""You have a son," Raquel blurted out. She'd wasted little time in getting to the point. "We have a son together. His name is Max." Mateo shook his head slightly. He was furious for the way that Raquel was continually pushing him to his limits. Now, Mateo felt badly for having defended Raquel to Hayley and his friends only to have her pull what he thought was another of her shenanigans. He warned her that she'd be sorry of she ever repeated "that lie" to anyone else. Raquel was insistent that she was not lying. In fact, she swore on "the Blessed Mother" to prove that she was telling the truth. Mateo again found himself trying to convince Raquel that their relationship was over. Raquel told Mateo their relationship would "never be over." She admitted that she'd considered leaving Pine Valley when Mateo first shunned her, but she implied that she did not leave because she wanted her son to meet his father. Mateo apologized for having hurt Raquel, saying that that was never his intention. Finally, Raquel seemed to come to the conclusion that she was not going to be a part of Mateo's life. She told Mateo that she now understood that he'd chosen Hayley over her. Max, however, was "blood of [his] blood" that could not be annulled away. Mateo scrunched up his face and argued that he and Raquel could not have conceived a child because they'd only been together a few days. Raquel reminded Mateo that it only takes "one time" to make a baby. With that basic anatomic revelation came something a bit more impressive: the truth about why Raquel and Mateo's marriage had never been annulled. The Dions pushed for an immediate divorce once they learned of Mateo and Raquel's divorce or annulment. Raquel, knowing that she was pregnant, refused to have sign the annulment papers because she did not want her baby to be "a bastard." Mateo looked around and realized that the mausoleum was not the best place to discuss this matter. Raquel suggested that they go back to her motel room, but Mateo wasn't sure that that was the best place to talk either. He asked Raquel why she'd waited so long to tell him her big news. He silently hoped that his question would trip up Raquel. Raquel told Mateo that she wanted to make sure that he was still the same "'teo" she'd fallen in love with... for Max's sake.
In the castle at Wildwind, Hayley dreamt that she and Mateo had a child of her own. Hayley held the baby closely, but when Mateo entered the room he demanded to know where their child was. Hayley looked down and suddenly realized that there was no baby in her arms. She looked up to find her husband, but he mysteriously disappeared as well. Using rather crude dream analysis, it seemed like Hayley's subconscious mind believed that she would lose Mateo if she could not give him a child. Hayley woke up from her nightmare screaming. Ryan must have been passing by in the hallway because he knocked on the door and asked Hayley if she was okay. Hayley told him that he could enter her bedroom, but she refused to answer any question about why she was so upset. Ryan offered to find Mateo. Hayley, however, said that Mateo needed time alone. Hayley struggled to fight back tears and she softly told Ryan that she was unable to have a baby. Ryan was stunned by the news. He was under the impression that Hayley only needed to wait a little while before trying to get pregnant. Hayley brought Ryan up to date on her test results and Jake's warning that she might never be able to have a baby. Ryan urged Hayley to let her anger, hurt, and frustration out. He'd already seen her toss pillows and magazines across the room and suggested that she try something more breakable---like a chair or mirror. Hayley smirked slightly and then vented her feelings on an unsuspecting feather pillow. Little white feathers drifted across the room. Exhausted from the ordeal, Hayley fell to her knees at the end of the bed. "Is this the religious part of the program?" Ryan mused. Hayley admitted that she'd always had problems when it came to prayer and religion. Ryan had also never had a strong religious influence in his life. Ryan started off saying a prayer for Hayley---he claimed that prayers only worked if you were praying for someone else. "God, this is your basic message in a bottle," Ryan said meekly. He asked for some help for Hayley. Hayley's prayer was slightly less diplomatic. She asked God to swoop down and carry Raquel off to somewhere other than Pine Valley so that she could fall in love---with someone other than Mateo.
Hoping that he could dig up more information about what happened to Kit, Tad showed up at The Pit and began asking the bartender questions about what he'd seen. "Between you and me," the bartender remarked candidly, "I don't believe [her.]" Edmund arrived and sat in next to Tad at the bar. Tad claimed that he was trying to "be a good reporter," an insinuation that Edmund had been blinded by Kit's chicanery. The bartender told Edmund that after he'd left the bar, Kit became a wild woman. He said that Kit had given "the room a massage" when she began dancing with a man she'd spotted at the end of the bar. The bartender gave only a passing description of the man, saying he was young, had brown hair, and looked like he spent most of his life in the gym. He added that he was convinced that Kit and the man were going to have sex in the middle of the bar until Kit pushed the man away and he stormed off. Edmund became enraged when Tad suggested that Kit was concocted a tale about being raped to rope Jack and Edmund further into her web of deceit. He then went on to say that perhaps Kit pretended to have been raped because she'd been caught in the act of having sex with a man who was not Edmund. It was an outlandish claim and Edmund didn't stick around to hear the end of Tad's remarks. Left alone, Tad's mind drifted back to his days with at the Orsini Vineyard. As he worked the books, Kit snuck up behind him and gave him a back rub. Kit managed to convince Tad to put off work and the two shared a kiss.
The results of Jack's DNA test were conclusive and, as Jake pointed out, admissible in court. Jack stepped aside and read the results in private. "The findings are consistent with the genetic map [of] siblings." Jack's mouth gaped. He tossed the papers on a nearby chair and walked into Kit's room. Brooke had been standing nearby and scurried over to look at the papers Jack had effortlessly tossed aside. Her eyes widened as she read the results. Inside, Jack pulled up a chair and sat by Kit's bed. "Chrissy," he said fending off tears, "it's me... your brother." He knew that his sister must be in terrible pain and did his best to assure her that she was safe. He reflected back to a time when he and Christine had gone to a lake and spent the day together. Kit blinked her eyes and turned her head slightly in Jack's direction. The attorney apologized profusely for having doubted Kit's claim that she was his sister. He told her that he fought her because he "couldn't allow [himself] to have hope." Kit's turned a little more to the side until she was looking into her brother's face. "Dak?" she asked softly. Jack nodded his head and smiled slightly. He took Kit in his arms and the two burst into tears. Outside, Brooke looked on through a window in the door. Edmund returned to the hospital and feared that something bad had happened. "No," Brooke said, looking like she was about to cry too, "it's something wonderful."
Mateo agreed to go to Raquel's motel room. Raquel filled in the final pieces of the puzzle known as Max. Raquel's parents had placed her in a "home," of sorts, so that no one would know that she was pregnant. After giving birth, her baby was supposed to have been put up for adoption. The night after she delivered Max, Raquel slipped out of her room and headed to the nursery. She snuck past a nun that had been placed on sentry duty and wandered over to Max's crib. She could not fight to urge to hold her son---and once she felt her baby in her arms, Raquel knew that she could never let him be taken away from her. According to Raquel, she took Max and ran away from the home. As a result, she had not spoken to her parents since. Raquel held up the costume Max had worn to trick-or-treat and told Mateo that he had met his son on Halloween. The door to the room suddenly flew open and Max scampered inside. He told his mother that he'd "hit the ball" just like the man had told him to do. The man, of course, was Mateo. A smile emerged on Mateo's face as he looked at the little boy."
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