Chapter 78

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78

""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

the Dominic case and me on it." Miro said, stopping me in my tracks. "He knows you will put up a

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

writing in the caption, "Since you're a grown man now and you don't need my help anymore, here is the workload for our businesses. Go through them and

thumbs up emoji in it. I scoffed

Ryn

she was with me

"Nothing" I replied.

beat of silence passed between us before Ryn spoke up again. I have reached out to a house agent. He's helping me

on to my fleeting patience. Why is everyone

you to move out, Ryn." I said. "I am not

"I just don't want you

sadness before I

her pendant. "Sometimes, I wish my parents left me a sibling before they died, that way I won't feel so alone in this

a deep breath to take it all in. How can someone like Ryn be

cancel on him. You're staying with me until

"But-"

buts, please." I

I saw her look at me. "Thank

to reach the Academy, I got a

to infiltrate the

"I'll be right there.

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