Chapter 78

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""What is it? Tell me

"I can't "Miro said with a shrug. "They spoke in code while I was there. They weren't directly talking to me and I couldn't pick up mich before I began my fight."

I took a moment to think and then his last statement raised a question. "Did you have a match at Club Zero?"

Miro sh**ed his gaze from me "No I had a match at Maplebees

1 swallowed as my mouth went dry. The same bar where he got kidnapped. Now his bruised knuckles made sense. He rarely bruised his knuckles at Club Zero because the contenders there were vanilla fighters but at Maple Bees, the fighters there were tough and were mostly hardened criminals taken from deli row hired to make money.

"You only get a match there now if you are fighting on behalf of a well-connected and powerful sponsor. So who hired you?"

Miro looked me dead in the eye. "Dad"

raised a brow, not particularly surprised. "You're a fighter for Dad?"

"Yes" He said smugly. I bet

I bet he had no idea what he just got himself into but I won't rain on his parade. Not now that he don't want my help anymore. "Good luck to you." I smiled before proceeding to leave the room

stopping me in my tracks. "He knows you will put up a fight and he's prepared for you. Just

Ryn sat quietly, looking out the window while I worked on my phone, replying to business emails and checking on my schedule with my virtual assistant. Apparently, I have been slag***g at work due to the attention I paid to Ryn. and now I am being asked to travel the

a grown man now and you don't need my help anymore, here is the workload for our businesses. Go through them and secure the pending

email and it was just a thumbs up emoji in it. I scoffed and shook

Ryn

remembered she was with me in the

"Nothing" I replied.

of silence passed between us before Ryn spoke up again. I have reached out to a house

my fleeting patience. Why is

"I am not a fool for bringing

"I just don't want you

look at her and felt her sadness before I saw

is. She said, lingering her pendant. "Sometimes, I wish my parents left me a

to take it all in. How can someone like Ryn be the center of so much

house agent and cancel on him. You're

"But-"

buts, please." I

corner of my eye, I saw her look at me. "Thank you." She muttered

the Academy, I got a call from one of my

developed a way to infiltrate the North and get the flower,"

"I'll be right there.

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