Kayla's POV

After I heard the front door close, I hear my phone ringing from the living room. I guess he didn't take it. I didn't care to answer it though. I just laid there for at least an hour until my stomach started cramping.

"Oh my god." I said out loud to myself. I can't believe he did this.

I start to have flashbacks of the other times I lost my baby and I start sobbing again. Alone in the situation again, I thought.

I heard my phone ringing again. This can't be anyone but Joe calling. I pull myself up and together long enough to get to the sofa, in the living room. My phone was laying on the coffee table. I reached over and called him back.

"Babe? Why haven't you been answering my calls?" I hear Joe say on the other end of the line and I just lose it all over again. I start crying hysterically.

"Kayla? What's wrong? What's going on?" Joe says, sounding like he's about to start panicking. "I'm here...I'm 20 minutes away. What's wrong?"

"Paul—."

"Paul?" He says sounding confused

"Um, I'm cramping." I say. The baby is more important right now. I'll let him know about the Paul thing after we get the baby situation handled.

"Do you think you're losing the baby?" He say calmly.

"....I don't know."

"I'm driving as fast as I can. If you are, I don't want you to be alone. We'll go through this together. Are you bleeding at all?"

"No, I don't think so."

"Well were going to the hospital anyway." He say, "I'm coming baby."

"Okay." Is all I say before I end the call.

I sit the phone back on the coffee table. I lay in silence for a couple of minutes, thinking about how I was going to tell Joe what happened tonight. I know he's going to lose his mind when he finds out he was her. He's going to kill him when he finds out that he put his hands on me and is the cause of all of this.

He walks through the door in less than 10 minutes and he runs over to me.

"Babe?" I hear him say. He wraps his arms around me, hugging me.

He begins asking me a bunch of questions back to back that I can't even answer. When he realized he wasn't getting anywhere with me, he scooped me up, took me down to the car and drove us to the hospital.

The hospital took forever and we waited for at least an hour before they saw us. Joe was going crazy on the staff and almost got arrested but once they finally saw us, they took me back, and we waited longer. I had to have a few tests and an ultrasound done, so we were waiting on them to bring up the equipment.

Joe was so upset with how everything went down and his nerves were shot. He was pacing the floor in the room and he kept checking his watch. The longer he waited, the more pissed off he got. I didn't want to make the situation worse but I had to tell him what happened and why this was going on.

"Um, babe?"

He quickly stops pacing, "Yeah, babe?"

"Can you stop and come sit down. I have to tell you something." I say, then pat the bed next to me.

He looks at me, and stands there. It's like he automatically knows I'm going to tell him something bad, "What happened?"

I take a deep breath and let it out, "I was out running errands and when I got back home Paul was in our condo."

"PAUL? WHAT THE FUCK?" He says, confused, "Is this because of him?"

"He punched me in my stomach three times."

"HE WHAT?" He yells, then walks over to the chair his jacket is laying in. He puts it on and walks over to me, "Take the car when and if they release you. I'm going to go talk to him." He says going into his pocket and handing me his keys but I stop him.

"No," I grab his hand. "Stay here, with me. We'll deal with that another time."

He steps back from me, "I need to take care of this. That motherfucker punched you, Kayla. I'm going to go see him right now." He says clearly pissed, but still calm.

"I need you here with me Joe. I can't go through this alone again. I need you. If I let you leave, I'm scared you won't come back. Please stay with me babe." I plead

He sighs, then puts his hands on the bed, on the sides of me, then leans on the bed, hovering over me. He looks me in my eyes and I know he wants to stay but I see he just might want to kill Paul a little bit more because he's fighting with himself.

It was silent for a while and I could tell he was in deep thought, "You're right." He stands up to his full height, "DAMNIT!" He yells in anger.

"Baby, just calm down and get over here and comfort me. Try not to think about that. Plus, I think I have a way to take care of him."

"But he was in the house, what kind of stalker shit is that? I don't have time to deal with his crazy ass. We have this baby, I got new AEW dates coming up. What time do I have to sit around and wonder when he's going to pop up? Then he put his hands on you, again, after I told him not to. Oh yeah, he's getting this ass whoopin again."

"I was thinking, you and Stephanie are such good friends, and I know she hates me but I was thinking about calling her. If anyone can put Paul his place, it would be her."

"That's true but I don't want to drag her into our drama."

"Oh please, every time you do something wrong, she's constantly looking the other way. She your friend, and she not going to do it for me but she will for you."

"That maybe true but—."

"I'm going to talk to her. I'm not asking you to do that I'm just saying, co-sign."

He sighs, "I don't like the idea of her fighting my battle with him, but if this is what you want and you think this is going to work to get him off of our backs, then I'll go with it for now."

"Thank you." Is all I say before the doctor comes in. "Your tests look good. We did the hormone test and they aren't dropping, so that means you're not miscarrying."

We both breathe a sigh of relief.

"You were right to come in and see a doctor though. Have you miscarries before?"

"Yes."

"So you've been through all of this before?" He asks looking at his chart.

"Yes."

"You just need to rest. Your blood pressure is a little high, so I'm going to label you as a high risk and I'm going to put you on bed rest. Meaning, no strenuous work, no being on your feet for long periods of time. You can go to the bathroom, cook dinner, do light work around the house, but other than that, you need to stay off your feet for as long as possible."

"Say no more. I'll be sure she does that, doctor. Thank you."

"The nurse will be in with your your release papers shortly." He says, then leaves.

"I'm going to kill him." Joe says, looking evil as hell.

"Hey, let me handle it." I say rubbing his back.

"Stop comforting me, I'm supposed to be doing that to you right now." He moves my hand from his back.

"Yeah, but you need it. If I don't calm you down you're going to explode."

"Aight, you better back up. The last time you calmed me down or comforted me, I got you pregnant." He says jokingly.

I laugh, "That's so true. You were so mad at—."

He cuts me off, "Don't even say her name."

"I wasn't. But anyway, I'm happy the baby is safe. Oh my god, I was freaking out."

"I know but everything is fine and we're going to be okay." He says and I believe him.

He always makes me feel better and so safe. He's such a protector, I love that about him and I believe I don't have to ever worry about him losing his temper with me, no matter how angry he gets, which is something I couldn't say about Paul. But this is how it should be. I love me some him.

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"Hey Stephanie, this is Kayla." I say nervously through the phone.

"Kayla?" She says sounding confused, and almost shocked.

"Yes."

"What the hell are you doing calling me?" She asks

"I was hoping we could talk about Paul."

"What about him? I thought you two broke up anyway. What the hell do you need to talk to me about, concerning him? He is only the father of my four girls, nothing more, nothing less. So whatever it is you think I can do for you, you're probably wrong." She says and now I'm second guessing this. She's just so intense and aggressive, even when she isn't trying to be. It's intimidating.

"I know you hate me, but I was hoping you could talk to Paul about leaving me alone. He showed up at my house the other day and-."

"Let me stop you right there Kayla. I don't care about what you two do. He is none of my concern." She says

"No, it's nothing like that. He won't leave me alone. He's borderline stalking me and he was in my house when I came home the other day. I just want you to talk to him and tell him to back off. I just know he'll listen to you before he'll listen to anyone else."

She chuckles a little, "As much as I hate to say it, that's true. He listens to me but to a certain extent. I'm not sure I can help you."

"Please, he tried to kill my baby."

"Oh gosh, this man will stop at nothing. I can try to talk to him but I can't guarantee anything will work. And for the record, I don't hate you anymore. Once I found out that you weren't the person he was cheating on me with, or the reason behind my divorce, I let that go. So stop thinking that." She says and I crack a little smile.

"I appreciate that."

"And just so you know, I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing it for Joe."

"I know you are."

"How is he? I heard he's signed with the enemy." She laughs

"Yes, he has and he's doing good."

"So back to Hunter, you said he tried to kill your baby, what happened?" She asks

"He punched me in my stomach."

"Really? Oh my god! Is everything okay?"

"Yes."

"I know Joe is freaking out."

"He was but I told him I wanted to call you and see if you could smoothed things over."

"I'll see what I can do." Oh my goodness, I'm so happy to hear her say that.

"Thanks Steph."

"Don't mention it." She says,then we end the call and I look over at Joe. We were pulling up to our building.

"She said she'll talk to him."

"Good!" He says, "Can you make it upstairs by yourself?" He asks putting the car in park.

"Yes, but where are you going?"

"I just gotta make a stop. I'll be right back." He smiles and he's on some bullshit. I know it.

"Let me go with you."

"Nah, I don't want you out. Just give me 20 minutes and I'll be right back. Go upstairs." He says and I know he's up to no good again but I can't do anything about it.

I kiss him on the cheek.

"That's all you're going to give me?" He says, then licks his lips.

I reach over and wrap my arms around him, giving him a hug and a kiss on the lips, then he grabs my butt.

"Don't try to distract me by grabbing my ass."

He smiles, "Get upstairs. I'll be back soon."

"Babe, be safe." I say

He scuffs, "I'm always safe. Except for when I got you pregnant." He laughs, which makes me laugh too.

"Hurry back and don't get arrested."

"I won't." He says and I close the door and go into the building.

Joe's POV

I watched as Kayla headed into the building and got into the elevator, then I drove off and headed straight for the performance center. Yes, I'm letting Kayla take care of this her way, but I'm also taking care of this my way too.

I pulled into a parking spot and turned the car off. I see his bitchass Phantom in the back of the parking lot, so I know he's here. I walk into the building and the receptionist stops me.

"How can I help you?" She asks

"You can't." I say without stopping, walking straight past her. Rude I know, but I'm on a mission.

"Are you here to see someone?" She asks but I ignore her and just keep walking.

I walk down a long hallway and walk to the second door on the left. I don't bother knocking, I just walk in.

He sees me walk in and doesn't show any emotion. It's like he knew was coming. He was on the phone but I don't give a shit.

"Get off the phone." I say

He rolls his eyes, "Let me call you back." He says to whoever is on the phone, then hangs up. He sits back in his chair, "What can I do for you?" He asks

Just then the receptionist walks in behind me, "I didn't know he was on the list. He just walked right past me. I've called security, Sir."

"Welp, doesn't matter, he's here now. You can go back to your desk." He says to her and she leaves, closing the door behind her.

"You put your hands on my wife? You know I'm about to kill you right?" I say and he just looks at me with a blank face.

"You know Joe—."

I quickly walk over to him and I try to take his head off of his body. I swing, hitting him in his face, knocking him out of his chair. I take a step back to let him get up but he was stunned, so I kneed him in the face, hopefully breaking his nose. He falls back on his back and I get down on one knee, and my leg on the other side of him, so he can't get up and I just start wailing on him. Punching him repeatedly in his face.

It took the 2 security guards and 4 of the wrestlers that ran in to get me off of him. I tried to kill that man. They were restraining me, holding me against the wall, while Paul was on the floor. He had blood all over. His face looked like it has been through a meat grinder. I fucked him up and that's exactly what he gets. I push everyone off of me and I leave the building. I need to hurry and get home to tell Kayla what I did because I know the police are coming.

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