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“I’ll speak to Sky after this,” I sigh, pinching the bridge of my nose. “Anything else?”
“Nope, have fun, Brother,” Knox chuckles, standing to leave my office.
I wait a few minutes gathering my thoughts before I go in search of Sky. When I finally do I find her exactly where I expected. In her office, buried behind a million computer screens. Clearing my throat loudly to announce myself, I also knock on her door so she doesn’t get too startled.
“Can we talk, Sky?” I question from the doorway. The first thing I see is her bright blue hair above her computers, and then the rest of her face appears. Her eyes scrunch up as she looks at me then nods before ducking back down behind her computers.
“Sky,” I call out to get her attention once again. This isn’t something I’m going to talk to her about while she's working.
“Fine,” she huffs, the noise of her fingers working furiously against her keyboards quietens as she looks up at me. “What can I do for you?”
“You have been requested to work a security detail next Thursday night.” I keep my sentence vague hoping she isn’t going to ask questions and will just agree even though I know better.
“Where and why?” she questions, her voice guarded as she watches me for any sort of tell.
“In Coventry,” I manage to get out before she cuts me off.
“Fuck no,” Sky bolts her feet. “I am not working the Damned Ember concert. I know I got you all the gig with my friends, but I refuse to go there to work it. I can’t, no, I won’t be around them.” Her breathing becomes more labored with each sentence as she gets worked out. Her anger almost masks the fear in her eyes but not completely.
“Why?” I question watching her reactions. “You’ll have other team members with you.”
“Still not happening, Trevor. I have never asked you for much and always worked my ass off this company after you took me on and let me thrive here. Please don’t make me do this.” Her lips quiver as she begs me to reconsider.
With a sigh, I pull the letter for her out of my pocket. “Read this and then let me know your answer. I’ll be in the gym.” Without another word, I leave the envelope on the table by her door and leave. If Sky truly doesn’t want to go, I won’t force her, but clearly, her friends want her there for a reason. If this is going to start being a thing though, I will have to remember to ask her more about her history and just why she is avoiding the very band she brought into our business.
* * *
“I’ll do it,”Sky whispers, startling me as I finish another round with the punching bag. “I’ll go to the concert.” Her voice is soft, broken almost. Something in that letter got to her.
“Are you sure?” I turn to take her in. Her eyes are red giving away that she's been crying.
“Positive. They, the guys, yeah I’ll go.”
“Okay, I'll pass the message along. If you need to take the day, do it. We will be fine tonight if you want off.” Well, okay that's not entirely true, but I’ll tell the team to figure it out. Everyone needs to be in the right mindset to work this event, and if she isn’t, I won’t force her to do it.
“I’m fine to work tonight. You should know Boss,” Sky pauses. “Robert has been going on a rampage with Emma and Alexis missing. He’s turned the whole town apart looking for them without giving away what is truly going on. It hasn’t been good.”
“Noted. Thanks, Sky,” I nod. We knew he would lose his mind at them disappearing. We counted on it hoping he would make a mistake that we could use against him. “I’ll see you in a couple of hours at the fight.”
Leaving her behind in the gym, I head towards the shower to get cleaned up and ready. In just a few short hours my next fight will be taking place, and it’s one I plan on winning even if it’s to the death.
TWENTY-FOUR
TREVOR
The atmosphere in the locker room tonight was different than the others before it. The other fighters were quiet, each of us keeping to our respective areas, not even bothering to trash-talk one another or even talk in general. It was somber as we all made glances at the locker that had once belonged to Charles. The dude had seemed nice enough from the short conversations I had with him. He didn’t deserve to die in the ring, even if a true fighter didn’t mind death from doing what they love the most.
“Zander, Cameron, the two of you are up next,” April calls out from the doorway, not even bothering to look up from her clipboard before she turns away.
Both men stand and follow her from the room. The minute they do, Aiden finally starts on his shit. Of course, he couldn’t just keep his mouth shut and let us all wait in peace. Zander and Cameron were the first fighters of the night. Both had their fair share of losses and whoever won their fight would move into the winner bracket this week. As of tonight only Aiden and I had been undefeated and were the two who were truly competing to win Emma. The man had been ruthless in his fights and was the reason Charles was dead. I knew he would probably try the same shit tonight during our fight, but I wasn’t going to let him. My plan was to knock him out quickly and not let him get the upper hand in any way.
His downfall would be his cockiness. I knew his tells from Knox and Steel. The man led with his eyes. He always looked to where he was going to hit next. That was all the knowledge I needed to beat him.
“Yo, Trevor, think fast!” Aiden shouts right as he throws a dirty towel toward me.
Leaning out of the way I avoid getting hit with the thing and ignore him. I’m not going to react to him, preferring to leave it all in the ring. I can see his eyes tighten with anger and annoyance when I don’t give him what he wants.
“You think you're better than me?” he growls. “I’ve seen you talking to that piece of shit Knox. You hired the wrong company to be security for you here. Knox and his little buddy Steel are pieces of shit who don’t know how to mind their own business. I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on them again after they took my plaything away from me.”
