Her Champions_A high school bully romance by Taylor Blaine

Author:Taylor Blaine [Blaine, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Captiva Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-09-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Gray

I slipped out of the locker room and moved to stand in a corner before I started my warmup. I had to get in that ring in thirty minutes. I’d be ready physically, even if I wasn’t ready mentally.

Stryker’s fight should be starting any second. I searched the gym for him, spying his broad shoulders without a shirt on by the far side of the gym opposite me. He shook his head as he stood talking to Gunner.

Stryker’s gaze flicked my direction and slid right past me as if he didn’t recognize me or didn’t see me. I was far enough in the shadows not seeing me was entirely possible.

My stomach growled. I reached into my backpack and pulled out a pack of jerky and a bottle of water Stryker had set out for me on the counter. Chewing on the tough but tasty teriyaki flavored meat strip, I studied the rest of the gym occupants.

Made up of a lot of people I didn’t recognize, the crowd shifted and milled as groups found places to sit and chat. Some held programs in their hands while others gripped bright pink fliers.

My dad showed up beside me, an odor of alcohol coming off him like he’d bathed in a vat of beer and rinsed in cheap whiskey. “Gray, your fight is fifteen minutes. Blaze forfeited his fight to Stryker after he got in the ring.”

I jerked my gaze to Dad’s face to verify just how honest he was being with me. If Blaze had waited until the fight started, he’d be eligible to fight his other fights that day. All of them. Even the final fight that would give him a shot at Stryker. He’d ensured the fight with Stryker would happen, if he could just make sure he won every single fight until then.

Moving my hand in the air to get him to leave, I clenched my jaw until he wandered off. There would be more people there. More chances for bigger bets. The final fight would be at six and there was a big taco bar and pizza buffet being sponsored in the cafeteria by Dominick’s group.

He wanted to make sure he made a killing in the gambling side of things, but I couldn’t figure out what he really wanted to happen. Had he come? Did he have my mom with him? Or Sara?

I swung my arms, hard and fast and then slow as I tried to loosen up my shoulders.

Stryker and Gunner moved to the side and then ducked behind the bleachers out of sight.

Even though I knew they had things to do, I couldn’t help the ache in my chest at seeing Stryker disappear. He hadn’t seen me. Or he had and he decided to ignore me with my hair.

A small voice inside me tried to reassure me that maybe he just hadn’t recognized me.

Brock was up. He bounced up the floor, his chin tucked and his eyebrows drawn together. He climbed through the ropes and I glanced around for his cousins to come and cornerman for him.

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