Release the Hounds

Chapter One

"Shut up Emma" I playfully slapped her hand.

"Hey, I'm just speaking the truth. You're always to loud when you're not wearing your damn hearing aids" Emma smiled as she took a sip of her Sex on the Beach drink.

"Yeah, sometimes you're too honest and need to shut your gob" I chuckled before sipping on my straw of lemonade.

I wasn't much of a drinker, I would always get queasy after a few drinks.

"This one time during my match with Emma she told me that I had botched a move out loud, like cmon who does that! Don't you think I would be aware once I fuck up in the ring?" I said with an annoyed look on my face.

"Caitlyn, I like to be very honest, why are you so critical about it"

"So basically you like to embarrass people" Zack chimed in as he sipped on his can of Bud Light.

"Baby, you're so rude" Emma huffed as she flipped him off from across the booth.

It was just another typical Friday night. We had the day off and Emma, Zack and myself would always go out for drinks at the local bar to have a drink or two before I would fly out to the next city with Cody. We had been doing this for a year now. Emma and I first started off as tag team partners back in Australia until she was called up and then 6 months later I was called up and the rest was history.

"I gotta head back in a min, I have to catch a flight tomorrow." I said as I looked at Zack and Emma.

"We can give you a ride back to the hotel if you want?" Zack said as he smiled at me.

"It's all good Zack, I can just get an Uber on the way back" I said with a smile gleaming on my face.

"If you insist," Emma said

I grabbed out my phone and opened up the Uber app and requested to be picked up and walked outside. Tonight was typically a cold night as it was the beginning of winter. 20 minutes later, my phone buzzed, my Uber had arrived, got in and waited til I arrived back to my hotel.

It was a long 45-minute drive, so I texted Cody, he didn't reply which was a normal thing he would do so I placed my headphones in and looked out the windows, the buildings were bright and colourful of a night time.

"Alright ma'am, that's $60" the Uber driver said as he winked at me

My body shivered from the cringe of this middle-aged man winking at me. I paid him and walked into the hotel and checked my phone, still no reply from Cody.  I took the elevator to the third level, grabbed out my key card and walked down corridors.

"316, 317, 318," I thought in my head.

I heard moaning as I walked closer to my room, I thought Cody was watching porn again without me, explaining why he hadn't replied to my messages.

"Yes Cody, right there" I heard a mysterious person say.

My stomach sunk,  did I hear this right? Could I be hearing the porn?

I held my breath and slid my key card into the door, I could see the woman riding Cody and as soon as Cody saw me, he pushed her off grabbed the sheet to cover himself, I took one glimpse of the woman, it was Summer Rae.

"Baby it's not what it looks like" Cody begged me

"It's not what it looks like, what the fuck Cody. I come back to find out that you're fucking another woman and I catch you in the act. Out of all the women, you could've had slept with, you let Summer Rae ride that small dick of yours" I screamed from the top of my lungs and ran out the room crying.

How could he do this me? I threw the ring onto the floor and ran down into the lobby, mascara was running down my face. I regretted yelling as half of Cody's co-workers were on the same level as us.

"Are you okay sweetheart" A voiced pitched from the distance.

I looked up, it was Randy.

"I'll be fine." I sobbed as I wiped my tears off my face.

"I know you're not fine" Randy began to hug me.

"Cry it all out on me, tell me what's wrong." He said as he smiled slightly whilst looking down to me.

"I was on my way to the room to go see Cody and I opened the door and I found him having sex with Summer Rae" I cried as my mascara smudged on his shirt.

"He's a bloody coward, look at what he's missing out on. A beautiful young woman" Randy cheerfully said as his ran his hands through my strawberry blonde hair.

Randy and I were good friends, I met him 6 months ago at the NXT Training Facility, Dusty had invited him down to help us with training which was a bonus for me in all honesty.

"I need somewhere to stay for the night, can I stay with you? I whimper as I look up to Randy.

I look like a disaster, makeup smudged down my face.

"Yes Caitlyn, you can, follow me" Randy said as he grabbed my hand and walked me up to his room.

His room was spacious and neat, I kinda expected it from a perfectionist like himself. His suitcases were in the corner neatly stacked like the perfect Jenga stack you'd play with your family for game night.

"You can take the bed for the night, the couch looks comfy as it is" Randy looks at me'

"Are you sure?" I look at him with a confused face

"I'm hundred percent positive." he insisted as he gestures his hand to the bed.

"Okay," I say quietly.

I have never felt so vulnerable in my life, I felt like I was a little child back in Australia when I was in school, being bullied by older kids. God, why do I have to feel this way? I placed my phone onto the bed and went into the bathroom to wash my face from the monstrosity that beheld on my face from my smudged makeup. 

"I wish I never met Cody Rhodes" I muttered under my breath as I began to tear up again.

After finishing washing my face, I hopped into Randy's bed. He was asleep on the couch, surprisingly he's a deep sleeper. I placed a blanket over his ripped body, he had bruises on his chest from the Extreme Rules match I had watched last week then I walked to my bed and just laid there. I couldn't sleep, my emotions didn't feel at ease. I took out my hearing aids and placed them on the bedside table and attempted to try and get some sleep.

I woke up at 3 am in a cold and chilling sweat. I got up and grabbed a piece of paper and wrote a thank you note and stuck it on Randy's door, placed in my hearing aids and went back to Cody's room which was two levels down from Randy's. I slid my key card into the door, all I could see was a distraught Cody sitting on the bed.

"C-Caitlyn? You came back for me?" He said softly as he looked at me

"No, I just want my stuff" I said without making eye contact with me.

I walked around to grab my stuff until I was pushed up against the wall by Cody, one of his hands was on my waist and the other hand was balled up in a fist against the wall, he looked vulnerable. He began to passionately kiss me and I shoved him away.

"What the hell Cody?!" I screamed at him

I picked up my stuff again in one hand and ran out to the door and my other hand was grabbed and I turned around and kicked him in the balls and ran for my life. He fell to the floor in Caitlyn.

"Caitlyn, I love you. I'm sorry" he yelled out

Those were the last words I heard him say to me.