Heavy as the Crown (Bold and the Beautiful +Passions crossover)

Chapter 4

Disclaimer: See chapter 1.

Havana, Cuba

Steffy watched as the landscape passed by through the window of the taxi she caught from the airport. Thankfully the driver spoke enough english to make sense of her broken spanish. Though she has lived a majority of her life in LA, Steffy was better in french and italian. Blame it on her grandmother insisting the grandchildren all know how to in the event they would need to have control of any of the international companies or on her need to watch foreign movies in their native language.

She thankfully called in to book a room at one of the local hotels under the false name Stephania Ashford. Not the best name to hide under, but the best lies always have a bit of truth to it. Besides when asked she can asked to be called Steffy.

Feeling the car beginning to slow down Steffy to a moment to admire the beautiful building that she would be staying in for however long she wanted.

The Hotel Nacional de Cuba was breathtaking, besides the view, it was close to the waters and was a perfect distance to the night life.

As she exited the car Steffy was glad she changed into a pair of blue high waisted shorts paired with a white tank top, and a pair of wedge heels. She through her hair thrown into a ponytail before getting off the plane. (A/N: think Petra Solano of Jane the Virgin in case you want visuals.)

"Here you are senorita."

"Thank you." Steffy replied as she handed him an extra tip and went to grab her items, but before she could a bellhop came with a chart and gently tried to take them from her.

"No, no. it's okay I've got it, esta bien lo tengo."

The man seemed to be ignoring her protests and kept trying to take her bags. As she kept protesting from the corner of her eye Steffy saw a tall sandy blond guy with a pair of dark shades at the front of the hotel doors smirking in amusement.

Realizing he was probably laughing at her and her fight for her bags, Steffy decided it just wasn't worth the trouble. Besides, she just got here there will be plenty of time and opportunity for her to get into some real trouble.

With the fight lost Steffy followed the bellhop into the hotel, passing right by the man with her head held high.

She could have sworn she heard 'Mr. Shades' laughing.

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Fox has been in Havana for 2 days and spent the entire time either sleeping off his jet lag or at the pool flirting with any single, and sometimes not so single, woman.

After spending the past hour screening calls from his family Fox decided that it was time to explore a bit of the area and abandoned his phone on the bed, so not to be disturbed.

He made his way out of the penthouse he booked under Nicholai Lenox, aka Fox due to his new last name rather than his middle. He dressed in a pair of black chino pants with a forest green un-tucked button-down shirt with the first two buttons undone and dark tan boots, lastly a pair of dark aviators completed his look.

As he reached the front of the hotel Fox saw a women in shorts, that were doing her legs justice, in the middle of what appeared to be fight over her bags against the bellhop.

He stopped to watch the ridiculous scene smirking. The woman was clearly stubborn in her fight for a show of independence, even though she had at least 6 bags with her. Fox watched as she glanced up in his direction and he purposefully widened his smirk as if to say "lady give it up you look nuts".

The fight seems to leave her as if she got the message and finally let the bellhop do his job. As she made her way towards the door her head tilted up not even glancing in his direction.

He laughed 'Lady Ponytail', as he dubbed her in his head, was clearing telling him "hope you enjoyed the show, asshole".

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Italy

Thomas watched as the groom seemed to pace at the front of the altar glancing at his clock and back down the isle waiting for the bride to show.

Thomas felt relief that Steffy was not there because there is no way this latest hiccup in the drama filled romance named Lope by the tabloids, can be blamed on her.

He glanced to the side of the altar as the mother of the bride and his step mother, Brooke Logan, continued to get more worried the longer it took for Hope to come down the aisle and glare at her brother-in-law/father of the groom Bill.

Just as it seemed that the groom was going to call it quits, the bride rushed towards the aisle. Thomas didn't care to hear the vows just as long they were said.

Thomas clapped the loudest and hardest once they kissed.

His sister was free.

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Thank you for reading. As always all previous chapter have had minor adjustments to make the story flow correctly.