A Savage Redemption (A Series of Savage Gentleman Book 3) by Christopher Harlan

Author:Christopher Harlan [Harlan, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-22T18:30:00+00:00

20

Damien

Things are looking up.

Got my stitches. Got my fight check. And, most importantly, I got the win I needed to get after Johnny. Now it’s just a matter of being offered that fight, accepting, training, and beating that dude into submission. And that’s just the start of my plans.

From there, I’m hopefully going to get a call up to the UFC, but I’m not even thinking that far anymore. All I need to worry about is winning that championship, the rest will fall into place, especially if I make short and impressive work of Johnny.

One thing at a time. For right now, I have a few weeks of rest. When you have cuts or injuries you have to take some mandatory time off before you’re allowed to fight again. A cut is nothing to mess around with—if I reopen it grappling or sparring it could delay me even more, so I’m taking the month off to just rest, recover, and enjoy my time.

But, for a fight nerd like me, resting doesn’t mean sitting around eating Cheetos and watching Netflix—for me it means hanging around at the gym and helping out in any way that I can.

I walk in the front door to a hero’s welcome—literally the room fills with the sound of applause, and all I feel is embarrassed, like someone getting Happy Birthday sung to them—there’s no choice but to stand there awkwardly until it’s over. Still, I remember that this is all love and support, and, even though it makes me a little uncomfortable, I love every one of them for it.

I make eye contact with Lucas and some of the guys, who come over to me and shake my hand and congratulate me on a well-earned victory. I thank them all, one at a time, and then Lucas pulls me to the side.

“Have you talked to Matt at all?” he asks.

“No, why?”

“I don’t know. He’s got this weird energy and I can’t really tell why. And you know him, he’s not the most expressive dude in the world. His house could have burned down ten minutes ago and we wouldn’t hear about it except to see it on the news. That’s just how he is.”

“That’s true. What do you mean weird energy? How is he being weird?”

“Just not himself. Usually his serious face is just that—but he seemed. . .”

“What?”

“Down,” Lucas tells me. “He seemed down. Like bummed out over something.”

“That’s not like him at all. Intense, yes. Bummed out? It doesn’t make any sense, especially with the gym doing well and the two of us thriving right now. What does he have to be down about?”

“I don’t know, maybe I’m misreading it.”

“I hope so.”

“I guess you’ll get to see for yourself,” Lucas tells me.

“What do you mean?”

“He said to go see him when and if you got here—that he needed to talk to you about something. It didn’t sound good.”

“Shit. I hope it’s not my fight with Johnny falling through. I hope that asshole isn’t ducking me.

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