Chapter 53
"Mommy, I don't want to do this anymore. Can we go back to Nana's house yet?" Mandy whined as she stomped her feet and walked beside her mother. Jenna, Mandy and Randy had spent the entire morning, and the better part of the afternoon, looking at houses in the Atlanta area. Jenna had wanted to leave Mandy at her mother's house or even at Cody's, but Randy insisted that she came along while they looked.
"Do you see now why it might have been a better idea to let her spend the day with Cody?" she asked Randy as they followed the real estate agent into yet another four bedroom home on the 'richer' side of Atlanta.
"She's fine," he said quietly. He stopped walking and bent down to Mandy's eye level. "Mandy, we're going to look at this house with this nice lady and then I promise we'll go back to Nana's house, ok?" he said gently. Quite honestly, the five year old was beginning to grate on his nerves today. Normally he had an unlimited amount of patience with the little girl, but she seemed to have developed something of an obnoxious attitude as of late. Randy chalked it up to the fact that she had been spending so much time with Cody and her little sister McKenzie. McKenzie was a very spoiled child and seemed to have inherited Layla's temperament for whining. Every time Mandy would come home after spending more than a few hours with her little sister, she started in on the whining act.
"But, I just want to go home now, Randy. I don't want to look at any more houses today!" she said stubbornly as she stomped her little foot in protest.
Randy took a deep breath and then let it out. He had to keep his cool here; he knew that Jenna was watching this little interaction between him and her daughter right now. He had to prove to her that he was father material. "I know you're tired of doing this, but this is the last one, I promise. Then we're all done for the day."
Mandy stuck out her bottom lip; Randy held back a chuckle when he saw how much the little girl resembled her mother when she pouted. "Okay," she finally said and took Randy's hand.
Randy smirked at Jenna when he and Mandy walked by her, "Daddy's got it under control," he growled at her. Jenna rolled her pretty brown eyes and followed Randy and Amanda into the house. The real estate agent was already standing by the staircase, ready to rattle off interesting features about this house. Sue, the real estate agent, was also feeling frustrated and tired with these potential buyers. Every house that the woman seemed to like, the man turned down. He always wanted something bigger, and refused to look at anything within a three mile radius of one side of town. Sue wondered to herself why that section of town was so off limits.
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On the 'off limits' side of town, Cody sat down on the couch and closed his eyes for a minute. It had been a long, tiresome day already and it was only one in the afternoon. His flight touched down in Atlanta late yesterday afternoon and he immediately went to his dad's house to pick up McKenzie. The little girl had been beyond thrilled that daddy had come back for her. She still hasn't stopped asking where her mommy was; Cody had no idea how to gently break it to the little girl that her mother was a flake and wasn't coming back. So instead of dwelling on how Layla had fucked them both over, he turned all of his attention to McKenzie.
They had spent all morning playing together—coloring, cartoons, dolls and anything else McKenzie could think of to do; she had worn her dad out. After attempting to feed her something for lunch, he managed to get to lay down on the floor for naptime. This was the first ten minutes he had had to himself since he got home yesterday.
After his brief rest on the couch, Cody took out his cell phone to see if she had texted him back yet. He smiled when he saw the indicator on his phone saying he had a new message.
I'd love to see you again. But how do I do that when he's home? JK
'She wants to see me again,' Cody whispered happily to himself. It had been almost three weeks since his and Jenna's late night rendezvous. He was disappointed at first when he heard that Jenna and Mandy had flown up to Boston to join Randy on his tour bus for the east coast tour. He had hoped that while Randy was away, he and Jenna could repair their relationship. Cody was called back on the road a few days after Jenna left to be with Randy. They ran into each other exactly one time during that tour. It had been a late night hotel check in that accidentally brought them together.
Cody smiled when he remembered how cute she had looked in her pajamas when he saw her in the hallway by the vending machines. Pushing her into a corner where no one could see them, he gently placed a soft kiss on her lips and breathed in her perfume. "I miss you…" he whispered as he hurriedly kissed her again and gave her his new cell phone number. Ever since that night, they haven't seen each other, except for the brief drop off and pick up of Amanda, but they've exchanged many text messages between the two of them.
What are you doing today? When does he leave for the road again? CGR
He quickly sent her the message, hoping for a quick response. Randy must not have been near her because Cody received a reply message within a few seconds.
We're looking at houses right now with an agent. He has to fly out to Houston for a radio interview tomorrow morning. JK
A huge smile broke out onto Cody's face when he realized that he could be holding Jenna in his arms as soon as tomorrow morning.
Let me know when he leaves, we'll figure something out. CGR
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After Randy had tucked Amanda into bed, he shut her light off, turned on the night light and closed the door halfway. He leaned against the wall, closed his eyes for a second and then headed down the hallway to his bedroom where his beautiful fiancé was waiting. He hated this apartment; it was much too small, he couldn't wait until they finally found a house to buy.
Jenna was sitting up in bed, her long tanned legs crossed in front of her, playing with her phone. Randy watched her for a minute before stripping down to his boxers and crawling into bed with her. Very gently he reached over and took her phone away from her and set it on the nightstand on her side of the bed. "Hey," he growled as he leaned in for a kiss. One of her hands immediately went to his cheek and stroked it. "Hey," she whispered back as the kiss broke and she shifted so she was in a lying position. Randy smirked and took this as an invitation to crawl on top of her.
"Love you so much…." he mumbled into her ear as her fingernails ran up and down his bare back. "Can't wait to marry you…." He could feel her stiffen up a little when he mentioned the word 'marry'. Sighing, he pulled away from her and moved off of her. "What's wrong?" he asked. "It's like you freak out every time I mention getting married."
Jenna bit her bottom lip. "I'm sorry, it just feels like everything is moving so fast…." she said softly as she looked down at her hands. The huge diamond ring he had proposed to her with sparkled from the light of the bedside lamp.
"I told you that I would wait until you were ready, Jenna. The whole time we've been together, I've never tried to push you into something you weren't ready for. Hell, it was almost a year before you let me fuck you…."
She blushed. "You're so crude sometimes…." she trailed off as she lifted her glance from her hands and for herself staring directly into his steel blue eyes.
Randy chuckled, "That's one of the reasons why you love me, Jenna. I'm blunt and to the point. And speaking of things that are at a point," he glanced down at his boxers and then looked up at her. With a big smile on his face, he crawled back on top of her and proceeded to try and drive her insane with soft kisses and gentle nips on her neck and ear lobe, as his big hands started to wander down to her little pajama shorts. Randy Orton always got what he wanted.
