18 Thane After Sera left the office, I stared at the computer screen blindly, thinking back to my last MMA cage match. Images flashed through my head of bloodied fists pummeling into Zack Mayer’s face, the crowd cheering me on. The way his head snapped back and forth each time my knuckles connected with his face. Even now I could still remember the rush of adrenaline as I beat the hell out of the guy who I thought had f****d my fiancée. The guy she’d implicated after hearing rumors that I’d been the one unfaithful to her. Bullshit rumors that had come out of nowhere. Sure, I’d cheated on other women in the past. Hadn’t given it a second thought most of the time. But never on Carrie. Not the woman I’d fallen in love with and wanted to marry. I closed my eyes, still hating myself for the

