Kai.
The punch landed hard against my cheek, snapping my head to the side. My body staggered, my vision blurred. I heard the jeering from the crowd before I even steadied my breath.
“Come on, pretty boy,” Spider taunted, circling me like he already knew he had me. His voice was loud enough for the crowd to eat up. “I heard you were the undefeated champion for two years?”
The crowd roared with laughter, some chanting, some calling my underground name.
“Snake! Get up, Snake!”
“Don’t tell me I wasted my money on you!”
Their voices blurred into one crashing wave of noise, pressing into my skull. My jaw ached, my ribs screamed with every breath I took as I struggled to find my vision, but it wasn’t the pain that was dragging me down.
It was her.
Aria. Her face. Her voice when she told
