I want to know all of her secrets.
Is he a past lover? A current one?
Fuck!
“You’re up against Mad Dog tonight?” AJ asks, and it takes me a fucking moment to realise he’s talking to me again.
“Yeah,” I snap, about ready for him to fuck right off.
“Shiv give you the heads up about him?” AJ asks, and I nod, fucking confused how he knows. “If you hear the word‘Hawaii’called out, then be prepared. It’ll mean Mad Dog is about to play real fucking dirty.”
“Why are you telling me this?” I snap, my eyes dancing between him and Lily.
“Can’t I just be a good Samaritan?”
Lily scoffs. “We don’t need your help.”
“We’ll see,” he mutters before turning and walking away, swallowed by the crowd.
What the fuck just happened?
Glancing at Lily, I take in her flaming red cheeks and her lethal glare as she stares at the crowd where AJ disappeared.
“What are the chances you’re going to tell me what the fuck just happened?”
Her blue eyes dart to me. “Fight first.”
“And the rest?” I ask, and her shoulders drop.
“And the rest… Let’s just get through tonight and tomorrow.”
My heart sinks.
I don’t think she has any intention of revealing what AJ was talking about. And isn’t that just fucking great.
Toy boy. Maybe that’s all I am to her.
I excuse myself to take a piss, leaving Lily briefly. I take a minute to get my head fucking straight. I need to focus, and everything that just happened is fucking distracting me.
When I return to Lily, she doesn’t say much, just turns her focus onto taping my hands, and I’m surprised she even knows how.
Just another mystery about Lily Bennett, I guess.
There seems to be extra tension in the air tonight. I watch the crowd as Lily wraps my hands, noting the gangs huddled together and glares being shot in all directions.
It’s not until I’m weaving through the crowd to get to the cage with Lily at my back that I notice the bane of my existence.
Monty. My mum’s side piece.
His glare is on me from across the other side of the cage as he speaks to Mad Dog, which is when I realise Mad Dog is one ofhisguys.
By the death glare Monty is shooting me, I wonder if he somehow knows I was the one who killed Carlo. I didn’t mean to. I’d wanted Carlo to pass my message onto Monty, and finding out he’d died on the footpath had been disappointing.
“This is going to be a problem.” Lily’s voice meets my ears, and I glance beside me to see her glaring at Monty. “You’re breaching the restraining order by being this close to him.”
I shrug. “I’m here to fight. If he has a problem with it, then he can fuck off. Besides, these fights aren’t legal, so I’d love to see him try to call me out for being this close to him. He’d be putting himself and everyone here in jeopardy.”
Lily nods. “True.”
