What about the front moving through NC? Could that front move this TS further east?
Probably not. If the storm was still weaker, the front might have had more of a chance to keep it east. Now that the storm has strengthened quite a bit over the past 12 hours it will be affected more by the incoming shortwave to the west. In the short-term, it might be a bit east, simply because a wobble here and a wobble there makes it pretty hard to forecast precisely. In the long term, it will still get grabbed by the system moving in from the west and pulled back inland.