The anger boiling through my veins was unbearable. I had never been this angry at Wynonna. Not even when she left without a word to anyone. I knew that little girl was mine. There was no denying it. She resembled JoJo so much when she was that age.
I came to the only place I knew to come when my anger was a point that I wanted to knock everyone out around me. The arena. I stood next to the ring, just looking around at the empty seats that would soon be filled later with fans, my mind racing and my heart pounding in my chest. I couldn't put into words how I honestly felt, but I knew one thing, how could Wynonna ever speak of me in an ill manner when she had been lying and hiding a child from me?
I looked over as I felt a presence beside me, sighing as I found it to be Kelly. She didn't say anything, just stood there with her arms crossed. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
"It's calming isn't it?" Kelly spoke softly next to me, her eyes roaming around the empty arena. "Even though in 4 hours this place will be louder than any concert I've ever been to, it's always so calming before the gates open."
I nodded my head, leaning back against the barricade.
"Joe," Kelly let out a small sigh, leaning next to me. "You have every right to be angry."
"Oh I do?" I asked, finally making eye contact with her. "Why are you even here Kelly? I didn't say or do anything to your precious best friend. Even though I should've."
"That's where your wrong." Kelly turned facing me. "I believe you did enough for 2 lifetimes Reigns."
"Ya know, I think we both can agree I'm not the only bad guy here now." I crossed my own arms, looking toward the small women next to me.
"Your right." Kelly agreed, nodding her head. "Your 100% right. Wynonna made some bad choices, but she did them with the best of intentions Joseph."
"Oh please." I scoffed, pushing off the barricade and walking towards the ring.
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"What?"
"Don't give me that Kelly." I boomed, hopping up to sit on the side of the ring, looking toward her.
"Your forgetting I know her better than anyone Joe." Kelly replied.
I stared her down for a few minutes before nodding in agreement, looking down at my hands.
"Joe," Kelly walked up, standing next to me. "When we left this company 3 years ago you have to understand that Wynonna emotionally wasn't in a good place. She hid it well, but she did something that I for one never envisioned her doing." Kelly made eye contact with me. "She left you."
"Yea." I gulped looking away again as emotions flowed through me at a rapid speed.
"She was so screwed up after everything came out about you being married, and she thought by leaving and moving on with Kaiser it would make it all disappear." Kelly hopped up sitting next to me, letting out a loud sigh. "When she found out she was pregnant we had been gone from here about five months. Even though in her heart she knew the risks, she married Kaiser against all her instincts. When the baby was born we all knew it, and it broke her heart even more because not only was she married to a man who would bend over backwards to give her the world, but she now had a child that was the spitting image of the man her heart desired and craved most." I turned my eyes to Kelly's as she looked at me. "A man she couldn't have."
