Starlight Shores, at Mike and Miranda Langerak’s house...

During his trip to Starlight Shores, after visiting Cassandra at the Steele house following her breakup with Dean, Tony went to see his brother Mike, who invited him to lunch to catch up on recent events.

Tony told Mike how he had almost gone to bed with Cassandra in a moment of weakness. Mike thought it strange that his brother had not taken such an ideal opportunity to win back his beloved ex-wife. Tony explained that he hadn't wanted to go through with it because he couldn't propose anything serious to Cassandra, since he was now married to Jeannine. 

"I don't understand why you did that."

"Why I did what?".

"Marrying Jeannine when everyone knows you're still in love with Cass," Mike replied. 

"True," Tony replied, "But I also have feelings for Jeannine."

"Not what you feel for Cassandra."

"Maybe not, but I love her too, and besides I thought I owed her after so long together. We already have four children, three of them are just babies, they need me." 

"You also have four children with Cassandra."

"But they don't need me anymore. Simon, Daniel and Jessica are all grown up now, they have their own families. Bradley will be leaving for college soon, and they all know I'll always be there for them, plus, it's not like Cassandra wanted to get back together with me. She looked happy with Lothario, she was going to marry him, for God's sake! If she asked to see me it was only because he cheated on her and she wanted to get even."

"Nonsense, I think she really regrets divorcing you, and she doesn't know how to ask you to come back to her. But anyway, it's your decision, bro, just keep in mind that this might be your last chance to get Cass back."

" You think so? How do I know she still loves me, that she's not in love with this Lothario character."

"Of course she's not in love with him, but she's proud and doesn't want to admit she was wrong about that guy. Besides, she called Miranda a while ago, told her what happened between you two. Miranda says she sounded excited, or rather, hopeful."

"Really? Wow, that's...  Anyway, I can't leave Jeannine now, I mean, we're newlyweds, we were honeymooning in France when Antoine called to tell me that Cass needed me."

"And you came running to see her, that must mean something."

Tony was speechless, what could he say, Mike was absolutely right.