-= Getting Down To Business =-

The camera crew started filming again as I sat there on the couch of Ashley's living room after I had woken up with the replays of the early morning action still in my head. I shuffled some playing cards while I shook off the thought of my personal life for a moment and got down to the business at hand. I looked straight at the camera as I pulled the King of Diamonds off the top of the deck and laid it on the coffee table as I thought about last week.

You see sometimes in life you have to swallow your pride when a great opportunity arises. I did just that at Disclosure when I aligned myself with The Pantheon. This wasn't cause I have the same exact vision as them rather I saw it as more of a smart business move on my part. Don't get me wrong it is not like I am in it just for myself. I respect Pete Ebdon after all greatness does recognize greatness. The guy has been on top of the industry more times than you can count on both hands in just seven short years. Then you have Joshua Payne who is enjoying the top as we speak and who is a fucking bipolar bastard that terrorizes the whole roster. You also have Nicholas Jaxx who well holds gold and elevated that gold when he won it at the last pay per view. That was something Steve Jason couldn't never do with that title. So I have no problem listening to these guys. They are the best in the business ,so why not surround myself with them? I mean they all know what it takes and I will be more than happy to do what they say to rise to the top faster than any person in PDW has ever risen. So if they want me to prove myself as an Apostle of The Pantheon so be it. I just hope they know that it will not take very long for me to prove myself. I plan on standing shoulder to shoulder with them before the summer is up. I plan on holding gold before this month is up. Why? Simply for the fact I can't stand stagnation and remaining at the bottom. 

I guess it is my desire that makes me hate it so much. After all it was the desire to be the top of any business I've been in that has given me everything I have ever wanted. It has made me a winner in every aspect of life. Yet the desire is like a drug addiction that no amount of rehab can break. This addiction of desire has fucked with my relationships. Hell I haven't spoken to my mother since my father's death, because I was too busy building my company and too prideful to apologize. I have screwed over most of my friends just to get to the top of the world. Also desire has made me feel things that I know I should not need to feel anymore. I know that I shouldn't want to have anything with Ashley ,but I keep having this desire burn down deep in my heart that no amount of alcohol can extinguish. I should know I tried drinking her out of my mind for the past year. Desire will make me or break me. So I must nurture this desire so it can grow toward the top of the business. Right now though I must help the Pantheon wage their war against Steve Jason, Aurora Snow, and The Royal Cartel.

I pulled another card off the top of the deck as it was a Queen of Hearts as I shifted my thoughts toward this week.

So this week I face yet another member of the Royal Cartel. Is this going to be my role in the Apostles of Pantheon, facing one member of the Royal Cartel after another week after week? It certainly seems that way as this time I face a Russian woman with a thick accent or Veen of Varts as she calls herself. I swear are these people stuck in the alternate world where having nickname referring to a playing card is cool or insightful? Give me a damn break it is just damn right moronic. The only time the queen of hearts would strike fear in me was if I bet the house at Blackjack when the dealer had laid an ace. Then again if you look at their recent decisions then it doesn't really surprise anyone how moronic they truly are. You see Tatiana really you and your little group's stupidity really abounds me, I mean you allowed you and your house of cards peons to be pimped out by your fearless leader Dante to the Pantheon's little punching bag Steve Jason. This is the same Steve Jason that has been on his back more times the last couple weeks than Jaxx's girlfriends. The same Steve Jason trying to spark a revolution against the Pantheon with wet matches. Think about it Tatiana the guy had to pay all of you just to be on his side. That has to show you and your crew have aligned yourselves on the losing side of the "war" if he couldn't get anybody to join him without the offer of money. Then again Tatiana should have I expected you understand that? I mean after all the only thing Russian women are good for are being mail order brides. Ah yeah you can actually say those three words clearly can't you? Mail Order Bride. Hell maybe after The Pantheon destroys your little bridge club, you can crawl back to Russia and apply to be one so you can make a lonely American nerd living in his mother's basement a very miserable guy. See the destruction of your little group of buddies is really just a matter of time. I mean hell Steve Jason might as well paid Dante and your group some money to run and jump off a cliff. It would have had the same outcome as you and the Royal Cartel trying to take down the Pantheon. You would have ended up disappearing from the company either way just like Steve Jason soon will. See at Disclosure Tatiana, if you can find time away from worshipping your Dante poster like a damn little school girl with a crush for a minute and watch the show, you will see Payne and Ebdon destroy Dante and Jason respectively in their matches. Well that is if you can get your senses back after I have stomped them out of you earlier in the night. Although beating the sense out of you shouldn't take that long.

I let out a slight smirk as I couldn't contain my cockiness.

I mean look at you, Tatiana I can say it is a fair assumption that you are not the brains of the operation just going by your last couple promos. Actually you are far from it, you are more like the little fan girl with a crush willing to do anything just for Dante's attention. Basically you are nothing more than a little attention whore that needs to taken out and bitch slapped around a bit. You want so bad to impress Dante that you are willing to do foolish stuff like actually facing me in a match. You know you don't any shot at winning, but you do it anyway just for the tiniest miniscule chance that the world fucking starts rotating backwards and you defeat me. That isn't enough for you though as you now had to open your mouth and try desperately to insult me through your thick Russian accent. You see Nicholas Jaxx may think your accent is sexy ,but I see right through it. You use it to camouflage the complete stupidity that comes out of it. You think replacing your t's sound with v's is going to throw me off? Sorry to break it to you ,but I still know what you are saying. Look at your last promo, you tried to hide the stupidity but it was sticking out like a sore thumb. I mean you based your whole argument on the premise of what happened last week. You talk about how I was wrong how I was going to win last week. You say I have a bad judge of character then you turn right around and say that you are going to beat me and you call it self-confidence. Hmmmm isn't that the same fucking thing you fucking twat? Yet you have seemed to have it turned around cause I am the one with the actual self-confidence. See I based my statement last week on the fact that I was a former two time NCAA champion. What are you basing your statement on? Delusional hope? A heavenly miracle? Tiny magical fairies? You see Tatiana I am facing a former Hooters waitress not some accomplished wrestler. I am facing a woman that is living off the accomplishment of her sugar daddy. So it looks to me that you are the one with the actual terrible judgment.  I mean you think I care if I face a girl? You signed the contract. If you want to get tossed around the ring like a rag doll, then I have no problem with it. Hell this week you will see first hand that I have no problem beating a bitch around the ring. I mean after the week I've had, it will be very therapeutic for me.

Tatiana, you say that you want to be something yet you go and try to make me underestimate you by constantly putting down yourself ,but it won't work. I wasn't the top of my class at Stanford for nothing, I see right through you pathetic psychological games. I mean it will just backfire as after I defeat you handily at Disclosure people will start believing that you are truly a waste of time. See this week Tatiana will be yet another week you don't get that elusive victory in PDW.  It will be another week that you say at the bottom. It will be another week you can bitch about not winning. Though this time there will be no excuses for you. There will be no Drake or Cat to claim cost you the match. There will be only the fact that I am what I said I was and that is greatness. Really though Tatiana isn't it enough of the bullshit. I hope so. I mean really Tatiana, women like you should be seen and not heard. Though please don't take it as a back handed compliment as your looks aren't all that special either. You were a Hooters girl for crying out loud. Hell women like you are a dime dozen. You are the type of woman that I use to do coke lines on. In other words you are nothing more than insignificant piece of trash I have to step over on my way to the top. As Tuesday I will begin to prove myself to The Pantheon by taking down the Royal Cartel one card at a time. Soon your house of cards will fall. Yet Tatiana it isn't all bad news as at Disclosure this week Tatiana there is a little bit of good news as the beating you take won't be all that bad after all it will get Dante's attention as he will have to take you to the ER. Heh and to think some people still say that I'm a complete asshole.

I let out a slight chuckle as I turned the Queen of Hearts face down. I knew this week there was no way I was going to get upset as I stood up from the couch. I looked at Riley as he did the same. We then exited Ashley's house as I didn't know what quite to say to my daughter yet. I had to prepare myself for that meeting.

-=FADE TO BLACK=-