‘A bit full of yourself aren’t you? She snapped.
‘When it comes to you yes!’ he grabbed her face and kissed her deeply.
Alexia and Sarah stood there gobsmacked and couldn’t take their eyes off them even though they knew they should.
Sarah soon managed to pull her eyes away as she noticed Sam had walked up to her and her eyes went wide.
‘Hey stranger, how’s everything going?’ Sam said with a smile.
‘Yeah fine thanks, how are you? You're looking really good,’ she said, eyeing him up and down. He had short blond hair which had a messy style on top. He was a lot broader than Matt and much quieter, more gentlemanly. His fitted t-shirt defying every muscle in his arms, chest and abs, under her breath she whispered, ‘really good.’
He pretended not to hear and smiled at her, ‘I’m fine thanks and you’re looking great too,’ he then gave her a hug, however it was more of a “god please never let me go again” hug rather than a quick friendly “hello” hug. As they pulled away from each other they knew there was something still there and they had both felt it.
Alexia watched the exchange between them and made a mental note to grill Sarah later about the hotness that practically oozed between them and Tracy for the very sexual hotness that was oozing off both of them.
*******
It was time for them to do their performance and little did they know that James, Matt and Sam were watching. Their attention never left the girls the whole time they danced to the music, watching them in awe as they danced around the ring and loving every moment. That was until the last song when Amber, Ben and Ellie started singing and dancing to Disney’s “A Star is Born.” The guys all looked at each other in disbelief and back again at the ring. It was like looking at Alexia, James and Sarah when they were nine so there was no denying who they belonged to. All they could do was stare at them.
‘What the fuck? Alexia and Sarah have children? Matt said in shock. ‘Oh James man, there’s no denying they are yours, shit me.’
Rachel came and stood next to James trying to look every inch the perfect wife and wrapped her arm around his waist, as they’re in public he puts his arm around her shoulder, an awkward exchange considering he can see Alexia right in front of him and two children who look suspiciously like him. As they pulled away from each other she looked up and gasped in shock. She can see who’s on stage and panic strikes her.
“Excuse me but Alexia has a lot of explaining to do!’ he said and stormed off to his changing room, Rachel followed him.
******
Alexia turned round and watched James storm out thinking he’s mad that she has brought the children after he told her he wanted nothing to do with them. After the performance has finished Tracy tells her and Sarah to get the kids home as she saw the whole thing and she will finish off. Alexia grabbed the kids as they came out of the changing rooms and Sarah grabbed Ellie to take them home.
*****
Back in his changing room James was angrily pacing the floor with Rachel sat looking up at him. He punched the mirror, ‘HOW THE FUCK COULD SHE KEEP THEM FROM ME!!!!!’ he shouted so loud it was almost a roar. Glass flew everywhere and Rachel screamed. She went over to him and put her hand on him, ‘Baby please stop, you're scaring me.’ He looked at her and she had tears running down her face. ‘Oh fuck this, I need some air.’ With that he walked out.
11
Rachel thought she had got away with what she had done all those years ago. She knew he only married her because....well.....it could've been anyone quite frankly he only ever loved Alexia and Rachel hated that fact and was so very jealous. They slept in separate beds and he had never had full on sex with her, they only ever did oral, which annoyed her because she was hoping to trap him even more by getting pregnant but at least she got one over Alexia and got to call him her husband. Rachel started to pick up the broken glass and caught herself on a piece splitting her skin. She pulled her finger to her mouth and sucked on it whilst trying to find a plaster in her bag, she caught a glimpse of herself in a broken piece of the mirror. She was the image of Hayden Panettiere and knew she looked good.
“I deserve better than this, I deserve James and she is NOT going to take him away from me” she thought to herself.
12
Later that evening James was waiting backstage trying to focus on his fight but was still reeling from discovering Alexia had his children. The next thing he knew his music started for him to go out and the crowd were going wild chanting his name. He walked out and focused on getting to the cage. As he walked past the fans they were shouting things at him: “Knock him out man, you can do it” from the men and “I love you James” from the women as they all tried to get a little touch of him. He stood at the cage entrance whilst one of the officials checked his mouthpiece, checked his gloves and then searched him before allowing him to go into the cage and stand in position and warm up. The process was repeated on his opponent Mike Hudson. Whilst James waited for him to join him in the ring, He took a few minutes to look him over. He was the same build as James although a couple of inches smaller than him. He had dark hair which he couldn’t tell if it was dark brown or black due to the lights and he had brown eyes. He watched him as he got into the ring and waited in his position, smirking at James.
“Yeah, you can smirk now pal, I’m in a bad fucking mood and can’t be arsed with this shit tonight so you’re going down,” James thought to himself as he continued to watch Mike.
Once they were both in the ring ready to start a guy walked in wearing the most ridiculous gold sparkly jacket carrying a microphone.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the main event oooooooffffff the evening!’ His voice boomed around the club making the crowd go wild and start chanting James’ name and stamping their feet and clapping their hands.
‘Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, ARE YOU READY?’ he shouted and the crowd went wild with more cheering and chanting, “I said... ARE YOU READY!!!’ he shouted again and the crowd cheered and screamed even louder. ‘Alright then iiiiiiiiIIIIITTTTTTSSSSS fffiiigggghhhhtttttt TTTTIIMMMmmmeeeee! Introducing first, fighting out of the red corner, this man is a mixed martial arts fighter and is still undefeated, it’s our home boy JAY TAYLOR!!’ The crowd go wild screaming and cheering and James raised his arms to acknowledge them as he paced the floor, adrenaline pumping through his every muscle.
‘And now his opponent, fighting out of the blue corner, this man is a mixed martial arts fighter with a record of eight wins, nine loses and one draw, It’s MIKE HUDSON!’ There’s a small crowd cheering for him but the boo’s from James’ fans are louder by far. The ref now moves into the middle and asks both men to move in as well. The announcer stood behind the ref and bellowed into the microphone once again:
‘Here we go guys, three fights. Any questions for me?’ They both shake their heads to answer no, ‘Protect yourselves at all times, and listen to what I’m saying at all times. If I say stop, you stop. Touch gloves and let’s get ready for war.’
Both fighters touched gloves, stood back in their places and put their fists up. The ref asked if they were ready and they nodded their heads in agreement. The ref shouted “round one” and the bell rang. They both moved towards each other and James immediately started punching Mike in the head forcing him back again the cage before kicking him in the side and continuing to punch him.
As James got ready to throw another punch, Mike all of a sudden grabbed him to swing him round and slammed him into the cage, ending up in the clench position. After several attempts James managed to get Mike off him and gain control, as he pushed him away he kicked out and got Mike right in the side. They scuffled to the floor and Mike wrapped his legs round James to try to stop him but it was no good, James continued to punch him. Suddenly James jumped up and kicked Mike whilst he was trying to stand up. The ref stepped in and put his arm out in front of James to allow Mike to stand up. Once Mike was back on his feet James w
asted no time going for him again, punching him up against the cage. James then looked for the take down and got it. He got Mike into the triangle choke and after several seconds the ref stepped in and James got his victory. After the fight, he didn’t speak a word to Rachel on the way home to their £3.5 million mansion. He got out the car and went straight into his office and locked himself in. Rachel walked passed the office door and shouted, ‘Good Night then my darling loving husband,’ with the most sarcasm she could find within her. James opened the door and glared at her.
‘I’m going to see Alexia tomorrow to get an explanation from her,’ he snapped and slammed the door again.
Rachel opened the door with force, ‘Well I’m coming with you then! And I’m not taking no for an answer!’ She said as she slammed the door back shut again. ‘Shit Shit Shit, What the fuck am I going to do?’ she thought to herself as she went to her room.
13
After spending most of the night finding out where Alexia lived, James and Rachel sat outside her house and waited for her to come back from dropping the children off with Tracy. He was thinking about how he was going to deal with this and what he was going to say. He was really trying to control his anger which wasn’t easy.
As he watched her pull into her drive he pulled his car forward to stop her getting her car out.
She climbed out the car, oblivious to her surroundings. She closed the door of her car and locked it and then found her house key. As she turned around she jumped out of her skin.
‘Jesus Christ James, you scared the hell out of me!’ she looked at him and then to Rachel and as soon as she made eye contact with her, anger was evident on her face.
James glared at her, ‘We need to talk, don’t you think!’ It was a statement rather than and question, so as she walked to her front door and unlocked it she was preparing herself for and argument.
They walked into her kitchen and she put the kettle on, ‘Cut to the chase James and tell me what you want?’
‘What I want? WHAT I WANT? He shouted. Rachel flinched at him but Alexia just stood staring at him seemingly not bothered by his shouting.
‘Well done, that’s what I said, you're a very clever man but you didn’t answer my question and DON’T shout at me! Got it!’
James continued to stare down at her but soon realised that she wasn’t intimidated by him and was not going to back off so he stepped back. Rachel was gobsmacked.
‘Now I will ask you again, what do you want?’
‘You know exactly what I want Alexia, don’t act dumb. I saw my children in the ring last night and don’t say they’re not mine, I’m not stupid.’ Rachel came up beside him and put one arm around him and the other hand on his arm rubbing up and down and she kissed his face, ‘baby calm down, we’ll get this sorted but being angry isn’t going to help.’ She smirked at Alexia, ‘Did you hear we got married?’
‘Rachel.....fuck off you stupid blond bitch! I really don’t care that you got him. From what I hear he’s not all that now anyway, he’s just a big bully so you’re welcome to him and thank god MY children don’t know him because I wouldn’t want them growing up in his world anyway!’
James looked at her with anger, ‘You fucking what?’
‘You heard, thank fuck that my babies don’t know you because the way you’ve turned out, I dread to think what you would have done with them, and if you think I’m going to allow you to have access to them with you being a loan shark and fighter you can do one!’ She was right up against him, face to face and wasn’t scared of him at all. ‘You chose to not have anything to do with them James, you’re the one who said you didn’t want them because Rachel was your priority as she had lost a baby, so don’t you dare blame me for this!’
Rachel’s heart started pounding but she managed to keep a straight face on her knowing that she wouldn’t have any proof after all this time.
‘What the fuck are you talking about? Why are you making all this shit up?’ he asked.
‘I didn’t make it up, I emailed you when I had my 12 week scan and you emailed back after not returning my calls.’
‘I never emailed you and you never called!’ he said with a look that threw her. Was it anger or was it confusion? She didn’t know which.
‘I did, I’ll prove it to you, I’ll go get the emails and the text now.’ She ran up to her office.
Rachel stepped back and sat on a chair, hoping that Alexia was bluffing but when she came back in with hard copies of the emails and texts that she had printed off and she felt sick. ‘Fuck,’ she mumbled to herself. James heard her and narrowed his eyes. He took them from Alexia and he couldn’t believe what was in front of him.
He started reading it out loud.
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
James,
I know we left things in a pickle and I left leave suddenly but I have been trying to call you. I don't know what's going on with you but I didn't think you'd ignore me and make me feel like the bad guy when you were the one who cheated…………
He heard Rachel gasp so he turned to look at her pale face and then back at the paper to continue reading it quietly in his head.
Anyway, the reason I have been calling you is because I am 14 weeks pregnant with our babies! Yes babies.....it's twins. Despite everything I don't want you to miss out in them
Please call me!
I still love you loads,
Alexia.
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To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Alexia,
After everything that happened I have decided to be with Rachel, she has been with me since you left and we have fallen in love. She has recently lost a baby so I don't think it would be a good idea to be involved with the twins.
I will however have £1000 transferred on the 1st of every month to you for them and I don't wish to hear from you again, I have changed all my details and will be moving in with Rachel soon so will not have this email address anymore.
Good luck,
James.
When he’d finished with the emails he went on to read the text messages that she had printed out. He was shocked that Alexia had in fact texted and phoned him. He placed the paperwork back on the worktop and turned to face Rachel who was so pale by now, she could have been dead. To say there was anger evident on his face was an understatement, he looked like he wanted to murder her.
‘Alexia can you give us a moment please?’ he said through gritted teeth and kept his glare on Rachel. Alexia slowly walked out of her kitchen but before she closed the door she turned round and looked at James, he broke his glare from Rachel and looked back at Alexia. ‘Any trouble and I’ll be back in here and kicking both your arses,’ James smiled to himself knowing full well she would.
Looking back at Rachel he could feel the anger build up in him. ‘You did that didn’t you?’
‘Yes,’ she whispered looking at the floor.
‘I didn’t hear you!’
‘YES,’ she shouted.
‘Why?’
‘Because she hurt you, I was protecting you! Plus I had finally got you, I have been in love with you since we were 14 and you never gave me a second glance until she left. When she emailed that I couldn’t bare to lose you,’ she cried.
‘You took my children away from me! Not only that, you made up that crap about losing a baby, unless you were shagging someone else and were really pregnant?’
She shook her head, ‘No, I just wanted her to never come back and I never meant to take them away, I wasn't thinking, I just wanted you James,’ she sobbed.
‘Rachel look at me.’
She slowly looked up until she met his gaze, ‘Rachel I never loved you. You were always a convenient fuck, and that was disappointing why do you think I haven’t bothered in years? I was only with you because I lost it when she le
ft and I felt sorry for you.’
He walked to the back door and looked out at the garden. ‘I want you gone, go home and pack your bags and get the fuck out of my house.’
She gasped and walked over to him, she put her hands on him. ‘No baby please don’t do this, please don’t kick me out, I’m sorry, I’ll do anything but please don’t do this, I love you.’
He pushed her away, grabbed her arm and dragged her out to the car. He put her in the passenger seat, got in and drove off.
When they got home he dragged her out of the car, through the house and up to her bedroom and he pushed her on the bed. He grabbed a bag and started to throw all her things in it.
‘James stop, you can’t do this to me.’
‘Watch me!’
‘I’m your wife!’
‘Not for much longer!’
‘I will take you for everything!’
‘I’d like to see you try, you see you’re not the only one who can play games Rachel, I managed to get you to sign a pre-nup one night when you thought you were signing some papers for the loans. You can’t get anything, the only thing you can get is the £857 that was in your bank when we married, now get the fuck out!’
James threw her bag out and shouted Sam and Matt to come and get her and take her away.
‘YOU CAN’T DO THIS JAMES!’ she shouted as the guys carried her out, ‘I WILL GET YOU FOR THIS!
14
The next morning Alexia was putting the laundry out on the washing line when she heard and car pull up on her drive, she walked round to the front and watched James get out of his car and walk up to her.
‘You look awful,’ she said.
‘Thanks, I didn’t sleep last night.’
‘Ummmm it was a strange night.’
‘Where are they kids?’
‘They stayed at Tracy’s for the night. Do you want to come in?’
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