Pushing the Limits by Jennifer Snow

Author:Jennifer Snow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-23T16:02:57+00:00

Chapter 8

Sitting in his truck behind Punisher Athletics the following Monday after work, Dane fought the urge to tear out of the parking lot. He still wasn’t sure how he had agreed to accept this fight.

Somewhere inside he knew this was the right thing to do. He wasn’t returning to the cage because he wanted to go back to a fighting career. He wasn’t stepping inside the octagon to give Rico his shot at redemption. He was taking this one and only fight in an attempt to move past the demons plaguing him. He was going insane with guilt and grief and soon they would consume him, if he didn’t at least try to beat them.

That still didn’t make it any easier to open the door and climb out of the truck.

Tossing his gym bag over his shoulder, he made his way toward the gym and went inside. The familiar surroundings—the octagon in the center of the floor, the heavy bags along the far wall, the workout equipment and weights upstairs, the smell of leather and sweat and blood—all made him feel as though he hadn’t been away for a year. The loud heavy-metal music playing on the sound system throughout the gym drowned out the thumping of his heart as, head down, he made his way to Tyson’s office. He noticed several guys glance up from their training, but he wasn’t ready to talk to anyone yet, so he kept walking.

“Hey, man. Glad you didn’t back out,” Walker Adams, another middleweight fighter, called from where he sparred inside the cage.

So much for making it inside the office without talking to anyone. “The day’s not over yet,” he called to him, but he knew he wouldn’t back out. Once he’d given Tyson his word the night before, there was no changing his mind.

His coach had answered on the first ring. And it was a good thing because had he not, Dane would have found a reason to hang up. “When do you want to start training?” he’d asked immediately.

“That confident that’s why I’m calling, huh?”

“It better be,” Tyson had replied, and ten minutes later he’d hung up the phone wondering what the hell he’d just done.

And opening Tyson’s office door a minute later confirmed that he was locked into this fight.

“Yes. He’s here now to sign the contract,” Tyson was saying into the phone. He gestured for him to have a seat where the contract from the MFL sat waiting for his signature. His knees felt like rubber as he sat, setting his bag on the floor. His mouth was dry as he scanned the document again. Since Tyson had e-mailed him a copy the day before, he’d read and reread it. The MFL was really concerned with him being aware that this was a one-time-only fight, and they weren’t offering him an extension upon a possible win.

Because they wanted him to lose.

He shouldn’t care. He wasn’t concerned with robbing Rico of the undefeated hall-of-fame title, but he did care. A lot.

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