ATM: Seth and the God Girls – The Last Capture
Sasha Banks is finally on the same page with Seth and the God Girls but is there enough time to save themselves and the DX family from Shane McMahon's last shot? Find out in the final story in the Seth and the God Girls series.
Chapter Eleven – Sundae or Sorbet?
The McMahon Estate, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Linda McMahon clinked the ice in her frosted orange coloured glass and enjoyed the sweet smell of the fresh mango juice that was coming from it. The weather was beautiful in Florida today and the matriarch of the McMahon family was chilling in one of many of the McMahon palatial estates. Stephanie was relaxed enough for one day and she needed her mother to put her business hat on so they could talk about ideas she had for the hotel business she had started with her husband Jeff Hardy.
"Mom come on I need you to focus will you please get out of this summer fog? I know its hot but I need you to help me out," Stephanie said and Linda McMahon let out a long sigh.
"With what?" Linda said coolly with her eyes closed behind her sunglasses and a beach hat on her head.
Stephanie rested her hand over her head before she shook it back and forth. "Are you serious Mom? Have you forgotten why I came here to see you already?" she said incredulous at her mother's indifference to her business plans with Jeff.
"You need my advice for your hotel business?" Linda repeated and Stephanie looked at her mother like she was crazy.
"Yes Mom, I need your advice on my hotel business," Stephanie replied as patiently as she could with a pasted on smile as Linda put her glass down and turned to face her daughter directly.
"You want me to talk business with you but you don't want to hear what I've got to say about your marriage and your family?" Linda said and Stephanie looked down at her hands with embarrassment.
"Mom, I told you there's nothing going on between me and Hunter. That kiss was just a momentary lack of judgment, I am still in love with Jeff okay?" Stephanie said but it was clear when her mother removed her sunglasses that Linda was not convinced by her response.
"After everything that man put this family through and you're still in love with him over a decade and three kids later. Stephanie Marie McMahon if I didn't love you so much I'd slap the taste right out of your stupid little face!" Linda snapped. "Kissing Hunter was like kicking your entire family in the balls. We have been through Hell with DX, I'm talking litigation, divorce, years and years of in-fighting and business conflicts. That man put your father in his grave and now you want to talk to me about some half-assed attempt at a hotel business with your so-called Hardy husband?!" Linda took another sip of her delicious fresh mango juice and smiled. "Man, if this mango juice wasn't so good I'd smash this glass right here on the floor, pulp and all!"
Stepahnie tried not to laugh at the idea of her mother smashing anything, "It's a sorbet Mom," she said quietly.
"What's a sorbet?" Linda said furrowing her brow.
"That's not mango juice, it's a mango sorbet. You put it in a glass like a drink but you were supposed to eat it like a sundae," Stephanie explained and Linda covered her face with embarrassment and eventually the mother and daughter burst out laughing.
"I wondered why it was so cold!" Linda laughed. "Anyway it's delicious, just like your husband,"
"Ew mom gross, come on please don't talk about Jeff like that to me," Stephanie said after getting her laughing fit under control.
"Just promise me Stephanie Marie, promise me you won't leave Jeff for that Degenerate Bonehead Triple H. Promise me right now or I'm outta here to go downtown to get some more of this sorbet," Linda said and Stephanie shook her head while still smiling at her mother's inadvertent sweetness which was now rubbing off on her.
"I promise you Mom, I will never leave Jeff for Hunter. Now can we please talk about business? That's the whole reason I'm here or I'd be home with Jeff right now," Stephanie said.
"Are you kids moving back to North Carolina?" Linda asked and Stephanie hesitated. Truth was she hadn't spoken to Jeff in almost a month, she'd been in New York City with Hunter, Seth and the God Girls.
"We could be, we've got a lot of stuff going on right now mom, you know with the government trying to imprison us and all," she replied. "Can we talk about our hotel business now mom please?"
"Did I tell you that Shane wants this house," Linda said and Stephanie's face hardened at the mention of her brother. "He thinks you're going to prison for life or something. I love your brother Stephanie but I swear sometimes I wonder if I was on something the day I gave birth to him. The kid's a freakin' moron,"
Shane McMahon was looking for Stephanie and Beth as well as DX, Seth and the God Girls with the US military. He had no idea that Stephanie was in Fort Lauderdale with Linda because he thought Linda was on his side. It was important that Shane never discover that Linda was hiding Stephanie in Fort Lauderdale but he would soon be coming to pay her a visit and talk about taking ownership of the estate.
"I'm not surprised," Stephanie replied, "you know I wanted Bayley to have this house but that was before she married the Rock and became an official God Girl. I'm sure she can afford her own palatial estate now, so you can give this place to whoever you want Mom," Stephanie said.
"So I can give it to you and Jeff?" Linda said and Stephanie smiled brightly at her mother's kind gesture.
"I do alright Mom, why don't you give this beautiful estate to somebody who really needs it?" Stephanie said and Linda thought about who that could be as they left to go downtown for more mango sorbet.
"Just remember to stay in the car when I go to get more of that mango juice," Linda said to Stephanie who giggled at her mother's mango mix up.
"Sorbet Mom, it's a sorbet," Stephanie said and she kissed her mother on the cheek as she pulled out of the driveway, leaving Stephanie to think about other things and those other things faded into thoughts about Hunter that wouldn't go away. But she wasn't about to tell her Mom and risk spoiling Linda's infectious good mood which was undoubtedly inspired by a fruit with a giant seed in the middle. She made a promise that she wouldn't leave Jeff for Hunter and she was going to keep it. After all the trouble Shane was causing to the McMahon family name, Stephanie wasn't about to be the next McMahon to burn their family legacy down to the ground. Hopefully together, Linda and Stephanie could be the ones to save it and save her marriage too.
BayRock beach house, Malibu, California
John Cena looked at the Rock with concern as the People's Champ handed him an ice cream sundae.
"She's pregnant?" Cena asked Rocky who nodded.
"Yeah, Bayley's pregnant," Rocky said. "Trish told me,"
"So, what are you gonna do, how are you going to contact her?" Cena asked the Rock who sighed between ice cream bites.
"I don't know I can't reach out to her otherwise the military will find out where she is. I need her to come home as soon as possible but the only way that can happen is if I get to Shane and convince him to drop the charges against DX and Seth and the God Girls," the Rock said and Cena looked at him like he was crazy.
"There's one way that might happen. Shane's after these DX jewels right?" Cena said and Rocky nodded. "I might have a way to get him off Seth and the God Girls' trail,"
"What do you mean?" Rocky asked Cena, intrigued as Cena got to his feet.
"Shane McMahon, I got two words for you - Austin Theory," Cena replied and Rocky furrowed his brow as Cena obviously knew something about Austin that Shane McMahon didn't and that made the Rock feel better about his baby and his bae Bayley being so far from home where all the love in the world was waiting for them. He missed Bayley terribly and he wanted her to come home where it was safe. He had no idea she was living on the streets of New York City as a fake homeless person but if things went according to Bianca Belair's plan, she wouldn't be living like that for much longer and neither would any of the God Girls and their leader Seth Rollins.