Waking up on Sunday morning Stephanie found herself wrapped up in Paul's arms with her head resting on his chest and it brought a smile to her face as this was the exact position she had gone to sleep in.

Lifting her head from his chest to see him still appearing to be sound asleep she lifted her hand and brushed a stray lock of hair behind his ear, he looked so peaceful and so happy that it just made her smile. As his eyes shot open she jumped a mile pulling back away from him, "Jesus Christ, are you trying to kill me? How long have you been awake?"

Shrugging his shoulders he rolled onto his side so he could watch her better, "a while, I was just enjoying holding you in my arms. I know today is the last time for a few days that I can fully relax with you in my arms and was just making the most of it. I didn't mean to scare you."

Pressing her lips together in a tight line she playfully glared at him, "well I don't believe you, I think you need to make it up to me."

Smirking he wrapped his arms quickly around her waist and pulled her crashing against his chest as he rolled back onto his back, "I can do this."

Slapping her hand gently against his chest before she pushed herself away from him and sat up, "I didn't mean that."

Moving to sit up he rested his chin on her shoulder, "I know and I'm sorry." Turning around he stretched his one leg out behind her and stretched the other one over her lap gently before he wrapped his arms around her from the side, "I just wanted to have some fun, I wanted to be carefree in your company because I know for the next two days we're going to have to be on our guard and we won't be able to be carefree."

Closing her eyes she leant to the side so she could lean against his chest and rest her head on his shoulder, "I know and it isn't nice to think about which is why I don't want to think about that and I want to focus on this, on us, on today."

Pressing a soft kiss to the top of her head he rubbed her back gently, "your wish is my command."

Back in Connecticut and Vince was brooding over the lack of contact with Stephanie, "why has she not rung?"

Linda looked at her husband over the kitchen table where she was doing some work, "maybe because she's mad with you and doesn't want to speak to you Vince. She did say she wanted to be left alone."

"I don't care what she said in the text, I only care about talking to my daughter. I think I'm going to give her a call."

As he picked his cell phone up off of the table it was snatched from his hand before he could do anything with it, "what are you doing?"

Linda was stood with phone in hand glaring at her husband, "she told Marissa to tell everybody to leave her alone as she needed space, especially from you and she even called you Vince. If you want any hope of ever getting her to like you again then I suggest you do exactly as she wishes and leave her alone."

"She does like me now, she's just mad at me."

Linda frowned, "I would not be so sure of that right now. Just do us all a favour and leave her alone until she is ready to come back because I do not want you pushing her even further away."

Frowning he sat back down in his seat, "fine, it does not mean I have to like it though."

"I never said you did have to like it, you just have to do it. Do you promise to not call or text her if I give you your phone back?"

Reluctantly he nodded his head, "yes I promise."

Handing him back the phone Linda sat back down to finish her work, "good."

Placing the phone on the table beside him Vince clasped his hands placing them on the table before he leant on them, "so why are you sat at the kitchen table doing work on a Sunday? Why aren't you in your office?"

Lifting her head from where she had been staring at her laptop she smiled at him, "because I don't trust you not to harass Stephanie, well that's why I'm out here. The reason I'm doing work today is just because I am a little behind as I didn't do any work yesterday so I just want to catch up before work tomorrow."

"I'm sorry about this Linda, I really am."

Removing her glasses she placed them on the table, "I don't think I am the person you need to be telling this to am I? Vince I appreciate that you felt like you were doing the right thing for business but you've really hurt Steph and I don't know how long it will take for her to get over this."

For the first time Vince really was worried, "you mean you don't think it will be a simple case of her taking a couple of days off and then come tomorrow at Raw everything will be okay and she will have forgiven me?"

Putting her glasses back on Linda ignored the question and went back to her work, she didn't want to tell her husband that there was a high possibility that his daughter who he absolutely adored was incredibly pissed off with him and wouldn't forgive him any time soon.

The silence spoke volumes to Vince but he still wanted to hear the words come out of her mouth. Grabbing hold of her laptop carefully he pulled it across the table towards him to prevent her from working, "Linda, I asked you a question."

Sighing heavily she rubbed her face wearily, "okay fine, you want the truth? I don't think it will be a simple case of her forgiving you after spending a few days away from everything. She really loves or loved him and I don't think it will be easy for her to move past this because she could see everything she ever wanted in her life like marriage and kids being with him and now she doesn't have it she's understandably going to be hurting. You cannot push her on this or push her to forgive you or you will just push her further away. I know you love Stephanie and I'm sure deep down she knows that too but right now she's hurting too much to rationalise that you did what you thought was right for business, all she can see is how much you've hurt her in favour of pleasing the boys."

Studying his wife's face intently he wanted to see signs of deceit there but all he could see was the truth, "do you think she will even turn up to work tomorrow? Do you think she'll even work with Paul?"

"She may be mad at you and upset over the situation but she's not going to run away from her responsibilities so I am positive that she will be at Raw and I am sure that she will be able to work with Paul, it will be the only chance she gets to pretend like what she imagined is actually reality. If I were you I would cut her some slack this week with the shows, she won't be unprofessional because I know my daughter but she is likely to be cold with you."

Frowning Vince was slightly annoyed by what his wife was saying, "if your intention is to make me feel guilty then it's working."

Shrugging her shoulders Linda reached for her laptop pulling it closer to her again, "my intention is not to make you feel guilty, my intention is to make you realise exactly what mess you have caused and the lingering effect it will have on your relationship with your daughter."

Pushing his chair back scraping it across the kitchen floor Vince stood up, "yes I get it, I fucked up and I have to live with the consequences. I am going to work out."

Sighing as she watched her husband storm out of the room she shook her head and muttered, "I never said that."