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Chapter Eight
"He pushed Andrew down." Kurt said as if he knew without a shadow of a doubt that Paul had been responsible for his youngest child's fall earlier in the day.
Angle was standing in the nursery watching his wife who was sitting in a glider feeding their child. Stephanie was feeding Andy breast milk via a bottle while having him positioned close to her bosom. This was the process of weaning Andrew. It had to be done gradually because he still very much enjoyed nursing.
"Paul wouldn't do that. Despite all the faults he has, he would never hurt a child." Steph replied looking way from her son and up at Angle who leaned back against the light blue wall of the nursery room. Kurt cocked his head to the side and gave his wife a look to show his uncertainty about her assumption about Levesque.
"I know I told you that I blamed him for my miscarriage but I told him that in anger. He never wanted me to miscarry and he certainly wouldn't ever hurt Aurora." She added.
"I don't know, Steph, our child maybe a different story. I really don't want him at the house anymore. Set up another place for him to see Aurora." Angle told his wife as he placed his hands in his pockets.
"The whole reason I invited him to the house in the first place was so that Aurora would be comfortable being around him while I'm there and she is in her own house. I guess I could work it out so that Paul could come and see Aurora and Mom and Dad's. I could take her over there and stay with her while he visits." Steph suggested while gently rubbing her baby's back just after he finished the last of the bottle.
"Well that could work. We've got our anniversary coming up. Your parents are going to have to kids. I know Vince will keep an eye on Andrew and I'm sure Aurora will feel comfortable having your mom there." Kurt said with a smile before slowly walking over to his wife.
"Yeah it will work out. I can't believe we've been married for almost a year now. It seems like just yesterday I divorced Paul and we married."
"The year went by fast. It's been great. I wish you were the mother of all my children. I hate that I have to still deal with Karen. You're everything she isn't." Angle whispered lovingly as he confessed his true feelings to his wife while leaning down close to her and the baby.
"Everything happened for a reason, honey. Kyra and Kody wouldn't be who they are if you didn't have them with Karen. I'm going to call her and see if she will agree to meet me for lunch on the weekend. We're going to be in Pennsylvania anyway for the pay-per-view. If we can all get on the same page, it's only going to be easier to get more time with your kids." Steph explained giving her husband a loving gaze.
Stephanie knew it was about time that she finally had a talk with Karen. Their relationship used to be very friendly until Paul called Karen and told her the lie that ended up turning into reality after Kurt and Karen's marriage was over. In Karen's mind though, Stephanie had betrayed her friendship by sleeping Kurt and getting pregnant with his baby. Steph didn't know how she was going to explain it all to Karen. Perhaps it would be best if she just let the past be the past and look toward rebuilding a new relationship with her, this time as the stepmother of Karen's children; whatever it was going to take for Karen to stop giving Kurt such a hard time about seeing his children. She could handle this herself. There was no need to involve Kurt in this lunch meeting since he already had enough on his plate with his upcoming pay-per-view match with Jeff Hardy.
"Steph, you don't have to trouble yourself with trying to reason with Karen. She's my problem to deal with. I don't want you adding anymore unneeded stress to your life. You already work so hard for the company while taking care of the kids." Kurt told her bringing his hand to her face to caress it.
"No I want to do this. I know how much Kody and Kyra mean to you. I see how much you miss them and I want to help because I'm the reason Karen won't let you see them." Stephanie whispered lowering her head so that her husband could no longer look into her eyes.
"It's not your fault, sweetheart. Karen's just being a bitch and using our marriage as a justification for her bullshit. Don't ever think that us being together did anything but enhance my life. Without you I would have been miserable. I love you." Kurt whispered lifting her chin up with his hand before he moved in and kissed her lips with his. Steph's hand met Angle's face while they kissed; his words reassuring her that their decision to be together was the right one.
"Hey, how are you doing? I haven't heard from you in a while. What's going on?" Shawn said, his voice coming out of Paul's cell phone the moment Levesque answered the phone call.
Paul was sitting alone in his dark living room with his cell phone pressed up against his ear. The plasma television, only a few feet away from him, was on but low in volume. Until the phone call from Michaels, he had been sitting there completely zoned out. He didn't even know what was on the television, nor did he care.
"My life is shit right now. I have nothing now. I lost Stephanie to that son of a bitch, Angle, and my daughter is following her mother. I can feel myself slowly losing my sanity because of this. Steph and Aurora are all I think about. I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't get them back." Paul told his best friend. He was finally speaking exactly what was on his mind to his friend regardless of what Shawn was going to reply to him with. At this moment, he just needed to tell someone.
"Stephanie has moved on with her life. Aurora will always be your daughter and she loves you, but you need to let Steph be happy in her new marriage. Stephanie and Kurt have been married for coming up on a year now and they even have a child together. You have to respect that, no matter how hard it is for you." Shawn told him. Levesque started to shake his head while Michaels listed the truths about Stephanie's new life that he wasn't ready to accept.
"Speaking of their baby, I did something today that if I was in my right mind, I would never even dream of doing…" Paul confessed to his DX buddy in a low voice. He was almost embarrassed to continue and tell his friend what he did.
"I pushed that baby off the sofa." Levesque finally admitted which in turn caused a long pause of silence from the other line.
"Why would you do something like that? You're not that kind of a person to take your anger and frustration out on a little innocent child. You're a father, you would never harm Aurora. That little baby never did anything to anyone." Shawn lectured obviously disapproving of Paul's actions.
"I don't know what made me do it. He was standing on the sofa right next to where I was sitting. I was looking at his face and I saw how much he resembled Angle. And then I remembered the feeling I felt the day Stephanie told me that her unborn child wasn't mine. That child who was now standing before me and even smiled at me as his father was making out with my Stephanie only a several feet away. Something inside of me just snapped. It was like an out of body experience. I shoved the baby. It didn't take a lot of force; he wasn't that steady on his feet to begin with. Seeing him cry on the floor was like I was seeing Kurt Angle cry in pain and I loved it. It wasn't until Stephanie came in upset to console the kid that I realized what I did." Paul explained remembering the event that had transpired earlier that day.
"I wanted to apologize to Steph right then but I couldn't bring myself to do it. She thought that the baby just lost its balance. I let her think that." He added.
"You need to pray and ask for God's forgiveness. Pray for him to give you clarity and help you through this hard time. He will help you see that life is going to go on for you even without Stephanie. There are more women out there and God will guide you to who is right for you." Shawn preached.
"You know what, Shawn. I really don't need a sermon right now. I don't need you to tell me that I should just let Stephanie go and move on to someone else. I had a great fucking life when I was with Steph. Am I just supposed to forget about that and cut my losses and let Kurt Angle swoop in and take everything that was mine? Fuck that! I refuse to roll over and die despite how much it would delight Vince and the rest of his cronies."
"Paul, you should hear yourself. You're sounding like a man who is completely out of touch with reality. You are a good man. If you just take a step back from the situation, you'll realize that you're just making yourself miserable dwelling on the past. You should be happy to have your health and a beautiful healthy daughter." Shawn pointed out to him. He was being brutally honest with his friend because he knew it was important that he told him this.
"There's no way that my life can ever be back to good if I'm not with Stephanie… I'll get her back…I know I will…"