"Damn, that fucking hurt."<br/><br/>Martin said to himself after he punched the door. He had left a hole in the door and bloodied up his knuckles. Stupid Diane, he hadn't meant to hit her. She was just overreacting and not listening to reason. A child had just been a suggestion. One that Martin agreed with Rich about. If they didn't someday have a kid, people would question their marriage and Martin couldn't have that happen. But it wasn't like anyone expected Diane to have a baby in her arms tomorrow. It would at least be a year from now.<br/><br/>Martin headed to the bathroom and cleaned up his knuckles. He had some cuts would need to wrap them. He called the lobby for some bandages and thought he'd have to find some high end jewelry store near by. Buy Diane some expensive diamond necklace as an apology gift. Although they'd definitely be having a talk when she came back to their room that it was unacceptable for to hit him.<br/><br/>----------------------<br/><br/>Shane had no idea how he was going to approach Diane, he just knew he needed to. While she and Martin had been sight-seeing, he had been trying to gather his courage about what to say. He had drank half a bottle of whiskey in the process. He needed to know how she felt, so he could move on.<br/><br/>When Rich exited the newlyweds' room, right before their fight, Shane had entered the hallway. He saw Rich and stormed over to him.<br/><br/>"You can take your money and shove it up your ass!"<br/><br/>Shane said, throwing a wad of cash in Rich's face. Rich had a pissed off look on his face.<br/><br/>"What the fuck you doing here? Shawn, isn't it?"<br/><br/>He vaguely remembered Shane. He had been Diane's loser mechanic boyfriend. Paris, and in this hotel, was definitely the last place Rich ever expected to see him. Shane didn't earn enough money from his job to buy a proper suit, let alone afford a stay in the Le Grand Hotel.<br/><br/>"It's Shane."<br/><br/>Shane replied with venom in his voice. Rich shrugged his shoulders, his name was that important to him.<br/><br/>"Whatever, what do you want,<span style="font-weight: bold">Shane</span>?"<br/><br/>"For you to take back your money, I don't want it. Diane's worth far more to me than that."<br/><br/>Rich looked down on the floor.<br/><br/>"You obviously spent some of it, to be here."<br/><br/>Shane tightened his jaw. He had but he hadn't liked it. He didn't want anything to do with Rich or money. Rich could see the younger man was going to be stubborn about that and added.<br/><br/>"You honestly think you can have her back? Martin Hayes can give her anything she could ever want in the world. Why would she settle for a grease monkey, when she could have a movie star?"<br/><br/>"I love her."<br/><br/>"Well, love doesn't pay Daddy's bills, does it?"<br/><br/>"What do you-"<br/><br/>Shane was confused he had no idea what Rich was talking about. In true Rich fashion, he just continued on as he unlocked the door to his hotel room.<br/><br/>"Besides, knowing good old Diane, she'll be pretty pissed to know you decided to take my money."<br/><br/>Diane would be upset. Rich had offered Shane a great deal of money to walk out of her life and he had stupidly agreed to it. It had been so much money and he had been hurt she had chose Martin over him. But then he realized, not long after the wedding, he didn't want the money. Money couldn't replace her. Rich left him with that thought and slammed the door in his face. He had date to get ready for.<br/><br/>--------------------------<br/><br/>It wasn't long after Rich slammed the door in Shane's face, that Diane and Martin had their fight. Shane turned towards their door and was shocked to see Diane running out. She had no idea where she was going to go but she wanted nothing to do with the Great Martin Hayes right now. The chamber maid had got to her first.<br/><br/>Diane saw the woman reaching for her face and pulled back. Instinctively covering her cheek with the palm of her hand. It was red with an ugly bruise starting form. It was also starting to swell up.<br/><br/>"I....I'm fine."<br/><br/>She didn't know a lot of French, but it wasn't hard to figure out what the woman was asking or assume anyway. Shane was shocked and walked over to them.<br/><br/>"Diane, what-"<br/><br/>"Shane?! What are you-"<br/><br/>Diane looked at her ex-boyfriend in shock. He cut her off, though, and gently pulled her hand away from her cheek. He was angry. He and Diane would fight sometimes in the past but he had never raised a hand to her. Any man who did that to a woman wasn't a real man in his book.<br/><br/>"<span style="font-weight: bold">He</span>did this."<br/><br/>It wasn't a question, Shane knew that Martin had done it.<br/><br/>"Shane, I-"<br/><br/>Paul had heard the commotion outside and was shocked when poked his head out of his room. The Martin he had known was never that violent. But the again, if Martin had ever tried to hit him, Paul would have hit him right back.  He stepped out of his room and told the chamber maid.<br/><br/>~"Please, get her some ice."~<br/><br/>Diane's face turned red that Paul saw what had happened to. All they needed was for Rich to get involved and scream how this would ruin everything. Thankfully, he wasn't going to get involved. He was too busy in the bathroom getting ready for his 'date' with the Italian woman to realize what was going on.