Ringside by Chase Elodie

Author:Chase, Elodie [Chase, Elodie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-30T07:00:00+00:00

Angel

The bathroom they’d let me use to clean up wasn’t much different to the locker rooms I was used to, after a fight.

It had running water and washcloths though, and that was really all that mattered to me right then.

I shoved my hands under the water and splashed as much of it could on my face and upper body. It wasn’t time to look in the mirror yet. Not yet, but soon.

I probably looked like hell. Judging by the way Sloane had been babying me, I must have scared her. The cut man had said the gashes on my face wouldn’t need to be stitched, so I just cleaned them out as best I could and plastered a couple of thick band aids across the worst of it.

There. Job done, I let myself look in the mirror. Just like always, it wasn’t as bad as it felt. I’d hurt tomorrow, but in a couple days the bruises would reach their peak and in a week or two I’d be as good as new.

None of the pain I felt now mattered compared to the win I’d just had, though!

I closed my eyes, letting myself dwell on the months of training, the hours of video assessment of an opponent that the damn Carellos had ended up switching on me in a last ditch effort to bring me down.

It hadn’t worked, though. They’d trotted out a monster to defeat me, and I’d dug in and laid him out cold.

That should show them. If this victory didn’t earn me a shot at something much bigger, there wasn’t any justice in this world.

And Sloane had come! I hadn’t been sure she would, but she hadn’t let me down. Seeing her burst out from the crowd of rowdy spectators and run to my side at the end of the fight had felt right.

I could get used to this.

I gave myself the once over in the mirror again. Jai and Jesse would be looking out for Sloane now, but that didn’t mean I wanted to leave her out there any longer than I had to.

The people who’d attended the fight would be gone by now, but I found that more and more I was missing her. Not just now, but in my life in general.

I threw my pants on and a new shirt and went out into the parking garage. Sloane and Jai was there, but Jessie had vanished.

I couldn’t take my eyes off of Sloane, though. She’d worn a tight-fitting dress that hugged her frame, and just looking at her made some of the hurt the Russian had dished out turn to smoke and blow away.

“Thanks for coming,” I said to her, suddenly self-conscious of my banged up face.

“I said I would, didn’t I?”

I shrugged and turned to Jai, eager to get rid of him and spend some time with Sloane. “Thanks for staying back. Where’d Jessie wander off to?”

Jai shrugged. “Don’t know. ‘Business’ was all he said.

I nodded and shook his hand. “I owe you. I’ll talk to a couple of guys I know and set something up for you, Jai.

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