Jordan shot up out of bed the scream echoing through the room, hitting out at the man who held her tightly in his arms she swore she would kill him.
"Jordan honey, wake up" Kevin said holding her even tighter while pinning her arms against her sides.
"No don't hurt me," she whimpered.
"Baby come on wake up its Kevin," he said shaking her gently.
Jordan's eyes shot open and Kevin gazed into her panic filled eyes.
Jordan realized what she had done and collapsed sobbing against Kevin's chest. "Oh god"
"It's over Jordie, you're fine" he murmured against her hair soothingly.
"It was so real" she whimpered clinging to him for safety.
"Wanna talk about it?"
"Alex was here, he had Nicolas. He said he was going to kill him if I didn't come back to him"
"It was just a dream sweetie," Kevin said tenderly wiping the tears from her cheek.
"Where is Nicolas?"
"Paul took him to the toy store,"
Jordan looked at Kevin realizing he was freshly showered and dressed in a button down shirt and clean jeans. "I thought you were going to work out"
"I did, I've been done for about four hours now" Kevin said smiling.
"Oh my god, you let me sleep to late, I was supposed to meet with Vince, Linda and their lawyer" Jordan said jumping off the bed gasping in pain.
"Calm down, I called Linda and told her you were sleeping, she rescheduled for 7:00 tonight." Kevin said pulling her down on to the bed beside him.
"Oh, I guess I should take a shower then looking at the clock and noticing it was almost 6:00"
"Stephanie brought some clothes down for you and I have you're room key right here. Courtesy of the WWE"
Jordan sighed, "I hate being dependent on Vince and Linda"
"Would you stop, they are just doing what they always do, taking care of their family and you are a part of their family. They think of you as a daughter."
"I know it's just they've already done so much for me, I feel like all I do is take from them, when my mom died, I practically lived with them."
"Jordan, they don't see it that way so stop feeling that way, why don't you go get a shower"
"You trying to tell me I stink?" she asked with a grin.
"Yeah, now hop to it. I ordered room service it should be here any minute and I'm starving."
"Can't have that now can we"
"I tend to get very grumpy when I'm not fed" Kevin said kissing her cheek.
Jordan got up and walked into the bathroom taking the clothes Steph had loaned her. Deciding to ask Kevin about going to get some stuff from the house before they left for Houston she stepped into the shower.
Kevin waited until Jordan closed the bathroom door before reaching for the phone. Once he heard the shower start he dialed "Stephanie McMahon" he heard on the other end.
"Steph, its Kevin we may have a potential problem?"
"What is wrong? Is Jordie alright?" she asked concerned about her friend.
"She is now but a little while ago she had a nightmare, I mean it was really bad, she even punched me in the face thinking I was Alex. I'm worried about if she has another one and She's alone with Nicolas. It'll scare him to death Steph, what should we do?"
"Has she talked to you about what happened at all?"
Kevin glanced towards the door and sighed, "No, it's like she's in denial. I mean she knows it happened but she's not uttering a word about it that scares me. I mean she talks about what she needs to do, but not what happened."
"I'll move in to Jordan and Nicolas's room, in the meantime try to get her to talk to you about what happened."
"Alright, she's getting out of the shower. I'll talk to you later. "Kevin said as someone knocked on the door.
Kevin hung up and answered the door to find room service outside. "Good evening Mr. Nash"
"Hi, come on in"
Kevin watched the bathroom door as the room service set up, "Will you be needing anything else Mr. Nash?"
"No, that will be all thanks" Kevin said handing the young man a generous tip.
"Thank you, Sir, should you need anything else please don't hesitate to call down stairs, my name is Enrique"
"I'll be sure to do that Enrique, have a good evening" Kevin replied as Jordan opened the door to the bathroom and stepped out.
"Who was that?" she asked as he closed the door.
"Our dinner my lady" he said with an exaggerated English accent.
"Smells great"
"I hope I ordered you're favorites, it's been awhile since we've had dinner together"
"As long as it's edible you'll be fine, I'm starving"
Kevin smiled and pulled out the chair for her, "Then let's eat"
Kevin watched Jordan carefully trying to pick the best time to broach the subject of the previous evening's events. "Is something on you're mind Kevin, you're awfully quiet." Jordan said between bites.
"I wanted to talk to you about what happened the other night" Kevin said gently.
"Kev, I appreciate everything you are doing but that is a subject I would rather not talk about"
"Jordan, you have to talk about it or else it's going to eat you up"
"Kevin, I'm dealing with it just fine on my own, please just drop it" she whispered tears filling her eyes.
Kevin looked at her and gently took her hand, "Honey I can't do that" I need to know what we are dealing with here if the guys and I are going to protect you and Nicolas"
"We are dealing with a jealous, abusive man, who likes to be in control every second of every day"
"Jordan, why did he do this to you what happened"
"Fine Kevin if you must know the gory details, I'll tell you. I went to the match last night; I dropped Nicolas off at my friend Marina's and went to the match. When I got home Alex was drunk and started screaming at me, at first I denied going, but then he told me he had seen me on television so I admitted it. He slapped me for lying to him; I sent Nicolas to his room to get in bed so he wouldn't witness what I knew was about to happen. We argued for about thirty minutes and I told him I was taking Nicolas and leaving, he lost control and that is when he beat the hell out of me. Nicolas heard me scream and came running out. Nicolas told him to leave me alone and tried to protect me by jumping on Alex's back. Alex threw him off like he was a rag doll, I seen Nicolas hit the wall and I couldn't control myself I kicked my leg's out and knocked his feet from underneath him he fell backward and the gun went off the next thing I remember was waking up in the hospital and seeing you and Paul standing there."
"I don't understand why he was so angry about you going to a wrestling match especially when you're best friends family owns the company." Kevin said shaking his head.
"Because he knew I didn't come to see Stephanie, I had come to tell Paul about Nicolas and ask for his help in getting us away from Alex. Alex is very jealous of Paul and of you"
"Why of me?"
"I can't tell you that, you'd never understand" Jordan said looking away as the phone rang.
"Hello" Kevin said answering it.
"She'll be right down" Kevin said into the phone.
"Vince and Linda are ready for you"
"Kevin, please don't be angry with me, If I tell you why he's jealous it'll only cause more problems than you need right now. I care about you too much to do that to you"
"It's alright, you'll tell me when you're ready" Kevin said standing up and pulling her into his arms for a hug.
"You better get going" Kevin said releasing her just as she snuggled into his body.
"Will you come with me? I'd feel better having you there. Paul is going to be there and I don't think I can handle anymore of his dirty looks tonight"
"Sure" Kevin said smiling down at her.
The walked down the hall and stopped outside of Vince and Linda's suite.
"Are you alright?" Kevin asked quietly.
"Yes, the sooner I get this divorce over with the better I'll feel and the sooner I can get on with my life.
Jordan was just about to knock on the door when Paul walked up with Nicolas, "Hi mommy look what Paul bought me," Nicolas said beaming.
Jordan smiled down at her son and inspected the fire truck her son was holding.
"Wow that is a really great fire truck"
"It's really cool it makes noise and everything," Nicolas explained excitedly as Linda opened the door.
"Hi come on in, Jordan are you sure you want Nicolas here?" she asked looking down at the little boy.
"No I don't, he was with Paul and they just got back from shopping." Jordan explained looking at Paul.
"Why don't I call one of the girls to watch him while we have this meeting" Paul suggested.
"No mommy I want to stay with you" Nicolas whined grabbing on to his mother's leg.
"I know baby but it'll be just for a little bit while mommy talk's to the adult's," she said picking him up.
"Hey buddy," Shane said to Nicolas coming up to the door.
"Hi Uncle Shane, see what Paul got me"
"That is the best fire truck in the whole world, why don't we go play with it while you're mom talk's to my mom and dad"
"Ok" Nicolas said happy to be able to play with his new toy.
"Thank you Shane" Jordan said following him inside.
"Jordan this is Andrew MacLean, our family attorney" Vince said introducing them.
"Thank you for seeing me Mr. MacLean"
"No thanks needed, any friend of Vince's is a friend of mine" Andrew said shaking her hand.
"Why don't we get started" Vince said when everyone was seated.
"I just have one question before we start" Paul said glancing over to Jordan and Kevin who were sitting side by side on the loveseat.
"Go ahead Paul" Vince said not liking the look Paul was throwing Jordan's way.
"Why is Kevin here? He has nothing to do with this"
"He's here because I asked him to be" Jordan said her voice tinged with irritation.
"Fine, let's get this over with, we still need to have a discussion of our own"
"Mrs. Davis, I want to start of by telling you that I feel this is an open and shut case. We are going to be filing for divorce on the grounds of spousal abuse and irreconcilable differences. Has anyone besides the police taken photo's of the you're injuries?"
"No, I thought that was all we would need"
"In this case I would feel better if we had some of our own, upon starting my own investigation it came to my attention that Alex Davis is related to the Chief of Police here in Dallas, should evidence become unavailable for some mysterious reason I want to have our own photo's available. Do you have any objection's to having more photo's taken?"
"Of course not, but do you really think that the chief of police would tamper with evidence?"
"Let's just say that when it comes to family member's, he doesn't always go by the book"
"Jesus Jordan what kind of family did you marry into" Paul asked rudely.
"That will be enough Paul"
"Enough, she keeps my child's existence from me and then subjects him to a life of violence, what kind of mother are you?" He said angrily.
"Paul I suggest you shut you're mouth right now" Kevin said standing up.
"ENOUGH" Jordan said stepping between the two men.
"If you two can't control you're ego's then you can both leave"
"I'm not going anywhere, this involves my son and you can't make me leave.
"Actually Mr. Levesque she can, you're name is no where on Nicolas's birth certificate and you're only here because Mrs. Davis is allowing it." The lawyer said backing up his client.
"Paul please, just let's get through this then we can talk about everything else." Jordan pleaded.
Paul knew this was difficult for her, and he didn't want to add any more stress to what she had already, sitting down he nodded his agreement.
During the meeting Andrew asked Jordan various questions regarding her marriage and finally came to the previous night. "Jordan I know this is painful for you but I need to know exactly what happened last night, in your own words"
"Alright, everyone in this room already knows most of it but I'll tell it again. Last night I dropped Nicolas off at my friend Marina's house, I told Marina where I was going and why, she agreed that if Alex called she would tell him I had a late meeting. Alex is very jealous when it comes to the mention of either Paul or Kevin, Alex and I have been having problems for some time now and he started getting more and more physical, I've tried leaving him several different times, each time he would drag me back with promises and when the promises didn't work anymore he started using threats. I came to the show last night to tell Paul about Nicolas and ask for his help. I didn't know what to do anymore. Before the threat's always centered on me. Then a couple of nights ago, Nicolas had an accident in his pants, he's only three so to me it's not a big deal, Alex disagreed and was going to spank him with…with a belt, only he was going to use the buckle end of the belt, I walked in just as was getting ready to hit him with it and got between him and Nicolas before he could. Alex ended up hitting me instead I told Nicolas to run and hide which he did in my closet. I couldn't let my child grow up the same way I did, so I was coming to Paul for help. Only none of the security guards would let me through. I begged them to go get one of the wrestler or Stephanie and they refused. I had no choice but to leave with out seeing anyone. When Nicolas and I got back home Alex was drunk, he started screaming and yelling at me, calling me every foul name he could think of. I sent Nicolas to his room to get ready for bed. Alex told me he wanted my son to know exactly what a whore I was and went towards Nicolas's room. I told him to leave him alone. We argued for about 30 minutes and I told Alex I was getting my son and we were leaving. That's when Alex hit me and knocked me to the floor, he started kicking me, and screaming. Nicolas came out to see what was going on when I screamed for Alex to stop. Nicolas is a very brave little boy who is very protective over me, he has no fear, or at least he didn't until now of Alex. He came at Alex yelling at him to leave me alone, it was when Nicolas jumped on Alex and then tried to come to me that Alex hit him. He hit Nicolas so hard he flew into the wall 10 feet away. I watched my son crumple to the ground and thought for sure Alex had killed him. Hitting me was one thing but beating on a defenseless child is another, I kicked my feet out and swiped Alex's legs from underneath him he fell backwards and the gun he had been holding went off. The next thing I remember was waking up in the hospital." Jordan said tears streaming down her face.
"It's all right it's over now" Paul said moving to the other side of her and sitting down next to her.
"Jordan, I believe there is something you're leaving out, it's in the police report. Did Alex at any time make a threat against you or Nicolas's life?" Andrew asked quietly.
"Yes… He told me the only way I was ever going to leave him was in a body bag, and then when the police were taking him away I thought I heard him say he would kill Nicolas" Jordan whispered as both Kevin and Paul held her hands.
"According to Officer Daniel's he did make a threat against you're son, I hate to do this but you need to know exactly what it was."
"What was the threat?" Paul asked anger bubbling up inside of him.
"His exact words were, you're going to die for this bitch, but not before I kill that bastard kid of yours."
"OH GOD" Jordan sobbed collapsing into Kevin's arms.
"Jordan don't you worry Nicolas will have a personal security guard with him every second, and so will you. One will be posted outside you're room no matter where we are." Vince said pacing back and fourth.
"Andrew how soon do you think we can get into court?" Linda asked.
"I'm not sure, I have a very good friend who practices Family Law here in Dallas I'm going to ask him to take this case, I don't have a license to practice in Texas, but I can advise him. I'll call him now if you would like."
"Please do so, Kevin and Paul the two of you are off the Roster until after the first court date, after that we'll fly back and forth for court appearances. She is not to be left alone do I make myself clear"
"As if we need to be told," Paul said with a small smile at Vince.
"Jordan why don't we go into the bathroom and freshen up" Linda suggested worried by the frightened look on Jordan's face.
Jordan mechanically stood up not uttering a word; she had hoped the words she heard as they hauled Alex off had been just her imagination playing tricks on her.
Vince waited until his wife had closed the door before he approached the two men sitting on the couch, "What ever beef you two have with each other over Jordan, put it aside for her and Nicolas's sake. Jordan does not need the two of you at each other's throat. What she does need right now is support and if you can't giver her that than I suggest you two to tell me now." Vince said angrily. They were both acting like spoiled brats. He knew Kevin was just trying to protect Jordan against Paul's anger, but Paul was acting like a jealous fool.
"We'll put our differences aside for now," Paul said looking at Kevin.
"We'll handle them in private when the time is right" Kevin said looking back at his friend.
"Good, don't make me have to have this discussion again, Jordan is just like a daughter to me and I will do everything in my power to protect her just like I would for Stephanie, even if it means suspending the two of you so she doesn't have to deal with you. God help you if either one of you break her heart"
Kevin smiled, this was a different side of Vince McMahon one that they very rarely seen.