Until You're Mine_Fighting for Her by Cindi Madsen

Author:Cindi Madsen [Madsen, Cindi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult; romance, enemies to lovers, Forbidden love, friends to lovers, mma, fighter, bad boy, artist, slow burn, fighting, cindi madsen
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Embrace)
Published: 2017-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Brooklyn

“Do you want to watch something?” I asked Trey, very aware of the good foot of space between us on the couch. You know what takes all the air out of your boyfriend surprising you by showing up early? Taking him down to the mat two times in a row. There’d been a voice in the back of my mind screaming it was a bad idea to step into the cage with him, but I’d let my pride and my irritation that he thought he could take me down so easily win out over common sense.

I’d let fucking Shane Knox mess with my head.

I ran my palms down my jeans. “I’m sorry about the gym. I just—”

“Let’s never talk about the gym again.” While Trey’s voice was as calm as ever, his words held a finality he didn’t usually use.

I picked up the remote, deciding anything was better than the impenetrable silence, but hesitated before clicking the power button. “Can’t it be something you’re proud of?”

“My girlfriend humiliating me in front of the meatheads she hangs out with all the time? You want me to be proud of that?”

“Yes?” When he put it like that, I supposed it didn’t exactly sound like something you bragged about at the company picnic. Still, I was proud I could defend myself. I’d felt stronger these past few weeks, and I didn’t realize how important that was to me until I’d questioned how well I could still protect myself. “I’m related to most of the meatheads, if that makes you feel better.”

“No. It doesn’t make me feel any better, Brooklyn.”

I grimaced, at a loss what to try next. I’d spent the first two weeks here in San Diego anticipating this trip and the next two confused and torn how to feel about us in general. Never in a million years could I have predicted it’d go this badly. “Do you want to go to the beach?”

Trey sighed. “This… Us…” He raked his hands through his sandy-colored hair and leaned forward on his forearms. “Long-distance has been rough. A lot rougher than I thought it’d be.”

I nodded. “It has. Are you saying that…you want to take a break?” It killed me that relief was my main emotion, kicking sorrow off the stage.

“I feel like I don’t even know who you are.”

“Because I know some self-defense moves and a few MMA takedowns?”

“Because there’s this whole other side to you, but mostly because of that guy at the gym,” Trey said. “You’re not that way with me.”

I shrugged. “I’m sorry I don’t want to murder you the way I want to murder him.”

Trey slanted me a look, and shit, I was going to cry, and I hated crying. “I wish I didn’t want to murder him so badly.” Or kiss him, or do more with him.

My…boyfriend? gave me a sad smile.

Out it came, one word at a time. Working at the gym and fitting in workouts; running into my ex at the bar and putting on

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