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"What was that about?" Abel asked curiously

Hector shook his head, forcing a smile as he approached Abel and Gio "All day, they’ve been airing McKinley’s obnoxious rants, and those idiots" He pointed over his shoulder back in the direction of the guys for whom he’d just ripped a new one "They know better than to be watching the clips in here on their phones"

Turning back to Gio, Abel smirked His brother--forever the hothead "Yeah, so what’s McKinley been saying?"

"Don’t worry about that," Noah said, walking up to theave Hector an irritated look He was probably ht it up Abel understood all too clearly He re Roni Hector had soood news about her that Abel kneould piss Noah off They waited until after the fight to tell hiht Then it hit hi the clips there and as the tension he’d felt when he first walked in

"He’s not still bad Nellie, is he?"

"No," Noah said a little too quickly "Now focus here" Noah touched the pad on Gio’s hand "Right here is where your head should be"

Just the thought of that assle McKinley trashing Nellie on television pissed him off so much that he landed a hard one on Gio’s pad--a lot harder than Gio was expecting because it threw hied now "This is why you don’t think about any of that shit before the fight It’ll ame It’s what they want, Abel It’s their only hope You know this"

"Yeah," Hector quickly agreed, the look on his face a clear indication of the regret he felt now for having even brought up the subject

With a deep breath, Abel brought his attention back to the pads and started the drills again, this tie that his fists wanted to unleash He’d save it for the ring He didn’t even have to knohat that idiotto know that he already wanted to knock hiht If he didn’t focus, he’d be a o in there ready to kill That would never work He needed to focus

To add to the tension he’d felt fro to worry about Nellie She should’ve been there by now They werethe walk out to the ring with him, but he wanted her here while he warmed up He wanted her by his side until the very last moment

Andy wasn’t anywhere around now Abel could only hope he was out doing what he’d asked hiet her frootten et there

Still wearing his gloves, he asked Hector to get Nellie on the phone for hiht, what’s going on?" he asked, suspiciously and ht "You two know so I don’t?"

Both shook their heads, but neither would lanced away "This is ridiculous What is it? Hauys think I can’t handle it? I know he’s an assle" He clenched his jaw, reht "How bad can it be?"