Thirty One

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~CAKE~ By day four, they stopped calling it luck. By day six, they stopped betting against me. By day seven, everyone wanted a shot. Every fighter in Rome suddenly had something to prove. And apparently, my face was the prize. I trained in the mornings, fought in the evenings. Ice baths. Painkillers. Repeat. I barely slept. It didn't matter, money kept pouring in. The crowds got louder every night. They chanted my name like I’d been doing this for years instead of weeks. I won fast most nights. Knockouts. Submissions. One girl tried to play dirty, so I poked her eye first, and bit her ear hard enough to draw blood. No regrets. A win is a win. By the end of the week, I’d made so much cash I was already calculating how close I was to paying Nico back completely. So yeah. Maybe

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