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“You were magnificent tonight.” The comment makes me want to vomit as he steps closer to me. Close enough to brush his fingers along my bare shoulder. “You deserve a nice, long, relaxing bath after that fight.”
“I would appreciate it.” I barely keep the sarcasm at bay. All I want is a shower and sleep, but it seems he isn’t done with me for the night.
“Come then, I’ll show you the way,” he remarks, placing a hand on the small of my back.
Tonight’s fight was grueling. The other fighter, she was a challenge, nearly as good as me. Nearly only because I still won. If I hadn’t, she’d have been better than me in the ring.
On the way there, as he did every other time, he guided me by the leash that connects to the collar around my throat. It’s sick and twisted to be treated like an animal, but I know better than to fight him on it. He’ll only go after the ones I care for most. The ones I try not to think about. It’s bad enough that I find myself thinking of Jade, but the rest, I can’t afford.
After the fight, he once again guided me back out the same way, but not before making it known who I fight for.
Outside the building, he blindfolded me before I was placed in the backseat of a vehicle. I wasn’t allowed to know where we were going, which sucked. I’m the type of person who needs to know my surroundings.
Only when we’d reached his home, I can only assume, did he take the leash off along with removing the blindfold from over my eyes and was now guiding me to a bathroom where I’ll be allowed to relax in a bath.
“Before I get in the bath, will I be allowed to shower the blood off?” I find myself asking.
“You may,” he remarks, making circles at the small of my back with his fingertips, and leans in his lips, touching the shell of my ear. “I would like to join you.”
“No thanks.” There’s no way I’ll let him near me like that.
He chuckles and steps away from me. “A day will come when I’ll have you under me. Now, shower and bathe, you were incredible tonight. The next fight is in two weeks. It gives you a week to heal and another to train.”
Great.
Two weeks.
“I’ll be ready.”
“I know you will.” He grins and steps away.
I know he’s not going to leave the room. I’m never left alone outside of the cage that is my room. Doing the best I can, I ignore him, strip out of my clothes, and climb in the shower. The bath has already been drawn for me, and I would like to soak my muscles after the fight. My entire body is throbbing from the intensity of the fight.
Making it quick, I wash the blood and sweat from my body. I don’t bother with a towel as I shut the water off and step out. I make my way right over to the tub and sink into the still-warm bath. I cringe as the cuts on my body sting. He must have had something put in here to make it unpleasant for me, but I refuse to react further or be done with the bath.
Leaning back, I try to relax, but it’s not easy. My body is in too much pain.
I give myself a total of ten minutes (I counted in my head) and get out, grab a towel, and wrap it around my body. “I appreciate the bath.”
“That’s good. Now, one of my men will escort you back to your room,” he says, giving me a once-over. “That is unless you care to join me in my bed.”
“I don’t think so,” I mutter.
“As you will.” He smirks and calls for one of his men, never using their names. None of them use names around me. He commands them to take me to my room and leaves me alone with one last lustful look that churns my stomach. This whole thing, him looking at me the way he does, it bugs me, and I’ll keep denying him until my last breath, which could very well be in two weeks with this next fight.
They’re only going to get harder and harder. To get my freedom back, it’s going to take everything in me to win it.
CHAPTER2
KEVLAR
Two Weeks Later . . .
“I’m telling you, Jason, I know something’s wrong.”
At the worry I hear in Jade’s voice, I spin around on my barstool and see both my new Prez and his woman coming into the clubhouse. We’d only just moved into the new place two weeks ago and only a couple of days ago finished furnishing the place.
The brick building we’d chosen is just on the outskirts of Pearl River. A populated area where the club is already in the works of opening a strip joint, restaurant, and garage. We’d just finished handling the paperwork yesterday for all the legal shit to get it started now to start with the other BS we’ve got to handle.
