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S back at him, I return him to Josephine, who assures ot this”

She’s supposed to be a bodyguard, but I don’t knohat the hell she is now She strolls outside with Racer and does soers into her hair and pulls and she even seems to like it

After a glance at the kitchen clock, I level aze at her “I want her there in fifteen minutes,” I say, and she nods

A liot the keys to Melanie’s convertible, parked just outside without the top down We all leap inside I drop down on the front passenger seat and then stare up at theof our te fuss is about wedding-dress buttons As far as I’m concerned, I should ride, in the car, withchurch, where we marry Period

“Re at the altar,

“Yeah, I know,” I whisper, turning back around But sometimes I just don’t know So oneis too easy to describe what I want to do

“Twenty-eightup to the altar in white, just for you,” Pete says

I stare out in silence

Brooke has been excited about this allif this, if that, if a cake, if not a cake I’d say yes to anything that made her voice more excited, and she’d kissdressed, ready for her day, and I feel like a ether to the church And then her best friend put stupid-girl ideas in her head I ride alone To a church I never go to To ood I’ anxious and this is an anxiety that would have been appeased if she’d opened the door and just looked at one still and all the roiling in one quiet

But it’s not happening

Now I have twenty-seven infernaltricks onlike a pendulum, and the only way I can seem to stop it is with her

Tappingin my hand Then I pull it off and it helps to see her name on its inscription: TO MY REAL, YOUR BROOKE DUMAS

PAST

THE DAY I SAW HER

The Seattle crowd roars as I coround ay

Far at the end and directly inawaits Twenty-three feet by twenty-three feet, four ropes parallel on each side, four fking posts, and that’s about it

That ring is a home to me When I’m not on it, I miss it When I train, I think about it

Every step I take in its direction pu My veins dilate, my heartbeat works to feed my muscles My mind sharpens and clears Every inch of ive these people the thrill they’re all yelling for

“Remy! I love you, Remy!” I hear them yell

“I’ll suck your ck for you, Remy!”

“REMY, POUND ME, REMY!”

“Reton, I want your Riptide!”

Stretching out , taking a look at the people surroundingMy name is on everyone’s lips And all their excitement and anticipation spins aroundpink shit at ht here Just me, some assle opponent, and our fists

I whip off my robe and hand it to Riley, my friend and Coach’s second, while people rise to their feet and screae the crowd They’re all standing All looking at ive theeance

I fking love it

I fking love those yells, the wo about the kind of shit they want me to do to them

“Re fe hot, Remy!”

I turn in as on her The one with long any hair, and amber eyes, and pink, plump lips that immediately part in shock I feel stupefied

My instincts kick in, and I take in the stranger with one quick sweep She’s young, athletic, and dressed de de eyes all over me

Holy god, I feel like she’s just run her tongue all over my cock