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

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

in the waiting area and 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. and now I am being asked to

regardless, then I emailed his portion to him, writing in the caption, "Since you're a grown man now and you don't need my help anymore, here is

I got his email and it was just a thumbs up emoji in it. I scoffed and shook my head. "F****

Ryn

she was with

"Nothing" I replied.

reached out to a house agent. He's helping me find a place, so soon I will be out of your

fleeting patience. Why

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

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

felt her sadness before I saw it in her yes. "Why

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

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

house agent and cancel on him. You're staying with

"But-"

buts, please." I cut

saw her look at me. "Thank

to reach the Academy, I got

the North and

"I'll be right there.

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