"Wh..? What do you mean you don't think you can do this?" Jack asked with hurt and anger ruling his voice.

"Well Jack okay, so today you and I are kissing but then tomorrow will come and I'll be happy that things are finally looking up and you will no doubt give me the cold shoulder again and I can't cope with that Jack." She explained with tears running down her cheek.

Jack took hold of her hand again and pulled her closer, "I love you Ron and for some reason, despite me being more than a little rough round the edges I know you love me. I ain't sayin' that it'll be easy because it's you and me, things are never plain sailin' but we will work on it, together. That is of course if you're willing to stick around..?"

"Of course I am. I want to be the one that looks after you and has to deal with your tantrums because you can't do everything yourself." She said smiling down at him sweetly. "But only if we actually go somewhere this time and we don't take one step forward and twenty back!" she told him.

"You n me against the world Ronnie Mitchell, from now on. I promise" He said pulling her in for a kiss.

"Really?" Ronnie said

"Really." He assured her

As she kissed him again her phone vibrated. She took a step back as she got her phone out and had a look.

BEWARE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

She read it back a couple of times in confusion wondering who on earth would be sending her a text like that.

"Everythin' alright?" Jack asked.

"Ermm, yeh. Just someone sending a text to the wrong number." She said as she placed her phone back into her pocket and put it to the back of her mind.

Ronnie spent the rest of the day with Jack until early evening where she went back to Dot and Jim's.

"Oh Ronnie, there is a letter for you on the side." Dot said pointing from the kitchen to the table which was placed in the hallway.

"Thanks." Ronnie said, surprised that someone would be sending a letter there.
She opened it up and again was the message, 'Watch your back."

As she saw Dot coming over she quickly scrunched it up.

"Anything interesting?" Dot asked

"No, just people selling me something." She replied.

"Looks very personal to be a letter selling you something." Dot stated confused.

"Businesses these days will do anything to reach out to you." She smiled as she went upstairs.

She lay on her bed wondering who would be sending her a letter and a text. She knew it must be close to home as it was someone who had her mobile number and knew that she was now living at Dot's. She began to think the worst – maybe someone was following her!

One thing she was sure of however was that she wasn't going to mention anything to Jack. She knew he needed peace and quiet for the moment and didn't need to be worrying about things like this. For once she wanted to be there for him and be his rock and she didn't want it to be the other way round.

That night when the Branning house was asleep a man came out of the shadows with a spanner in hand. He headed straight for Ronnie's motorbike which was stood outside the house. He bent down and fiddled with it using the spanner before walking away back into the shadows.