Four or Dead by G O A

Four or Dead

Chapter 29

Leo... Present...

"again!" Emma growled out in frustration to Jayden as she pulled herself off the mat.

"Come on baby you need a break," Logan called out to her but she just waved him off. "No, I need to do this." She said instead.

Emma had been sparing with Jayden for over an hour and it was clear she was exhausted but she wouldn't stop. We tried to get her to just sit for a few minutes but she refused. She was strong for sure and picked up the moves Jayden showed her a lot quicker than most. They had moved past self-defense moves to full-on sparring in hand-to-hand fighting. She was a natural but she was losing energy and we all could see it.

She didn't want to be seen as the weak link in our group, but the boys and I had been training since we were young. This was new for her and she needed to build muscle and endurance to spare correctly for long periods.

"Enough Emma. You need a break." Jayden finally said when he pinned Emma to mat yet again. (*)

She squirmed beneath him trying to escape his hold but she was too Chapter 29

tired and too angry. Anger was never a good emotion to go into a fight with. When you attack in anger you tire out quickly giving your opponent an advantage.

"Emma you don't have anything to prove to us or anyone. This is simply to protect yourself if you need to." Jayden reminded her.

She stopped fighting him and I could see a silent conversation passing between them. Jayden was a hard guy to understand but Emma was not just anyone. She seemed to understand us better than anyone ever has. She offered each of us exactly what we need which shouldn't make sense but she was special that way. There weren't many girls who would be able to handle the emotional baggage of just one of us, but she was able to handle us all with ease.

I glanced to Logan and he nodded. Emma and Jayden needed some time alone so we stood and left the workout room.

"She is a lot better than J thought she would be," Logan admitted proudly when we walked into the kitchen.

"She is. It was always in her, she was just too afraid to use it." I said in agreement.

I want to be able to protect her always but I guess that's not exactly realistic."

the

dad. We don't know enough about

he has. We can't anticipate

nervous." I

well enough to anticipate their next mood." Logan groaned and dropped his head back. "Can't we

laugh but I understood where he was coming from. That seemed like the easiest solution but not knowing what connections he had meant we wouldn't

we could but we need to be smart. We don't want

dramatic sigh in reply but

Jayden...

herself. I had a lot more respect for our girl seeing her get

well," I said but I wasn't

mat and Emma was beneath me. Even after going through intense training she still

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still not good enough." She said letting out a frustrated

learn to channel it in

fingers through it. It was such an intimate gesture that I hadn't felt in so long and on instinct I wanted to pull away. Emma wasn't just anyone though so I let her do what she wanted. I lowered myself with crossed arms and rested myself

had a way of making my heart flutter in such a clique

too good for me, but I needed her. She was like an addiction, with just a small taste of her I couldn't help but keep wanting more. I had been fighting my attraction to her for years now and here she was

after a few minutes and pulled her into my lap, needing her to be wrapped around me. Holding her was like breathing and I had been suffocating for way too long. she straddled my lap and looked down at

beautiful did you know that?" My body went still at her words and she let

one had ever called me beautiful before. Most guys would find such a compliment degrading, but coming from my girl I knew it was the highest of compliments. My mother said I was handsome like my father but no one had called me beautiful before. Now that I'm older and I wear a cold no emotional expression almost all the time it was hard to imagine that anyone found my looks particularly appealing. They were probably too afraid to get a good look at me anyway. (7 Emma placed her hands on either side of my face and lowered her head to mine. "I know you don't like people to see what is going on inside you, but please don't shut yourself off from me. There is nothing about you that I don't

but she had no idea just how dark I was. If I told her everything I had done I knew for a

is so much you still don't know,"

forehead

the work you do involves shakedowns, hits, and more." She

needed to know who had shared all this with our