The Bitter (Addiction #1) by Delilah Frost

Author:Delilah Frost [Frost, Delilah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Luna Raya Books
Published: 2016-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN

I barely make it out of bed the day after my first fight.

Thankfully, I am able to control my breathing and voice so Celia is none the wiser during our conversation on the phone. She does tell me she isn’t sure about this job. Apparently, while the patrons aren’t to the quality of douche as her last job¸ there are quite a few who look at the servers and hostesses as nothing more than glorified strippers. Strippers they can manhandle.

She says she’ll give it another few go’s but isn’t certain about it yet.

I tell her to trust her instincts.

Money is not worth her safety.

I am able to make it through three more weekends before Celia sees my bruises.

“What the hell happened to you?” she’d screeched upon seeing my naked back covered in black and blue.

“Fuck,” I’d chastised myself before putting my shirt back on. We’d been about to fuck, but that wasn’t going to happen with her worry. Thinking on my feet, I wracked my brain until I remember how much Frankie likes to work out. “Uh, since I haven’t been able to find any employment just yet, I’ve been going with Frankie and Brock to their gym. Figure I could work off some of this restlessness. They have a boxing ring.”

She’d stared at me for a long time and I’d figured I’d failed in my lie. But then she just shook her head. “Who are you fighting? The Incredible Hulk? Let me take a look at you.”

My laughter was weak, but she’d bought it. That was all that mattered.

Not only am I keeping this secret from Celia, but I try to keep who I am from the guys I fight with. We’re not exactly friends, not really at this point, but I don’t feel the need to share my life story with any of them for any real reason.

I can’t help my accent coming through on occasion so I copped to being from Texas fairly early on. I also explained I don’t really have a home to go back to down there when asked why I am in freezing Chicago so close to Canada when I can be closer to the warm, sunny beaches of Mexico. But I try to keep everything else to myself. Even the fact that I am not a single man and that even if I were, I don’t do random pussy like the rest of them do.

They can think and believe what they want to about me. It doesn’t matter to me.

I still haven’t won the Friday ‘main event’ yet, but I am getting closer. I choose to look at everything as a learning process. I am getting better. The guys who show up to watch, fight, and place bets are taking notice. And the pots are staying around two to three grand.

Thankfully, Spike continued to dish out the full amount from all entries so I am able to bring home at least five hundred every time I make it to the Friday main event.

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