Million Dollar Ride by M.L. Mabrer

Author:M.L. Mabrer [Mabrer, M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

HAYDEN'S POV

Hayden's heart was beating hard against his chest, and there would be the occasional queasy feeling in his belly. He felt his fingers tingling, and his waist ached mildly. He didn't know why, but his nerves were almost aflame. What would happen if he was unable to beat him? What would be his fate if he was unable to beat Austin again? He knew that was a very stupid thing to hinge his pride on and could not help the fact that it was the only thing he could do now that would bring him back to the man that he was.

"I didn't think this would be the image where I would find you, but…" Ike said behind him, and Hayden was surprised to see his father standing there with a blank expression. Hayden knew well that the blank expression meant many things, and the man just stood there observing him calmly then he blew breath through puffed cheeks and sat down beside him, then shook his head.

"What are you doing, son?" He asked. Hayden could almost feel his father's disapproval, but the thing was that he didn't care what happened. None of that mattered in the face of what he had to do.

"I send you on a vacation, and what do you come here to do, eh?" Ike asked.

"I saw Austin when I arrived here, and I did the only thing there was to do," Hayden said. The words, he knew, would sound okay to his father, but they meant a lot to him in a way he didn't think anyone could understand. He felt his father's gaze on him, and he wasn't even looking.

"What is your obsession with this, son? What is it that you are worried about, to take it to this extent? When you saw Austin, the next line of action would have been to ignore him, but you did the exact opposite. That is not the way you should have gone about this matter, and the fact that you don't see that is alarming. What if you go down there and lose?" He asked.

"You think I will lose?" Hayden asked.

"I think it is a foolish gamble, meaningless even. I don't think there is any sense to it, and I think you should end this right now," he said.

"You don't understand," he said.

"You are the one who doesn't understand. Austin is not like you. He has nothing to lose, and he will throw every ounce of himself in there. That's what makes the both of you diff…"

Hayden snapped.

"This is the problem. You have always thought that he and his brothers were better than me. You have always shielded me from the things they did and reduced me in their eyes. You wanted to protect me as your son, but you let them walk into the fire with open arms. For many years all I could do was try to catch up, and they all stood and left for the army, so there was nothing to catch up to.

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