Just when she thought he couldn't go any lower.
She was sure she hated him. Why wouldn't she? He didn't give her a single reason not to. He treated her like utter garbage so she walked away. He treated her even worse when she refused to come back. She felt free for the first time in a year after that. It should have been exhilarating. It was at first. At least she thought it was. She thought she had it all figured out until Summer Rae was standing in front of her and she felt like she was looking in some sort of sick and twisted mirror.
"I have new Lana now."
Rusev's words made Lana sick to her stomach. Seeing the two of them go at it, clawing at one another like animals? That was just as sickening. But she wondered if she had the right to be even sickened in the first place. After all, she was doing the same thing weeks prior. Up until now it was her and Dolph locking lips in front the world as a dejected Rusev helplessly watched. Now the shoe was on the other foot and it didn't feel very good.
But still those words ate away at her, deeper and deeper the more she replayed them in her mind. Even though she used Dolph to make Rusev jealous, he was never a replacement. In her heart, there was only one Bulgarian Brute. In her heart, she could never replace Rusev. She would never want to.
That was when she realized she didn't hate him. She never did. But now he had done the very thing she would've never done. He replaced her. And with such a cheap imitation, a rotten excuse for a woman or even a human being that it was simply insulting to her very character.
Rusev knew that. It's why his eyes stayed on Lana as he shoved his tongue down Summer's throat. It's why the wicked grin on his face grew bigger and bigger. He had all the power now. Dolph was gone, Summer was by his side, and he was cleared to compete.
Now it was Lana who was left to do nothing but helplessly watch. Defeated. Crushed.
