Chapter 53
The next one and a half days we spent in my hometown. Jon went to work out twice at the little gym he had discovered over Christmas break thanks to one of my colleagues.
He was, all things considered, relaxed and in a good mood.
On Friday morning, after breakfast we packed our stuff to drive to Amsterdam for our two day stay there.
On the way I got a text from WWE headquarters, telling me and us, that Jon's mother had signed the papers, and that after this last money transfer this would end. If she opened her mouth once more to talk shit, she would pay for that.
"It's done." I said to Jon who was driving once again and he just nodded and grabbed my hand to squeeze it.
"Thank you Sam." I leaned over to kiss his cheek. We just had survived another drama as a couple and we worked out great together. Still standing strong. It was something that amazed me every day.
Amsterdam is a nice city with all the canals, the water, it's beautiful and so different from my hometown or Las Vegas or even Tahoe. I was glad we made the choice to stay here. To try something new. It was actually Jon's idea and I started to like it. Especially after our check in and after we closed the door to our room.
Without saying a word my husband grabbed me and lifted me up so I could wrap my legs around him, bracing myself on his shoulders. And he kissed me with such passion that I melted right there. It seemed like he needed the contact, needed to feel loved, needed to feel wanted after this thing with his mother was finally over.
But he couldn't talk about stuff like that most of the time, so I decided to remain quiet as well and give him my love instead. When he was ready he would talk.
In the evening we walked along one of the many canals, holding hands, not really talking much, enjoying the mild February night. Everything was beautifully illuminated it was pretty romantic in my eyes. Jon? I don't know, he was not really a romantic guy most of the time, but he surprised me every so often with something really thoughtful.
Tonight he stopped at one of the many piers.
"I hope you don't get seasick because we will have dinner on this lovely riverboat tonight."
I looked at the little boat and was speechless. "We have it just for us for the next two hours."
He climbed on board first and offered me his hand. We were greeted by a waiter.
"Hello, good evening. I am David and I will make sure you have a lovely evening on our emerald cruise."
"Hi, I am Jon, this is my wife Sam. Nice to meet you."
The waiter led us inside where one table was beautifully arranged with flowers and candles in the middle of the small room.
"I will leave you to yourself for a while. We will cast off any moment, that might be a bit bumpy, but after that the cruise will be smooth. I will be back in about 15 minutes with your entree. Enjoy the cruise."
I looked at Jon across the table and was grinning just happily not really able to say something.
"I take the grin as a good sign?" he asked carefully. "Yes. I am impressed. This is...wow. This is pretty romantic. How did you pull this off?"
"I can use a computer, you know? Not as efficient as you do, but I get where I want to be, and I arranged this. As a way to say thank you for everything Sam. And a way to apologize if I made you feel like I was not interested in you sexually these past weeks. I ensure you that I still am, we still have this great chemistry going. But I was so afraid to hurt you and that fear for you killed every romantic thought in my head. I am glad we worked that out. Because you are the most amazing, beautiful, sexiest woman in the world to me."
"Thanks Jon. I love you, too. This is so beautiful and you always surprise me with these little things and they mean a lot to me. It's not the grand gestures that make me feel loved, it's the little things."
"You are easy to please Sam and that is lovely about you. Your eyes light up equally no matter if I surprise you with pretzel from the German bakery or with a freaking weekend house at Tahoe. You are so down to earth, it wouldn't surprise me if you ask me one day to move in with Brie and Bryan to live in a green community. Which I wouldn't do by the way."
I laughed out loud and couldn't stop for a while. Jon just grinned and that made me serious again.
"I am glad you found your smile again. We will face every obstacle life throws at us. Together Jon."
I extended my hand, made a fist and looked at him. He grinned again and held his fist to mine.
"Believe that." I finished. "Oh I believe Mrs Good, I believe alright. And I believe I am hungry now. I ordered like everything and hopefully you will like it."
"As thoughtful as you are you will have made sure of that I guess."
"Good guess."
Dinner was again really, really good. I am still not sure how I fit that dessert at the end in, but I was stuffed after that.
"You can roll me out of here. I am stuffed and full and feel like a Thanksgiving turkey."
"Yeah, you should pull that belly in. You look fat."
"Really? What about you?" I put my hand on his belly and he was equally stuffed and it showed.
"Dean has to do some sit ups so he has a six pack for WM 31."
"I have a six pack alright woman."
I raised an eyebrow. No, at the moment he wasn't at the peak of his build. He had slacked training too much these past six weeks because he spent the days off at my side. But he would up his work out now that I was back on the road with him and I was sure that he would be in tip top shape for WM 31 in 6 weeks.
"You were a slacker these past few weeks. And you never gained that muscle mass you had before your injury. You should get a new workout together because I bet those fan girls are waiting for some new arm porn."
Jon looked down at himself. "Are you saying I am out of shape?" "I am saying you need to up your game. You got lazy, for all the good reasons, but you have to put some more work in. For the big picture."
He pulled me close. "What is that big picture again?" "Hmmm, it's golden, you wear it around your waist and it's the most prestigious thing in the industry." "Oh, yes. That's it. Our goal. But me in the gym means less time for us." "It's not like we are not used to that. I am back on the road with you, we will make the time."
"I guess we will." he mumbled and kissed me again.
The cruise ended way too soon and we had to escape our little bubble of happiness again.
A/N: I am glad so many of you still follow Jon and Sam's way to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
The next chapter will be a trip back to the roots for Jon.
And after that...drama doesn't cover what will happen after that! Any guesses?
Stay tuned!
