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Frankie looks over her shoulder from the passenger seat to where Colton, Ben, and I are crammed in the back of Lucian’s car. “Y’all good back there?”?
Ben shifts to give himself more room, putting his arm over my shoulders. I raise my eyebrow suggestively toward Frankie, and she just laughs, eyeing Ben’s arm.?
My body hums with anticipation at watching Nox fight tonight.Nervous,because, from what I’ve heard, you never know what you could be up against at The Underground.Excited,because I love watching him in action doing something he genuinely loves so much... Something I love doing because of him. Andcurious,because I know Nox and he isn’t doing this to show off or prove something. He has to have another agenda for tonight’s sudden fight; I’m just not sure what.???
Lucian hits some buttons on his phone and the ringtone buzzes through the Bluetooth in his car.?
“What up?” Ford’s voice sounds through the speaker.?
“Where exactly is it on 421?”?
“The old Walmart in between Richmond Hills and Mountain Ridge.”??
“Oh yeah, I remember that place,” Frankie chimes in.?
“Y’all come to the side entrance when you get here.”?
“How is he?” Lucian asks.?
“Zoned in and ready.”?
“Alright, we’ll be there in fifteen,” Lucian confirms, and the music blares again through the old Nissan.?
Fifteen minutes later, we are pulling up to the rundown blue building.?
Lucian looks to us as we walk toward the door. “Stay close.”?
“Yes, Dad,” I smart back.?
“Yeah, my brother will really lose his shit if he thinks you aren’t safe,” Colton says, directing his words to me, and now it's Frankie’s turn to raise her brows.?
“I can take care of myself.” I roll my eyes and walk ahead of them.?
Two girls at the door, dressed in barely-there clothes, are passing out betting cards. Ignoring them, I move past in search of Nox.?
Almost right away, I spot his dark hair over in the corner, a foot taller than most in the crowd. Pacing back and forth, he’s seemingly ignoring everything Ford says to him.?
I push my way through the crowd, including the pack of women already standing near him, trying to get an ounce of his attention. But he’s too focused to pay them any mind.?
Until I breach through the makeshift barricade around him, and his green eyes look up, directly at me from the hole he’s been burning in the ground.?
Ford lets out an “Ah fuck,” distracting my attention as a pissed-off Nox pulls me farther into his corner.?
“What the fuck are you doing here?” he snarls at me, his touch sending electricity through my body.?
I jerk out of his grip. “Well, hello to you too, asshole.”?
“I’m serious, Em. Who did you come with?”?
“How about you chill the fuck out and say, ‘thank you, Emerson’ for coming to support my dumb ass.”?
The four others join us in a rush, and Nox glares at his brother.?
Frankie must read the room, because she moves in to give Nox a quick hug, and I hear her whisper, “Chill, bruh.”?
“Maybe I’ll see if there are any female fighters looking for a fight tonight,” I antagonize because I love getting a rise out of him.?
“Like fuck you will…” I hear Nox say, and right before I can call him a hypocritical motherfucker, my brother chimes in.?
