Chapter 26

Nothing was going the way they had planned, nothing. Annabelle was pacing back and forth and she was muttering under her breath. She looked over and noticed that Jillian was watching her closely and although she was happy that she had won this diva away from her rival, she had lost the one thing she had wanted most, Jeff. Annabelle was sure that there had to be a way to break those two up, there had to be something that was a bone of contention, there had to be something that would get Jeff to divorce his new wife and walk away. Granted Annabelle knew that Jeff would never walk away from his kids and now that he knew that he had twin daughters he would always be a part of their lives, which meant Annabelle would always have to put up with McKenna when she finally got Jeff married to her.

"There has to be a way to get those two to break up. What if I hired a man to come up and at the right moment he pins McKenna against a wall and just kisses her hard and makes it look like they have been making out? Jeff would feel so betrayed that he wouldn't listen to anything she had to say and there would be no saving the marriage, this is perfect!" Annabelle said as she went off to find someone to do her bidding. There were plenty of people who would do what she wanted as long as they were on Mr. McMahon's good side and got away with anything they wanted, and possibly got a title shot in the process.

McKenna sighed as she walked back towards the dressing room. She had just finished her first match as Mrs. Jeff Hardy, which was not the way she had liked being introduced by Lillian but Jeff had apparently made it clear she was his wife and he wanted the world to know. So Lillian had introduced her as McKenna Hardy, Mrs. Jeff Hardy, which had only caused the first distraction. Then out of nowhere Ted Dibiase had walked down to her match and she was confused about how he had been staring at her. She was almost to the dressing room when someone grabbed her and pressed her against the wall.

"What the heck?" McKenna asked startled. She looked up as Ted stood there with a grin on his face.

"You know I always knew you had the hots for me." He said in a smug voice with a smug look on his face.

"Get your hands off of me." McKenna said warningly as she tried to push him away but he was way to strong. She didn't like this situation and she had a feeling that Annabelle had something to do with this. She wasn't sure what the game plan was but she knew it was something to break up her marriage. "Whatever she told you to do, I wouldn't do it if you don't want Team Extreme as an enemy. You know we can make your life a living…" She trailed off when she saw the gleam in his eyes and knew that he was told to do something that he was actually going to enjoy and that freaked her out.

"You are going to like this and who knows, once your divorce is final and Annabelle has Jeff, maybe you and I could get real serious, you look like you might be great in the sack." He said and then he saw Jeff start towards them and he planted his lips on hers and pressed her into the wall. He trapped her arms and made it impossible for him to be pushed away, but she kept turning her head and trying to get away.

"What the hell?" Jeff said as he stood there.

Ted pulled away with a look on his face but he wasn't expecting McKenna to lose it.

"You sick son of a bitch! You tell Annabelle this isn't going to work and if you ever put your hands on me again I will cut off your…" She trailed off letting it hang in the air before she landed a left hook on him and then kneed him where the sun don't shine.

When Jeff realized his wife had just been assaulted by Ted he lost it himself and went off on the guy. He was landing punches and then he picked up a steel chair and slammed it repeatedly into Ted's head before he was pulled off. He grabbed a very upset McKenna and took her into the dressing room and he could tell she was shaking. Despite how she had stood up for herself and the act she had portrayed she was very afraid because if Annabelle could get a man to pin her against the wall and violate her like that, she was scared that Annabelle was going to talk someone in to doing a lot more.

"We could leave the WWE." Jeff suggested softly. "TNA is out there and they are looking for more wrestlers, I have already worked there once, it's not a bad place to work and it is growing in franchise."

"Jeff we can't run from our problems. We should try and stick this out and if things can't be fixed and they get worse to the point where we are in to much danger, then we talk to TNA." McKenna said with a sigh.

"All right." Jeff nodded his head and he pulled her into his arms and held on tightly to her. "When I saw him all over you, my mind went blank and I thought I was going to lose it. I wasn't sure how to handle the situation baby, I will admit it. I mean we just got married and now I see you against the wall and a man is all over you."

"You didn't think I was willingly kissing another man after marrying you?" McKenna asked in a very low warning tone.

"No way! I just wasn't sure how to act that wouldn't offend you. I didn't want you to think I didn't care that another man was violating you but I also didn't want you thinking that I didn't think you could take care of yourself, because I know you like to take care of yourself, I just didn't know what to do that wouldn't cause us to fight because I don't want to fight with you all the time." Jeff said with a frustrated sigh.

"I don't want to fight with you either. So when a situation like that comes up, I want you to be my husband and I want you to protect me and I want you to defend me. When I am in the ring and in a match is when I want you to let me take care of myself but backstage or anywhere else, I think it would be kind of nice to see you in action." McKenna said with a smile knowing it was important to let Jeff take care of her and protect her every once in a while.

"Thank you baby." Jeff said smiling, he knew exactly what she was doing.

The big problem was, how far was Annabelle going to go now, to break them apart? Would she succeed in ruining the new found happiness the two of them had found or would they be able to overcome her and stay in the business and marriage that they love?