Chapter VIII (09.07.2017)

The flowers continued to fill her hotel rooms for the next two months and still no one said anything. Until one day, they were in Dallas, her hometown, and she found twelve tulips in her doorway. That was a big change. Usually, there's a lot more of them. She took the bouquet inside where her friends where having lunch. She sat down on the sofa and looked at the flowers in deep thoughts. Dean found her like that a few moments later.

"There's a note, Jon" She told him with a scared look, once he sat down next to her. The note was something new and she was terrified of reading it. Dean took the card out of the tie and gave it to her while taking the bouquet out of her hands. He knew she needed a moment alone to read it, so he took the gift to the kitchen to put them in a vase.

"Valerie, I've been an idiot for long enough"

Dean had told A.J and Roman what was happening in the living room and all of them were waiting anxiously for their friend. She entered her kitchen with a confused look and the note on her hand.

"What does it say?" A. J asked, drinking his water. When she showed it to them, they were just as confused as her. "What the hell does that mean?" He thought, while looking at the rest.

"Maybe he's finally admitting the truth" Roman wondered, hiding a smile.

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Stephanie McMahon's theme song sounded as Valerie was about to win the triple threat match against Alexa Bliss and Sasha Banks. The later had pinned Alexa rather quickly and the match between the two was lasting more than anyone expecting. Valerie didn't want to lose the tittle and she wasn't planning on it. However, plans changed because when the boss daughter entered the ring, she looked at her and Sasha used her opportunity and pinned her instead, winning the match and the tittle.

Sasha was celebrating the win when she saw the look that the other superstar was sending Stephanie. It didn't take her too much time to get out of the ring. She knew when problems that she didn't want to get involved into were about to happen. Just as she was leaving the ring, Valerie slapped the woman in front of her and she took the microphone out of their hands. When Stephanie tried to hit her back, she stopped her in midair and pushed her away.

"I'm getting really sick and tired of you and your family, Steph. First, you break my family; then, your husband breaks my ribs and I had to leave for months; then, you try to take away MY championship and you try to hurt my brothers; and now… now, you came here and make me lose my championship" She exclaimed making her boss flinch "If you want to fire me, fire me!" That got a big reaction from the audience; everyone was screaming no "But you know you can't because if you do, you're ratings will go down and no one wants that. Do we?" She wondered aloud "I'm tired of you getting in my way, so I'm ending this once and for all. You and me in a Hell in a Cell match. At SummerSlam" Stephanie tried to refuse but the girl was already going up the ramp. Before she disappeared backstage, she said one more thing "And Steph, you better be there… because if you're not there… I'm coming for you"