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Torrie slipped back into the club slyly, her eyes darting around so as to be sure she wasn't conspicuous. The way she knew Dave, he had to be suspicious. But that wasn't always a bad thing, and she knew it would pay off in the long run.
As the blonde walked further into the place, her gaze drifted off to a corner in one side. Edge and Lita were standing together, so very closed and being all affectionate with one another. She narrowed her eyes as she watched them. She knew the redhead hated her, but the feeling was pretty close to being mutual. To think that Dave had opted to stay with Lita while they'd been seeing each other had really ticked her off - it still did. Batista had never planned on leaving the other woman for her, and the only reason they'd broken up was because Lita had ended it. Torrie supposed she should be happy, or at least satisfied or content about that, but she wasn't.
A sneaky smile touched the platinum blonde's lips as she kept watching the new lovebirds. If she got her way, things wouldn't be quite so rosy for Lita pretty soon.
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Lita laughed softly, throatily as Edge kissed her behind her ear. She loved the feel of that, not the mention the chills it sent her.
"So... Are you gonna tell me, or do I have to drag it out of you?"
"Hmm?" The redhead looked at her boyfriend curiously.
"Your conversation with Stacy," the tall blond man said. "I know that wasn't ordinary girl talk. I also know there was a reason I had to leave you two alone."
Lita bit her lip but then arched an eyebrow as she spoke.
"That's right," she said. "That's because it was private."
Adam began to suddenly feel the air between them growing tense, awkward.
"Yeah, I know... Nevermind - sorry I brought it up."
"No," she said, shaking her head in protest. "It's okay... Actually, you didn't have to leave Stacy and me alone because part of it concerned *you*."
"*Me*?"
Lita nodded.
"She was worried because Torrie was missing, and so was Sean." She hated mentioning her burly friend's name to Edge, but at the same time hated that she *did* feel that way.
The blond man tensed somewhat at the mention of the other man's name. He hoped Amy wouldn't notice, but by God, the mere mention of O'Haire was enough to set him off.
"Apparently, Dave seemed to think that wasn't a coincidence... He's a very extremely jealous type," the redhead explained.
Edge nodded as he listened. It seemed as though he and Batista now shared *that* in common, too. Or rather, at least where Sean O'Haire was concerned. He'd seen the guy around Lita, and how he seemed so into her. He didn't trust him as far as he could throw him. And it wouldn't have surprised the blond man one bit if O'Haire *was* doing something with Torrie...
... But who was he to think anything like that? 'Guilty' was the answer to that question. Although it seemed to be forgotten and past them since they'd officially hooked up, Edge couldn't help but still feel guilty about it.
Coming back to his senses, he remembered what she had said a mere moment earlier.
"Wait - so how does any of this concern *me*?"
"Well, your name was mentioned," the redhead said seriously. "That's according to what Stacy told me." She was unhappy about it as well, as she didn't want the blond man to suffer another beating at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. While a fight between Dave and Sean certainly wouldn't be pretty, at least O'Haire would be able to put up more of a fight due to his larger size.
"Baby, you don't have to worry about me," Edge told her, and he wrapped his arms around her waist. "I can take care of myself. I can hold my own."
"I know you can." Lita held fastly to him, a smile coming to her pretty face. In truth, she didn't really feel that smile. Inside, she thought, 'But you don't know Dave's temper or jealousy and what he can *really* do.' She didn't say a word of any of this aloud, nor about how her ex had once put a guy in the hospital.
She only hoped history would not be repeating itself.