The Plan

Chapter 2: The Plan

The next morning, Dominik entered the hotel with breakfast. He wasn't surprised to see Rhea was finally awake, knowing she probably woke up as soon as he left the room.

"Morning Mami," He greeted as she sat in bed with a slight scowl. She had never been a morning person.

"Morning." Rhea grumbled.

Dominik placed the food down on the small coffee table in front of the sofa and made his way over to the bed, offering his outstretched hands to her.

"Come eat."

Rhea swatted his hand away with a groan before making herself comfortable in bed again. "I'm not hungry, lay with me."

"Rhea." He said in a warning tone. "Come on while it's still hot, if you have to heat it up later you're just gonna complain." Dominik continued as he plopped down on the couch. "We have a free day today, we can do whatever you want and lay around as much as you want after you eat."

Rhea shot him a look, but gave in nonetheless and begrudgingly threw the cover off her body. Dominik eyed her with his eyebrow raised as she dragged herself over to join him on the couch. This was different than her usual morning grumpiness, something was clearly bothering her.

The two ate in silence with Dominik sneaking glances at her every so often. Rhea looked up from her food catching his eyes fixed on her and let out a sigh.

"What Dom? You clearly want to ask something so go ahead."

"Are you...okay?"

The concern in his voice made her face soften as she contemplated how to answer him.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." Rhea assured as she picked at her food. "...just in my head." She muttered more to herself.

Rhea had a tendency to be her own worst enemy; stubborn and over critical of herself. Once something she deemed as a problem entered her mind, she couldn't shake it until she found a way to solve it, and her current problems had her about to pull her hair out.

She had been pondering solutions since she opened her eyes but nothing was good enough which left her in a foul mood.

"Is this still about Liv?"

Twisting her mouth to the side of her face, Rhea remained silent not wanting to admit it out loud.

"Mami all of this will be over and done with once you win your title back at Summerslam. It's right around the corner, don't stress yourself."

"That's not good enough!" She suddenly exclaimed, slamming her fist on the table. "Just winning the title back isn't good enough Dom she tried to ruin my life. I want—no, I need her to suffer."

Dominik was caught off guard by her outburst as he observed her. There was a wickedness in her eyes that he hadn't seen in awhile; the same glimmer of wickedness she possessed when she successfully coaxed him into handing over the kendo stick to her, it terrified him a little bit leaving him speechless.

Rhea's leg bounced up and down in a frenzy as a bitter chuckle left her throat.

"Liv took my title from me, she took months off of my career from me, she tried to take you from me. And all for what? Because she's still bitter about me breaking up our tag team? Because I was tired of her holding on to me like the fucking leech that she is?"

Running her fingers through her hair, she took a deep breath to try to calm herself down to no avail.

"I cared about Liv, I trusted Liv. I brought myself down to her level to help her shine and for fucking what!? For this? To still be dealing with her whining, pathetic bullshit years later!?"