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Estella Mackey is under high stakes when she decides to take on working at a notorious underground fight club to pay off her father's debts... and when she runs into the club's most successful fighter, one who has much more to him than meets the eye, she finds herself captivated by the world around him and who he truly is. Soon she finds herself pulled in too deep into his world to find her escape. And with an inevitable sinister future looming over her, through all of the chaos and carnage, she is faced with the most fatal challenge of all... obtaining her own survival. ••• I swallowed thickly, my nerves rising as I listened to his hysteric rambling, "I'm sorry, but I don't think I know what you're talking about." "The Payne's!" He throws his hands into the air, the remnants of whatever pills he took being the cause of all his dramatics. "They control everything- they control 𝓂𝑒 and I can't fucking take it anymore! I've never been anything other than the product of what they created inside of that cage, and I'm-" "Wait, wait..." I held up a hand between us to gently urge him to stop speaking, his mouth closing and eyes moving down towards my hand. "I'm sorry, but you're not going to remember this conversation in the morning, and by the off chance you actually do, I don't want you to hate me for letting you talk about it while you're like this." His eyes flicked up to meet mine, the soft green shining under the luminescence of my living room. Even as angry as he was, and despite the mayhem that was flooding his mind, I still caught the flicker of a smile that teased at the corners of his lips. "I could never hate you, Red." STARTED: May 20, 2023
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