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

wants you off the Dominic case and me on it." Miro said, stopping me in my tracks. "He knows you will put up a fight and he's

together we entered the back seat of my car and left the building, 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.

surprised but she went on to do it regardless, then I emailed his portion to him, writing in the caption, "Since you're a grown man now and you don't

thumbs up emoji in it. I scoffed

Ryn

and I suddenly remembered she was with me

"Nothing" I replied.

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

my fleeting patience. Why is everyone choosing to test me

out, Ryn." I said. "I am not a fool for bringing you into my

"I just don't want you having issues with your brother

to look at her and felt her sadness before

"Sometimes, I wish my parents left

deep seated sadness washed over me and I had to take a deep breath to take it all in. How can someone like Ryn be the center of so much chaos? What is

looked out the window. "Call your house agent and cancel on him. You're staying with me until you graduate

"But-"

please." I cut

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

reach the Academy, I got a call from one of

infiltrate the North and get

"I'll be right there.

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