Chapter 78

Chapter THEON

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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

Dominic case and me on it." Miro said, stopping me in my tracks. "He

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. and now I am being asked to travel the world to attend board meetings and speaking events. The need to be petty suddenly came over me so

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 secure the pending contracts.

later I got his email and it was just a thumbs up emoji

Ryn

suddenly remembered she was

"Nothing" I replied.

to a house agent. He's helping me find

hold on to my fleeting patience. Why is everyone choosing to test me

"I am not a fool for

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

look at her and felt her sadness before I saw it in

lingering her pendant. "Sometimes, I wish my parents left me a sibling before they died, that

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?

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

"But-"

please."

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

were about to reach the Academy, I got

way to infiltrate the North and

"I'll be right there.

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