Forever Love (Fghter Club 1) (6 page)

‘
I’m going to see Alexia
tomorrow to get an explanation from her,’ he snapped and slammed
the door again.

Rachel opened the door
with force, ‘Well I’m coming with you then! And I’m not taking no
for an answer!’ She said as she slammed the door back shut
again.
‘Shit Shit Shit, What
the fuck am I going to do?’
she thought
to herself as she went to her room.

13

After spending most of the night
finding out where Alexia lived, James and Rachel sat outside her
house and waited for her to come back from dropping the children
off with Tracy. He was thinking about how he was going to deal with
this and what he was going to say. He was really trying to control
his anger which wasn’t easy.

As he watched her pull into her
drive he pulled his car forward to stop her getting her car
out.

She climbed out the car,
oblivious to her surroundings. She closed the door of her car and
locked it and then found her house key. As she turned around she
jumped out of her skin.

‘
Jesus Christ James, you
scared the hell out of me!’ she looked at him and then to Rachel
and as soon as she made eye contact with her, anger was evident on
her face.

James glared at her, ‘We need to
talk, don’t you think!’ It was a statement rather than and
question, so as she walked to her front door and unlocked it she
was preparing herself for and argument.

They walked into her kitchen and
she put the kettle on, ‘Cut to the chase James and tell me what you
want?’

‘
What I want? WHAT I WANT?
He shouted. Rachel flinched at him but Alexia just stood staring at
him seemingly not bothered by his shouting.

‘
Well done, that’s what I
said, you're a very clever man but you didn’t answer my question
and DON’T shout at me! Got it!’

James continued to stare down at
her but soon realised that she wasn’t intimidated by him and was
not going to back off so he stepped back. Rachel was
gobsmacked.

‘
Now I will ask you again,
what do you want?’

‘
You know exactly what I
want Alexia, don’t act dumb. I saw my children in the ring last
night and don’t say they’re not mine, I’m not stupid.’ Rachel came
up beside him and put one arm around him and the other hand on his
arm rubbing up and down and she kissed his face, ‘baby calm down,
we’ll get this sorted but being angry isn’t going to help.’ She
smirked at Alexia, ‘Did you hear we got married?’

‘
Rachel.....fuck off you
stupid blond bitch! I really don’t care that you got him. From what
I hear he’s not all that now anyway, he’s just a big bully so
you’re welcome to him and thank god MY children don’t know him
because I wouldn’t want them growing up in his world
anyway!’

James looked at her with anger,
‘You fucking what?’

‘
You heard, thank fuck
that my babies don’t know you because the way you’ve turned out, I
dread to think what you would have done with them, and if you think
I’m going to allow you to have access to them with you being a loan
shark and fighter you can do one!’ She was right up against him,
face to face and wasn’t scared of him at all. ‘You chose to not
have anything to do with them James, you’re the one who said you
didn’t want them because Rachel was your priority as she had lost a
baby, so don’t you dare blame me for this!’

Rachel’s heart started pounding
but she managed to keep a straight face on her knowing that she
wouldn’t have any proof after all this time.

‘
What the fuck are you
talking about? Why are you making all this shit up?’ he
asked.

‘
I didn’t make it up, I
emailed you when I had my 12 week scan and you emailed back after
not returning my calls.’

‘
I never emailed you and
you never called!’ he said with a look that threw her. Was it anger
or was it confusion? She didn’t know which.

‘
I did, I’ll prove it to
you, I’ll go get the emails and the text now.’ She ran up to her
office.

Rachel stepped back and
sat on a chair, hoping that Alexia was bluffing but when she came
back in with hard copies of the emails and texts that she had
printed off and she felt sick.
‘Fuck,’
she mumbled to herself.
James heard her and narrowed his eyes. He took them from Alexia and
he couldn’t believe what was in front of him.

He started reading it out
loud.

To:
[email protected]

From:
[email protected]

James,

I know we left things in a
pickle and I left leave suddenly but I have been trying to call
you. I don't know what's going on with you but I didn't think you'd
ignore me and make me feel like the bad guy when you were the one
who cheated…………

He heard Rachel gasp so he
turned to look at her pale face and then back at the paper to
continue reading it quietly in his head.

Anyway, the reason I have been
calling you is because I am 14 weeks pregnant with our babies! Yes
babies.....it's twins. Despite everything I don't want you to miss
out in them

Please call me!

I still love you loads,

Alexia.

---------------------–------------------------------------------------------------

To:
[email protected]

From:
[email protected]

Alexia,

After everything that happened
I have decided to be with Rachel, she has been with me since you
left and we have fallen in love. She has recently lost a baby so I
don't think it would be a good idea to be involved with the
twins.

I will however have £1000
transferred on the 1st of every month to you for them and I don't
wish to hear from you again, I have changed all my details and will
be moving in with Rachel soon so will not have this email address
anymore.

Good luck,

James.

When he’d finished with the
emails he went on to read the text messages that she had printed
out. He was shocked that Alexia had in fact texted and phoned him.
He placed the paperwork back on the worktop and turned to face
Rachel who was so pale by now, she could have been dead. To say
there was anger evident on his face was an understatement, he
looked like he wanted to murder her.

‘
Alexia can you give us a
moment please?’ he said through gritted teeth and kept his glare on
Rachel. Alexia slowly walked out of her kitchen but before she
closed the door she turned round and looked at James, he broke his
glare from Rachel and looked back at Alexia. ‘Any trouble and I’ll
be back in here and kicking both your arses,’ James smiled to
himself knowing full well she would.

Looking back at Rachel he could
feel the anger build up in him. ‘You did that didn’t you?’

‘
Yes,’ she whispered
looking at the floor.

‘
I didn’t hear
you!’

‘
YES,’ she
shouted.

‘
Why?’

‘
Because she hurt you, I
was protecting you! Plus I had finally got you, I have been in love
with you since we were 14 and you never gave me a second glance
until she left. When she emailed that I couldn’t bare to lose you,’
she cried.

‘
You took my children away
from me! Not only that, you made up that crap about losing a baby,
unless you were shagging someone else and were really
pregnant?’

She shook her head, ‘No, I just
wanted her to never come back and I never meant to take them away,
I wasn't thinking, I just wanted you James,’ she sobbed.

‘
Rachel look at
me.’

She slowly looked up until she
met his gaze, ‘Rachel I never loved you. You were always a
convenient fuck, and that was disappointing why do you think I
haven’t bothered in years? I was only with you because I lost it
when she left and I felt sorry for you.’

He walked to the back door and
looked out at the garden. ‘I want you gone, go home and pack your
bags and get the fuck out of my house.’

She gasped and walked over to
him, she put her hands on him. ‘No baby please don’t do this,
please don’t kick me out, I’m sorry, I’ll do anything but please
don’t do this, I love you.’

He pushed her away, grabbed her
arm and dragged her out to the car. He put her in the passenger
seat, got in and drove off.

When they got home he dragged
her out of the car, through the house and up to her bedroom and he
pushed her on the bed. He grabbed a bag and started to throw all
her things in it.

‘
James stop, you can’t do
this to me.’

‘
Watch me!’

‘
I’m your
wife!’

‘
Not for much
longer!’

‘
I will take you for
everything!’

‘
I’d like to see you try,
you see you’re not the only one who can play games Rachel, I
managed to get you to sign a pre-nup one night when you thought you
were signing some papers for the loans. You can’t get anything, the
only thing you can get is the £857 that was in your bank when we
married, now get the fuck out!’

James threw her bag out and
shouted Sam and Matt to come and get her and take her away.

‘
YOU CAN’T DO THIS JAMES!’
she shouted as the guys carried her out, ‘I WILL GET YOU FOR
THIS!

14

The next morning Alexia was
putting the laundry out on the washing line when she heard and car
pull up on her drive, she walked round to the front and watched
James get out of his car and walk up to her.

‘
You look awful,’ she
said.

‘
Thanks, I didn’t sleep
last night.’

‘
Ummmm it was a strange
night.’

‘
Where are they
kids?’

‘
They stayed at Tracy’s
for the night. Do you want to come in?’

He looked at her for a moment,
‘yeah please, I think we need to talk.’ She nodded at him and
walked inside. James followed her and sat down at the table whilst
she made them a drink. ‘Alexia I want to meet them,’ he said to
her.

‘
I’d worry if you didn’t
after yesterday’s performance. When do you want to meet
them?’

‘
Today?’ he said hoping
she’d agree.

‘
Well you know what...I
have an idea,’ she said looking at him, ‘but hear me out before you
throw a wobbler.’ He was amused that after all this time she still
knew him so well. ‘Two weeks today is the twins’ birthday and we
are taking them to a Manchester United game and having a few
friends there for a party. Every birthday when they blow out the
candles....’ she started to cry, ‘they wish for their Dad to come
home to them,’ she took a breath and he looked at her with a pained
look and tears even threaten to leak from him, he took a deep
breath and got himself under control. After a moment Alexia had
gathered herself together and continued talking, ‘how about you
come to the game and as they make their wish, you walk in and
surprise them?’James sat and thought about it for a moment, ‘OK, I
can agree to that,’ he said with a smile on his face. ‘Wow, this is
going to be the longest two weeks of my life, I don’t think it’s
sunk in yet that I’m a father.’

Whilst drinking their drinks and
looking at photos Alexia stood and really looked at James. ‘James
how did you end up with this lifestyle? The fighting and becoming a
loan shark, because I've got to be honest I'm not loving the idea
of you been near the kids whilst you’re beating the hell out of
people.’

‘
That’s a fair comment,
but you know me better than anyone Alexia. I'd never put those kids
in danger or hurt them but to answer your question, anger is how I
ended up with this lifestyle.’ Alexia looked at him confused and he
moved to sit next to her and held her hand. ‘I was so angry,
disgusted and ashamed of myself when you left me. I became angry
and I mean really angry, then to top it off you wouldn't speak to
me. I was always in trouble at university for fighting and one day
one of the teachers said they were going to call my parents in and
discuss my behaviour with them. Knowing that my parents worked from
home the head teacher tried ringing whilst I was with them but
there was no answer. I knew then that something was wrong as they
always made a point of telling me when they were going out as you
know. Anyway because there was no answer I went home and the nearer
the stronger my gut feeling got something was wrong and I was
right. I ran in through the front door and my aunt and uncle had
been shot dead and were lying on the floor.’ Alexia gasped in
horror and put her hand over her mouth and squeezed James’ hand
with the other. ‘I then heard a noise coming from my dad’s office
so I walked in thinking it was mum or dad phoning for help and
found three men throwing things about. As soon as they spotted me
they grabbed me and tied me to a chair and started asking me where
the money was, of course I had no idea what they were talking about
so they knocked me about a bit and left. Long story short that’s
when I found out that mum and dad had gotten a loan from a loan
shark and couldn't afford to pay it back. The guys who had gone
round assumed that my aunt and uncle were my mum and dad. After
that my anger just spiralled out of control, so my dad sent me to
see one of his friends who ran an underground fight club so he
could help me get my frustrations out in a more acceptable way and
that's where it all started. I became very popular quite quickly
because all my focus was on my fighting. I was winning every fight.
I was making big money....I mean thousands some nights but I soon
got a bad ass reputation and men wanted to take me on all the time.
It went to my head and I loved the fact that I was powerful. God, I
thought I was indestructible. All I had to do was look at someone
and they would run. I was young and thought I was clever after all.
One night I went out and a group of six guys started fighting me. I
was doing well on my own until one of them smacked me over the head
with a stool and that's when Sam and Matt came back into my life.
Man you should see them, Sam is the violent but silent type, if you
get in his face he'll just stand there and take it and then all of
a sudden just knock you out. Matt is still the same loud, in your
face, loves himself but hard as fucking nails. You look at him
wrong and he’ll punch your nose to the back of your head. Anyway
when I had managed to save a lot of money I wanted to help people
who had been a similar situation as mum and dad so I set up my own
loan company but didn't have the high interest that others do and I
also had a repayment plan where they paid me what they could afford
each month, so if they could only pay twenty pound one month then
one hundred pound the next then fair enough. But people started
taking advantage and treating me like an idiot. I did my books one
month and saw that I had lent out nearly eight hundred thousand
pounds and only fifteen percent of my customers were paying me
back. I got Matt and Sam to come with me and visit people, I just
wanted to shake them up a bit and start getting my money back but
because of my bad ass reputation people started to fear me or fight
me. So that’s how I ended up how I am today. I'm not proud of it
Alexia but when you try to do something to help and they take the
piss, you get very annoyed. To this day I have people owing
hundreds of thousands of pounds to me.’ Alexia sat there with her
mouth open shocked. ‘Well then, I need to pay my dads debt off to
you then don't I.’