Paige

* BH
* Aftermath
* Resort

## Relationships

* Relatives
* Other

* Sal Simone (father)
* Blair (mother)
* Jacklyn (daughter)
* Sammy (half sister)
* Angel (half sister)
* Viki (half sister)
* Unnamed (half sister)
* Unnamed (step-father)

* Jacky (lover)
* Ryan (former boyfriend) †
* Maria (former friend)

**Paige Blackheart** (born **Paige Marianne Simone**) also legally known as **Sarah Black** is one of the main characters in the *Blackheart* saga. She is currently the owner and manager of the Blackheart Resort, and a math teacher.

## Background

Paige never knew her real dad as he left the family when she was still very young. When was 11 her step-father used to sneak into her room while her sister was away with friends. There was a point where Paige couldn't tolerate the situation anymore and attacked the man with an iron, which in turn made her mother believe her enough to have Paige moved to Blackheart Hotel. However her sister resent her for it and blamed it on Paige the breaking up of their family. The man still lives with the family while Paige is often sent away to the hotel for weeks without a call.

## Personality

Often described as weird, Paige is a quiet yet flirty girl. She claims to not care about life in general but likes to get high.

She has suicidal tendencies by own admission, claiming to have tried to kill herself at least five times during the month the events of *BH* take place.

Paige grows to like Jacky because she sees much of her in him, lets her be and opened up the possibility of "some type of happiness" according to her, She not only has no issue with his mischievous acts, but she encourages him to do them and is glad to partake when giving the chance. However, she states she must be present if Jacky fucks someone, otherwise she'll consider it cheating and is willing to kill him for it. Her devotion and loyalty to him goes as far as to commit murder if necessary to protect them both, this was demonstrated when she suspected Chan could betray them and Paige not only threaten her to kill her but also her entire family.

Jacky suspects her attachment towards him is caused by her unstable persona more than anything, since they barely knew each other and she was already willing to kill for him.

## Blackheart Hotel

As common occurrence Paige is left in the hotel by his mother and she exchanges a few words with Jacky and asks him as a favor to get her some drinks, which he denies since she is barely 18. Then she goes to her room.

Paige asks Troy to contact Jacky in order to talk to him about something without giving too much information on the matter. Her intentions were to seduce him into buying alcohol, this proves successful at the end for her.

Glenda shortly interviews Paige about Jacky and his involvement in Sandy's disappearance. With her own agenda in mind, she hides her information in hopes of getting something in return eventually.

Aware Stacy is not the only who has been talking with Glenda, Jacky visits Paige. She promises to keep silence as long as she is supplied of any kind of drugs to her consumption.

After the shootout with Tony, both Paige and Jacky are taken hostage by Anthony in his Sicily bunker.

3 months later, Zhu contacts Vance, Asha and Marcus to set off in a mission to rescue Jacky and Paige from Anthony, Sal's daughter who were also captured as freed as well. As they head out off the bunker, they are ambushed by the Deluccis men, having Paige close to giving birth they have no choice but to flee leaving Marcus to Anthony's mercy.

Soon after his daughter's birth, Jacky decides to marry Paige with her father's blessing. Happiness doesn't last long as they are attacked by Anthony himself who shots Vance and Jacky. Sal manages to attack Anthony back before he has the chance to kill Paige however he quickly flees the place. Jacky goes after him, fully decided to put him down for good this time.

Paige and her father try to stop Jacky from getting on the plane to no avail. Minutes later they observe as the jet explodes and crashes into unknown territory seemingly killing both Jacky and Anthony.

Some time later, a funeral is held on Jacky's honor, with Marcus, Paige, Sal and Kenzie attending and leaving some departure words for him.

## Aftermath

Conflicted and hopeless after Jacky's death, Paige wandered for quite some time without a clear goal. Her longing becomes so drastic she starts having constant visions of him.

Eventually she leaves town, sleeping from bench to bench, roaming the city. After 3 months, one day she is woken up by a woman who offers her shelter and food. The lady's real intentions were those of seeking revenge for her sister Tamara's death by the hands of Jacky, this assassination plot doesn't go as she originally planned and Paige easily flips the situation on her favor, killing both Talia and her husband.

Glenda reaches out to Paige in hopes she will turn her father in, what she gets instead is her own death by the hands of Ryan, a man working closely for Paige, her partner in crime.

For a couple of years Paige went from place to place with Ryan committing all kinds of crimes, constantly changing her appearance and causing mayhem whenever they could. Her reputation gained her the title of *Highway Red*. She tried to pretend Ryan was Jacky with no effort, as she would realize he could not be replaced.

One day, after their usual killing, Ryan claims to be better than Jacky and tells Paige she needs to get over him after so many years, these words sting on her, giving her the enough of reason to kill him and quit the criminal life she was leading so far.

It's reported she killed over 40 people during this time, by her own admission it was closer 60.

With nowhere to go, Paige returned home. However she was still seek by the police. One day, while sitting alone in the streets she is found by Aidan who encourages Paige to pick herself and look for redemption. Her way of achieving this, was by suicide she thought, however she is not able to go through it and is later found by her father Sal who asks her to live for her daughter Jacklyn and not make the sames mistakes he did.

Sal through his countless resources offers his daughter the chance of a new life by changing her identity and gifting her a new home: The Blackheart Resort, a place where she could also work at.

## Trivia

* Even though they didn't formally marry as the ceremony was interrupted by Anthony, Paige carries out the Blackheart last name after *BH*.