Chapter 78) Court Calls
I made my way into Ambrose's locker-room after my segment, and there sat Ashley as she was sitting in a chair and scrolling through her phone nonchalantly with boredom on her face. I approached her silently and made her jump when I tapped on her shoulder.
"Ashley."
"Hey babe!" She said, jumping up from the seat, ""You scared me!"
"I'm sorry that I frightened you. Did you see my segment with Paul?"
"You were amazing out there. I feel like you're winning back the championship if we're being honest."
I chuckled, "You think so?"
She nodded.
"Where did Ambrose go? Did his match already start?" I asked.
"Yeah." She replied. "He told me that he had six-man tag-match with Daniel and Dolph, and they're facing Wade Barrett, Stardust, and Luke Harper."
"We can sit in here and wait until they're done with the match. I'm gonna see if there's a way that Hunter and the others can't find you when we leave the arena. I don't want them seeing you just yet."
"I don't mind sitting in here for now." She said, looking into my eyes for a brief few seconds and she then broke the silence. "I want to know something."
Confused, I looked at her with concern in my face, "Anything, I'm all ears."
"What are we going to do with Seth? Deep down, I'm really scared about this situation."
"Nah, don't be scared of him, Ashley. His ass isn't coming anywhere close to you now that I'm here and he's locked-up in prison."
"You're right." She sighed. "I just want to know if that bastard is going to be in court soon."
"He will be." I looked into her eyes. "Everything he's done to you, past and present, there will be severe consequences."
Thirty Minutes Later
"Hey guys!" Ambrose said.
It turned out that Dolph entered the room with Ambrose and pulled Ashley into a tightening hug.
"Ashley! I'm so thankful that everything is better with you! I would've given you a hug earlier, but there was a lot of people and I had to prepare for my match earlier." He said.
"Dolph!" She said gasping for air, "You're crushing me!"
"I'm sorry."
"We have to sneak Ashley out and not have Hunter or the rest of the authority finding out that she's here." I said.
"Fine with us, we'll make sure that nobody will see her."
After the show, we all left the locker-room and quietly made our way out of the arena without anyone finding out about Ashley being here except for our friends. Ashley sat in the passenger's seat next to me and we drove off to the hotel. After we pulled-up to the hotel, I walked into the building with her and checked us into a room while Ambrose and Dolph checked into their own rooms.
After we made our way into the room, I needed to shower and then I could finally spend some time with Ashley again before we had to sleep for the night.
One hour later
I finally finished taking a shower and putting some new clothes on. I walked out to seeing Ashley watching an episode of Full House and she looked peaceful. Shortly after, I heard my phone beginning to ring after greeting Ashley with a kiss. It was from the same police department that took Seth to prison not too long ago.
"Hello?"
"Hello, this is the local police department. I just wanted to call and inform you that you and Miss Kay have a court session with Mr. Rollins tomorrow morning at nine in the morning. Thank you. Have a good night."
I allowed a small sigh to escape from my mouth and glanced over at Ashley. "Hey baby, we have to attend a court session with Seth in the morning."
"I thought that it was going to be a little more longer until I had to see him face-to-face again. I don't think I'm prepared." She said with nervousness in her voice.
Ashley
After we received the call from the police that Seth was having a court session tomorrow morning, I started to feel myself tremble. Even after awakening from my coma, I still remembered the time where he raped me without having remorse and the emotional scars that will forever be engraved in my brain. That's one memory that I wish I could forget.
"Ashley?" Roman said, pulling me out of my trance.
"I'm okay."
"Hey, hey." He said in a comforting voice. "Lay down in the bed and I'll be right back, alright?"
"Alright."
Roman vanished off from the living room and came back with a smile on his face.
"How about you treat yourself to a soothing bath? I prepared you one." He smiled. "I understand this whole court ordeal has you scared, but I'll be right with you the entire time."
"Roman, you didn't have to do this for me."
"But I did. I know what makes you calm down when things make you nervous. Treat yourself, babe."
"Okay, but are you going to join me?" I asked.
He chuckled, "Not this time. I'm doing something special for you and it's a surprise. You won't be disappointed."
I insisted on taking his advice and treating myself to this warm bath that he prepared for me. I stripped down all of my clothing and lied down in the tub and felt immediately relaxed.
Roman
While she was enjoying some time to herself, I decided on cooking her a nice and healthy dinner for the both of us. Tomorrow was going to be stressful with our court session with Seth, and I wanted to make this a very enjoyable night between Ashley and I.
Along with cooking us some dinner, I also made the bed comfortable and prepared some of our favorite Netflix series for the night. Thankfully, we didn't have to travel to any wrestling shows for awhile.
Ashley finally made her way back into the room at the perfect time. I finished the food and the bed was made.
"Did you do all of this?"
"Yeah. I enjoy making you feel loved everyday and I hope you like this meal that I cooked for us and along with that, our favorite Netflix series."
"You're incredible." She smiled. "I love you."
"I love you too." I said, pressing my lips to hers and lying her down onto the bed with the plate of dinner sitting in her lap.
"This looks delicious."
"Thank you."
The Next Day
It was seven in the morning and it was time to get dressed and attend our first court session together to hopefully have Seth locked away.
"Wake up, babe. Today's the day." I said.
"I don't think I'm emotionally prepared for this, Roman."
I nodded and looked into her eyes. "I understand that this is terrifying for you. But I know the outcome will be Seth being sent to prison and then you and I can continue to live our lives to the fullest before he tried stepping in the picture."
"Okay." Ashley huffed.
"I'm willing to go through this court session; unless you're right beside me through it all."
"I will be. I'm not going to have you do this all by yourself."
We both sat up from the bed and then we started our usual morning routine, but a little faster since our court session was going to begin at nine and we had roughly over an hour to get formally dressed, and for Ashley to bring the evidence which consisted of the text messages, medical records from her coma, and her ragged clothing.
After we finished our routine. I waited for her to finish getting prepared and then she suddenly sat there as if she was in a trance.
"Babe?"
"Oh, sorry." She apologized.
"What's on your mind besides Seth?" I asked, sitting next to her on the bed.
"I'm just worried that this will cost me wrestling in the ring again. I already have too much ring-rust after not being able to compete for over a year. I'm sure that Seth being locked-up in prison will cause the authority to fire me from the WWE; and this is the company that I've always wanted to compete in my entire life. It's also the same company that we met in on the night of my in-ring debut. I don't want to end up losing my job because of him."
"I completely understand, Ashley." I said, taking a small sigh. "I'm not going to allow them to fire you from something you've been passionate about ever since your childhood."
I looked at the time on my phone and realized that we had half an hour to arrive at the courthouse.
"Shit, we have to leave."
"Okay." She replied, slipping on her shoes and then we left the hotel and made our way to the courthouse.
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