Christina (Daughters Series, #1) by Leanne Davis

Author:Leanne Davis [Davis, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leanne Davis
Published: 2015-06-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

~Max~

I BROKE OUR HEARTS on a Friday night, so guess what I’m ready to do on Saturday night? That’s right, to kick some ass. Preferably my own. I didn’t have to make any excuses. Christina obviously wouldn’t talk to me. Lindsey and Noah were out to dinner for some business meeting. So I simply left and went to the address Bruce gave me. It was an hour’s ride away in a little nothing town. The building was an old skate deck, of all things. It was converted into a dance club that also, after hours, runs fights. I had to wait until Bruce actually claimed me before I was allowed in the back. The fighting ring was just the old, wooden floor of the skating rink, dinged and scratched without any shine. Old lanes of the rink were still visible. The ceiling was high and the place grew loud with the crowd. Only some roping was used to keep the crowd back from the “ring.” Yeah, about now is when a sane person would have run away. A sane person would have done anything, but strip off his shirt and start bouncing around like a jackrabbit in a kind of informal warm-up.

Tanya finds me. “You came.”

I nod. I feel like shit even talking to her. After what I did with Christina, just acknowledging Tanya feels like I’m cheating on her. Yeah, it doesn’t make sense.

Recently, I deduced that Tanya is Bruce’s sister. Go figure. That Bruce doesn’t kick my ass for doing his little sister is a relief. He could take me out with a well-placed jab. But these two don’t share that kind of sibling relationship. They run a fight ring, and work the club legitimately. Gambling runs amok around the place. I’m sure they stiff me in my thirty percent. I just don’t care enough to contest it. And I am a little bit afraid to cross Bruce. I swear, I’ve seen some of the shady-looking guys coming from and going to his office at the club. No way would I want to risk one of those guys being directed my way.

Laying low, I fight, and try to win. When I don’t, I consider it a blessing to wake up alive in the locker room. They kind of throw me off into the showers and start running the cold water. I’m not the only one who gets ditched like that either. If a loser is still conscious, they simply take him out of the way and let him be on his way. But if we’re totally passed out, into the cold shower we go. Like I said, not the greatest crowd when it comes to compassion.

Now, however, after touching the goodness, which I think of Christina as embodying, the darkness of this place actually feels good. I feel released and set free. I feel like I can finally just be the real Max Salazar.

Entering the ring tonight, I find another small guy like me. Rarely do I fight an opponent in what would be considered a fair fight.

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