“What the hell, man?” Karl had the bad sense to complain, whereas Sven played possum as I dragged them both from the room.
“The hell is that I’m challenging you two. Apparently, somebody needs to dust the ring off and teach you some f*****g respect for the females of this pack,” I snarled, not releasing my grip.
“You can’t challenge both of us,” Karl complained again, clearly too stupid to know when to shut the hell up.
I ran him into a nearby stack of free weights on the way by, knocking a twenty-five pounder free to roll across the gym, but I didn’t stop to pick it up. I had asses to beat.
I almost made it to the door of the gym, silently seething as I imagined all the ways I was going to punish these two ingrates before I fired them on the spot for disrespecting Leigh, when I heard
