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“Does this hurt, my Bez? Do you feel pain, my Bez?”
It throbbed.
But he knew it didn’t hurt.
This man couldn’t be mind-controlled into hurting her. Therefore, what was wrong with her that she couldn’t accept having a dangerously sexy, enigmatic husband and their adorably temperamental toddler and simply be happy?
He stepped back to give her space to get up and positioned himself in the fighter’s stance.
She rolled her shoulders.
He came at her, swinging, and she narrowly dodged each blow, bobbing and slapping them away. Mike’s opponent, she could have handled—easily. These guys of theirs? This team? They weren’t normal, and her husband was the mostuniqueof them all.
She fired a front roundhouse kick.
He used both hands to stop it, forcing her leg back, and she came close to losing her footing for what felt like the hundredth time since the fight began. According to the timer, five minutes hadn’t passed when the fight felt longer than her pregnancy.
Giorgio came at her again, and she went to strike, but he stepped around her. She prepared for him to toss her down, but he wrapped his elbow around her neck and one of his legs around hers and fell backward, locking her in a submission hold.
“I’m sorry, Gio.” She took a second to breathe, the hold stealing her oxygen. “I’m sorry.”
“Tell me.”
“I…can’t.”
“Why.”
“I’m…ashamed.” Tears sprung in her eyes. “This…hold is…intense.”
“Tap.” Somehow, he took the hold even tighter. “Bez, you could not lift Aleksi.”
Which hadn’t been from Book Club, but shehadsnuck off to an elite boxing gym where she’d had her ass handed to her. The minute she’d stepped back inside the house, Aleksi had toddled over with his arms raised. She’d been so sore, she wasn’t able to pick him up until the next day and couldn’t carry him for over a week.
Stars moved like snowflakes in her line of vision. While he would never let her pass out, she screamed and slapped the mat. He released her, and she turned to the side and coughed until her chest rattled.
When she could finally breathe, she looked up to find Giorgio’s hand extended. She grabbed it, and he pulled her up against him, then kissed her forehead. To her surprise, the crowd cheered and whistled.
“Why are they cheering?” she asked. “I got my ass beat.”
“You are only to put me on mat, my love.”
He released her, and as he left the cage, in all the time they’d been together, it was the first time she could say she truly had no idea what to say to him.
It wasn’t him.
It wasn’t Aleksi.
But it wasn’tnothing.
CHAPTER34
Joel kissed Ayesha against the side of her neck and started off, but she grabbed his hand.
“You haven’t fought yet?” she asked.
“I’m flattered you think I’d leave the cage this unscathed,” he gestured to his body, “but no. I’m next.”
“Number six?”
