and then leave." she said coldly.
She was worried and angry. She just heard those disgusting and horrible things about Tess and knowing that Max had slept with that monster. She couldn't forgive herself for her own stupidity and didn't want to be influenced by Max.
"Liz, I know what you heard....what we heard together about Tess was horrible and digusting, but I never slept with a young girl myself and I have never seen one of them at the parties I attended." he began his plead.
As Liz kept silent he continued. "Liz, I'm not one of them, I mean I might be a well-known moviestar, but I haven't lost my soul, I'm guilty of sleeping with Tess, to have used her body like a sexual object but I swear that I have never took advantage of my celebraty status. Liz, you know that for our business we're compelled to attend those parties, I don't like it, but if I want to work I have to do some things I don't like."
"Like what?" she cut him off. "Because I work too and I never have done something I didn't want to do Max. I'm my own Boss. Could you say the same about yourself?" she demanded.
"Yes, I swear to you that I have nothing to be ashamed of on my consience. Trust me Liz." he begged.
"Max, I did trust you. With my heart, my body and my soul. Do you remember?" she asked sarcasticly.
"How could I forget what we have shared Liz? It's here in my heart and my body too." he said putting his hand over his heart. "Liz, I've never felt for anyone what I feel for you. You're the one Liz. You will be the one until the last day of my life, I swear to you. I love you...so much, if you only knew." he finished with tears in his eyes.
"You're a good actor Max!" she cried out. " I'm not playing with you Liz, I've never done that and I never will, trust me Liz, and give me another chance. Give us another chance." he said pulling her in his arms. "Liz, you know that I'm madly in love with you, and you proved to me that you love me too. I know that you wouldn't have given yourself to me if you didn't love me and trusted me enough to do it. We have found something so special when we fell in love with each other. In our business love is just sex and there aren't a lot of couples who have found true love like we have. We can't let this distroy our lovestory." he said with passion and unable to restrain himself he kissed her fiercely.
Liz was surprized and tried to push him away. But she gave up and kissed him back. Sencing her surrender Max tightened his grip and deepened the kiss and groaned. He couldn't get enough of her and he was scared to death to lose her again.
Liz felt her body heaten up and she wrapped her arms around his neck. He was right, they had found true love, it would be stupid to let Tess or anthing else distroy what they have. Max carried her to the bed, she tightened her grip and smiled against his lips.
"Liz, I love you so much that it hurts and I know that you feel the same way." he said and she nodded. "Honey, we have each other and we won't let anything tear us apart. I want us to live together Liz, do you want to move in with me?" he asked shyly.
"Max, it's to soon. Don't get me wrong, I love you Max with all my heart but it's to soon. Let's enjoy what we have for now, we can always move in together when the time is right, okay?" she said and to show him that she intended to make that step one day, she lay on the bed and pulled him in her arms. "Max, make love to me, I want you." she whispered seductively in his ear.
He looked at her, dumbfounded at first, but then he pulled her in his arms, holding her tight as if he didn't want her to leave the circle of his arms, never. "Oh Liz, you are so amzing! I love you so much and I will till the end of my life." he said and began to kiss her everywhere. Her cheeks, her eyes, and swooped down onto her lips and ravaged her.
Max and Liz spent the night making love and talking about their future. They didn't get much sleep but they didn't care, they were too happy to be together and thought that they had enough time to rest and sleep later.
The next morning they arrived on the set, walking hand in hand. They went to Jake's office and were surprized to hear people cry out. Max opened the door and frooze at the doorway. Liz who was behind bumped into him when he stopped. "Max!" she whispered.
In front of them they saw Jake with his head in his hands. Kyle and another man were with him and they turned their heads when they saw Max and Liz enter the room.
"Max... Liz, I'm sorry. You are not allowed to come in here!" Kyle informed them.
"Why? What's going on here?" Max said worried about the way Jake was acting.
"Kyle? Has Jake something to do with Tess's trafic?" Liz whispered, not wanting to be heard by Jake and the other man.
"I'll be outside. Be back in a second." he said to the other man who nodded in response.
"Kyle, what are you doing here? And who is that man sitting in Jake's office?" Max asked really worried about Jake.
"That man is my superior, William Valenti, and yes he is my father too. We're here for Jake, it seems that he is involved with Tess or at least knows something about the trafic." he said annoyed. He knew that Jake was a good friend of Max, and that he trusted him. "I'm sorry Max."
"Are you sure? I mean, do you have proof that Jake has slept with young girls?" he asked alarmed.
"We're not sure but he didn't want to answer our questions. He is waiting for his lawyer." he said.
"His lawyer? Is it that bad that he needs a lawyer?" Max cut him off and shouted.
"Shh... Max, I'm not alowed to say this to you. I did because you are a friend of Serena, so keep quiet and we will see why he needs a lawyer. After all, it would be enough for him to tell the truth, we didn't accuse him for now, we just told him about Tess's trafic." he stated.
"And what are you doing about Tess? Did you already arrest her? Because if you questioning Jake, you should questioning Tess too." Max cut off sternly.
Liz stood by his side and stroked his arm. "Max, it's not Kyle's fault. He is here to talk to Jake and he didn't want to talk, am I right Kyle?" she asked. "Absolutely! Max he is still a free man and it's his choice to stay a free man or be accused for sleeping with minors!" he stated.
"I'm sorry Kyle. You know, I can't believe that he might be guilty, I know nothing is proven yet.. but if he is I'll be shocked, he is my friend and I have known him for years. Can you understand that?" he asked devastasted.
"Max, Kyle does understand you and don't worry, maybe Jake is protecting someone else. Geezz! He is a father himself, he can't be sleeping with young girls, it's impossible!" Liz said shocked.
"KYLE!" Mr.Valenti called.
"I'm here, what's up?" Kyle asked."
"Who are these people?" Mr.Valenti asked looking at Max and Liz. "I know your face, mister...." he said to Max.
"Max Evans, I'm an actor." introduced himself holding out his hand.
"Yeah, I know you. I mean I saw one of your movies. What are you doing here? And who is this young woman?" he asked again and pointing to Liz.
"Dad, this is Liz Parker, she's an actress too. Max and Liz are the lead actors in the last movie of Jake Timson. They are here because they have to work today." Kyle explained.
"I'm sorry Max and Liz, but I'm not sure that you will work today. We have a problem with your director, so I sugest that you go back to your hotel and Kyle will call you back." he stated.
"Mr Valenti, I know why you're here. That is, Serena a friend of mine was the one who called Kyle to aks him to find something about Tess. I'm involved here as a friend of Jake, I can't go back and leave him. I'm sorry, I want to ask you if you can allow us to stay with him." Max pleaded with William Valenti.
"I don't have any problems with that, and maybe you can help us." he said.
"Help? How can I help you?" Max asked surprised.
"Come this way." he said leading Max and Liz into another room and closing the door behind him. "Tell me Mr.Evans, you said that Jake Timson is a good friend of you. Did you attended the same parties as he did? I mean, do you have something to do with this trafic." he asked coldly. His blue eyes looking straight in Max's eyes.
Liz gasped and put her hand over her mouth, and Max was too shocked to answer. When he took a breath he felt the gall rising in his throat and his stomach turned. "WHAT??? Of course not!!" he shouted. You think that because I'm a friend of Jake I have something to do with that disgusting trafic?" he screamed, hurt to hear that he was almost accused as one of those monsters.
"Not only because you're a friend of Mr.Timson but I also checked Tess Harding her files. Your girlfriend so it seems!!! So I have all the right reasons to thinks that maybe you took advantage of that trafic too. I wouldn't be surprized, this industry is completely corrupted!" he said disgusted.
"Mr.Valenti, I'm sure that you don't think that I took part in that trafic too?" Liz asked slowly. Mr.Valenti shook his head and glanced at Max who looked at Lizx amazed to see her ask that question. "Why not? I could have been a provider or a pimp like Tess, what is the difference between us? Why don't you accuse me to have taken advantage of that trafic too?" she urged Willian Valenti.
"Miss Parker? Look, I was in this squad even before you were born and I know when I see a person if she honest or corrupted..." he began to explain but Liz cut him off. "So I assume that you have dicided that I am honest and that Max is corrupted? Why? What is there in Max's attitude that tells you that he is corrupted? Just because he slept with that monster? He broke up with her and we are together now. Because he knows people who are suspects? I hope that you have found proof of these things that you are accusing him off, if not not then you have no right to accuse him! Let alone charge him!" she said with passion in her voice. She looked up at Max and send him a bright smile and took his hand in hers and squeezed it. Max mouthed, "I love you so much!"
There was a vibrant silence in the room. Kyle was looking at his father and then at Liz, thinking that Max was lucky to be loved by that woman. Mr.Valenti came close to thinking the same thing. They were all staring at each other when they heard, "She's completely right, Mr Valenti! Max is innocent." Jake Timson said startling them.
"Jake!" Max said, surprized to see the director here to defend him. "I couldn't let him accuse you Max. The only thing you are guilty of is that you have slept her, that's all. You didn't know what she was doing." he said flatly. "And you Mr.Timson, are you guilty? Do you have anything to do with this?" Mr.Valenti asked with a sacastic tone.
"Don't answer that, Jake." a man stepping in the room said sternly. "I'm Frank Potter, Mr.Timson's lawyer. If you agree Mr.Valenti, I would like to talk to my client in private." and without waiting for an answer, he walked out of the room with Jake right behind him.
William Valenti was pissed because of the lawyer's behavior and glared at his son. "He thinks that he is the KING or what? He forgot that I'm the Law and I can give his client a hard time if I want too, I mean, if he has something on his conscience." he said angry and the room fell in silence again.
They were waiting for Jake and his lawyer for almost 30 minutes now. Max asked if somebody wanted coffee or something but they all said no. He was going to ask Liz to step outside until Jake would return when the door opened. Frank Potter stepped in followed by Jake, who looked very pale.
"Okay Mr.Valenti, I have talked with my client.... Wait a minute, who are you?" he asked Max and Liz coldly.
"I'm Max Evans and this is Liz Parker, we are friends of Jake and we are his leading actors." Max answered.
"And you are alowed to be here? Is this not a private meeting?" he asked with a glare to Mr.Valenti.
"As long a Mr.Timson agrees to have them here, I have no problem with it.' He stated.
"Okay, as I said, I have talked to my client, and we agreed to coopertate with you. But only under one condition. My client agrees to give you all the information you need and you don't charge him. I mean here is the deal, all the names of the persons involved in the trafic for his freedom. The ball is in your camp now." he said sternly. Mr.Valenti nodded and without a word took Jake's statement.
Max and Liz looked at Jake, shocked, HE KNEW. He knew and he didn't do anything to save those children from their misery. They hoped that he didn't sleep with one of them, that would be so awful. They were staring at him to make him return their stares, but Jake was ashamed, ashamed to have betrayed them. He stayed eyes locked to the floor
"Before we begin Mr.Timson, I want you to call Tess Harding and tell her to come here to your office. We know that she is the pimp. We are going to arrest her."
"Why here? Why in my office? She will know that I gave you her name." he asked anxiouly.
"No, Miss Harding knew that we were watching her for all those years. She knows us, but we never had enough proof to arrest her. That problem is settled now. Call her and give her a rendez-vous in one hour. We will be finished then.' he said cutting off the discusion.
Jake took the phone and dailed her number. "Hello? Tess, hi this is Jake speaking. Yeah Jake Timson. Tess I need you to come to my office in.. let's see one hour, is that okay with you? Fine, I will be waiting for you. Bye Tess." he hung up and came to sit in front of Mr.Valenti, ready to talk.
TBC.....IF YOU WANT................................................
the way he looks into her eyes.....