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“You wanna climb on?” I raised an eyebrow at her. “You sit on Daddy’s lap and peel off that top, he might have something real nice for you.” I eyed her little yellow tube top. She didn’t appear to be wearing a bra underneath.
“Uh… I don’t think I’m in the mood,” she said softly.
Yeah, I could see that. She still looked halfway sick.
“You okay, little dove?”
“I’ve been better, you know?”
“So, you didn’t enjoy the fight? Or you just didn’t like watching some guy hit me?”
“Honestly… I didn’t really like any of it, Shane.”
Okay, I did not actually expect her to say that.
“I’m glad you won,” she added quickly. “Obviously. I just don’t think I was prepared for… that.”
“For what?”
“It just… wasn’t what I expected, I guess.”
That was the same thing she said about Bliss. And we both knew how that night turned out. So, this didn’t seem like a good thing.
“What did you expect?”
“I just didn’t know it would be so… raw.”
“Yeah, I guess there’s nothing more raw than two men in a bloody fistfight.”
She eyed me carefully. “You were really good. I’m no fight expert, but it was pretty intense. And you made him tap out.”
“Yes, I did.”
“Did you know that would happen?”
“I would’ve loved to knock him out. But once he took it to the floor, I knew I’d make him submit. I’ve seen him fight before. I have better jiu-jitsu and better wrestling.”
“Then… don’t you want to fight in the UFC or something? Be a professional fighter?”
“No. I don’t want to go pro.”
“Why not?”
“Because, Jolie. You go that route, at any time someone else has the power to sayNo, not this guy, and drop you, shut the door in your face. Everything you’ve worked for, devoted your life to, gets taken away from you.”
She held my gaze. “And this route, at any time, you have the opportunity to get killed.”
Man, she sounded like Dane.
“I don’t like someone else having control over what I can and can’t do.”
“So, you don’t want to have to meet a standard?” she challenged, gently. “Be a professional?”
“There is a standard. And I set it.”
She said nothing.
“I’ve lost four fights in five years,” I explained, “and every guy who’s beaten me, I’ve gone on to fight him again and beaten him. I’ve beat every guy I’ve ever fought.”
