Part 4
Later that night...
Abbie was too wound up to sleep. She just kept thinking about Steve and Debra, her visit and someone her family had made it clear that she shouldn't think about... Hunter. It just wasn't fair; she couldn't even remember the last time she'd, had some attractive guy show an interest in her and when one finally does... he turns out to be the guy who tried to ruin her brother's career. Why did she always have to have rotten luck with guys?
Unable to sleep, she left her room and headed downstairs to see what was going on, maybe take a walk. As she was about to step off of the elevator she bumped right into Hunter.
"Hi" he said politely.
"Hi" she replied, "I'm sorry I bumped into you." She was about to walk on when he grabbed her arm, the contact making her skin tingle.
Hunter looked thoughtful for a moment and then smiled, "It's okay. Actually I kind of wanted to talk to you."
"What about?" Abbie asked as a bunch of hotel patrons pushed past them.
Hunter moved them off to the side, out of everyone's way. "About earlier..."
"It's okay. I know you didn't realise who I was" she cut him off, "I won't hold you to anything."
"That's too bad" Hunter replied, "I was still gonna ask you to dinner."
Abbie just looked at him, the shock evident in her eyes. "Why?" she asked him in a quiet voice.
"It's the strangest thing. I haven't been able to get you out of my head all day and I don't think I want to" Hunter told her smiling.
"Same here" Abbie answered, "Even after I found out who you were."
"Really?"
"Yeah" she replied softly, her cheeks breaking out in a blush.
Hunter lifted her chin up with his hand and gently kissed her lips. "I know the feeling."
Abbie tried to stop thinking, to let herself feel the moment, but she couldn't. She broke the contact and said, "I like you, I do. However my brother hates you and I don't know how to deal with that."
Hunter stared straight into her eyes, "We'll find a way."
Across the lobby waiting outside the hotel's boutique, Kurt Angle got a bird's eye view of the potential lovers. One that he pointed out to his fiancee the second she emerged from her shopping spree.
"Steph, Hunter's got a girl" Kurt said to her as she passed her weighty shopping bags to him to carry.
"What's he paying *another* hooker?" Stephanie asked nastily.
She was pissed that her ex-husband never seemed to lack for female company, while it had taken a long time for Kurt to even ask her out. Not that she could blame him, she had one *failed* marriage behind her and a very public fling with Jericho that also ended badly... emotionally she had been a mess. She also knew exactly who to blame over it all... Hunter, not her father as some know-it-all's had suggested. Stephanie could trace everything, all the bitchiness and her emotional rollercoaster back to the time she had married Hunter, there were times when a small part of her wished that she could turn back the clock and marry Test instead.
"No" Kurt told her, "If I'm not mistaken; and with my Olympic gold medal winning vision, I rarely am. I think that's Austin's sister."
Stephanie looked in the direction Kurt was looking and smiled. "You're right my darling. Hunter is fooling around with the sister of the Rattlesnake."
Kurt looked at Stephanie and saw that evil glint in her eyes and knew what was coming next, she only got that way over one subject. "What are we gonna do about it?" he asked sighing.
"What any other responsible person would do." Kurt gave her a blank look and she filled him in, "We tell Austin what we saw."
Kurt nodded in understanding, "Great plan."
"As always" Stephanie answered as she dragged Kurt off to the bar for a celebratory drink.
TBC...
