CHAPTER 21
CARTER
Friday had come, and it was almost ten o’clock in the evening. Emma hadn’t stopped pacing the floor. Nikolai supposedly said he’d find her wherever she was, and I was curious to see if the douchebag showed up on my doorstep.
Since Wednesday, Emma had been staying with me, and word spread through the gym that we were together. Her father shook my hand today and said that I was his first choice out of all the fighters in the gym. When it came to Ryley, Camden, and Uncle Pax, they’d all been like fathers to me, helping me train to be the best. I hated keeping the situation with Scar away from Ryley, especially when it concerned his daughter, but I had to believe he’d trust me to do what was right. That was what I planned to do, no matter the cost.
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