“Is she?”
“She’s fine, brother,” Bullet said. “We aren’t in the business of hurting women, you know that. She’ll probably feel a little woozy, but other than that, she’ll be fine.”
He led me to a room with a cot in it, a tub full of ice and a bathroom. A small bar fridge sat on a counter as well as a box full of snack food.
“Get some rest,” he said. “You’ll need it.”
Bullet closed the door and the lock clicked in place. A prisoner until I could win my freedom. I knew somethinghad to be coming. It had been too easy. I knew when I took the vow that if I ever broke it, I’d be killed and yet here I was, having to fight for my freedom.
Just fucking great.
I’d always liked Bullet, he was a fun guy, and always handy with knowing a little bit about everything. He’d be tasked in keeping me here until the fight. I prayed it wasn’t him that I was fighting. I’d seen him in hand to hand combat, and I really didn’t fancy my chances.
The fight for freedom wasn’t just any regular fight.
It was the fight of your life.
Because at the end, one was left standing, and the other was dead.
I was going to have to kill my opponent tonight.
Or I was going to be killed.
The sound of cheering and general mayhem could be heard outside my door. I knew it was almost time. I’d heard grunting and yelling all morning as they set up the warehouse for their illegal cage fight and here I was, about to fight to the death for my freedom.
My freedom so I couldbe with Shae.
Fuck.
I prayed she didn’t know about this. I couldn’t bear to see what would happen if she saw what I was about to do, what I was capable of doing.
She’d never look at me the same way again.
This was for her.
The lock unclicked on the door as I was finishing taping up my hands. Bullet appeared in the doorway with Wolf close behind.
“They told you about it?” he asked me.
I nodded. “Who am I fighting?”
“Still don’t know that,” he told me. The look on Bullet’s face told me it wasn’t going to be good. I didn’t want to know. “You good?”
I nodded. “Yeah.”
“I’ll be ringside for you,” he said. “Need anything?”
I shook my head. “Wait.”
He stopped moving back outside and turned to face me. “Tell my family I’m okay. Tierney’s probably freaking the fuck out.”
“She’s all good. I already told them. They’ll be waiting for you when you beat this fucker, yeah?”
I nodded, pushing Shae and Tierney out of my mind so I could focus. As long as they were safe, I was going to befine.
Wolf turned and left me in the room with Bullet who sat down on a chair by the door, his phone in his hand.
“Who is it?” I asked him.
