He swore as he fumbled around in the dark for Alanna's ringing cell phone as Alanna cuddled against him, her petite body molded to his. "Babe, I gotta get your phone." Roman muttered as Alanna muttered sleepily in response, "No. Let it ring."

He'd been about to, until he noticed the screen lit up, saw the caller id and grumbled. He turned on the light, slipped her arm and leg off him and quietly walked into the bathroom, shutting the door behind him as he smirked to himself and then said "So you decided to call again, huh? You know, I'm getting really, really fucking sick of you just popping up at random, Grant, yet staying far enough out of my reach that I can't strangle you like I'm dying to do."

"Trust me, Reigns.. We'll be face to face sooner than you hope for." Grant muttered as he stretched and shut the door on his car, looked at the hotel he'd found out thanks to an online dirtsheet that the WWE was staying in for the week. He pushed open the door to the lobby and after hanging up, he calmly asked the man at the frot desk for a double room.

Then he got his room key and walked down the hallway, slid the key card in the slot and flopped onto the bed as he laughed maniacally to himself in the dark. "Soon, Allana. Soon I'm gonna make sure you remember why you do not fuck me over, babe." Grant said as he lie back on the bed, making plans.. He'd start with a few small headgames, of course.. He wanted her so scared he could smell her fear a mile away.

Then he'd show up.. That'd give loverboy the chance to get his hands on him and Grant was dying to kick that man's ass all over the face of God's green earth, the nerve of him, taking something Grant considered his..

Then he'd get her alone and that's when the real fun would start.

2 floors above, Roman paced, biting his thumb in concern. What the hell had the little prick meant that they'd be face to face again soon enough? Surely he wasn't going to be stupid enough to come back, right?

Roman was getting a very, very bad feeling.

He jumped a little when he felt her soft skin brush against his bare back and turning around he looked at her and then said quietly, "You need to sit.. Do not get upset by what I'm about to tell you, babe."

"Roman, what's wrong?"

"I think Grant's got something up his sleeve, again, or he's going to try something. Do not panic and run. I can and I will handle this." Roman muttered as he pulled her into his lap and then added, "That's who was on the phone. I wasn't going to say anything, but what he said was really creepy. I mean I deal with Ambrose, a known psychopath and this even had my skin crawling when the guy said it."

Alanna bit her lip and then said quietly, "I knew it. He wasn't going to give up. I knew I should have.." as Roman stopped her, kissing her forehead as his hands rested on her cheeks and he shook his head no. "No, it wouldn't matter anyway, because since I met you, I've wanted to be with you.. Sort of.. I mean at first I thought we'd just end up as friends, that's kind of how it always goes where I'm concerned, but.. It's not, and I'm not giving you up. So if Grant thinks he's going to do something, he's going to have to go through me first. That being said, I think you should make sure you are not alone at any time for a while.. I'll give security the heads up in the morning.."

Alanna nodded and then kissed Roman as she said quietly, "I thought everything was finally going to be okay. Damn it, I'm so sick of him." and looked t Roman. If he walked away, because of this, she honestly couldn't say she'd blame him. But she got this feeling he just might surprise her.

"Everything is going to be okay. You just relax.. I got you." Roman said as he pulled her down beside him in bed and then said "Sleep. We'll deal with this shit in the AM."

Alanna lie there, awake in his arms.. Once again all the old fears were coming back and she found herself straining in the darkness to hear and see anything that might be hidden. She rolled over, burrowing just below the covers, and buried her head in Roman's chest as she tried to get some sleep. Apparently, her nightmare was far from over, and she was afraid that somehow, Grant was going to do something to hurt someone she cared about, just to make her pay for leaving him.

And she wasn't about to let that happen.

NOTES:

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