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"It was bad enough dealing hat happened, but he could have hundreds of these pictures and God only knohat he does with theh he knohere we live Even in prison he can get to me I’ll never be free of hi hin of desperation In a few more months he’ll be too concerned about how to pick up the soap in the shoithout getting arse raped to worry about getting you back He’s going away for a very long time and there’s fuck all he can do about it This kind of shit just gives the barristers ainst him" I did my best to reassure her, but I was as freaked out as she was The fact that he could get hold of the pictures and post them from prison had me worried about what else he could do froive ht," she told me "A few more months and this will all be over" It had to be, because I hadn’t been exaggerating If Frank caain, I’d kill to keep her safe
Three days later I held up rip of htened on the bench Why did the door have to be red? Of all the fucking colors a door could be, this one had to be red Changing rooht in This one was practically identical to the changing room I’d had when Eht, I started to lose focus
"You’ve got this fecker, Con, but don’t go soft on this guy It ht but Temple wants to hurt you He wants a show The cocky little fucker is top of his gaonna treat you like a stepping-stone, so you show him you ain’t one, okay?"
I didn’t hear a word that Danny said I couldn’t take oing down had picked Em up a bit, but truthfully, Frank’s letter had properly fucked ht, and just because he was in prison didn’t mean he couldn’t send soet those photos to her hadn’t he? Once I walked out the door and into that ring, ould protect her?
The slap to my face wokein fifteenwith Kieran’s feckin’ grandht Sixto lose Now I had E her felt like Itlike this was a bad fucking idea
"Kier, he’s not going to hold it together"
Kier swapped places with Danny and carried on taping "What’s going on, Con?" he asked me
"This place looks the same as the one where she was taken I can’t think about anything else," I told him Maybe I should have h to call me on my bullshit if I lied
"It’s not the same, Con You know that Frank’s in prison, and Euards than Justin Bieber You can do this Stop worrying about ill happen when you lose everything and start getting ht here and she yours So what happens when someone messes hat’s yours?" he asked
"I decietnails and no one was fucking with uy histles or tries to grab her arse tonight?" he goaded
"I’ll deci the adrenaline starting to kick in
"And what happens," he said finally, "if someone tried to take her?"
"I WILL FUCKING DECIMATE THEM" I enunciated slowly, completely pumped now
"Thatta boy," he replied with a smile "He’s ready," he said to Danny, who’d swapped places with Kieran to put on et out of there Pumped and primed, I wanted to hurt someone The second he was done, I ju at the pads with Kier Cross, cross, jab Cross, cross, jab I clearedbut the pads How to move my body to land the perfect punch was instinctive Years of relentless training did that There wasn’t a how or a hen I fought The only thing that concernedhere to land my fist to cause the maximum pain But this time was different This time my opponent had a face, and it was Frank’s It burnedthat went down, I hadn’t had the chance to lay a fist on him I was a valve with no release, and if I didn’t vent that rage and fear soon, I was going to explode, and there’d be casualties in the wake Danny watched etting in the ring carrying any kind of baggage was a bad fucking idea It hy he ht Inside those ropes I was supposed to be an e tiement team opened my door "Con, it’s time," he toldjust long enough to slip it on Danny opened the door and cringed as h the speakers Fort Minor’s "Remember the Name" didn’t do it for hio, and it sort of stuck The bass wasmy blood pump and I strutted out of the room like I was invincible
"You ready?" Kieran asked
"Hell, yeah," I replied I burned with the need to hurt soe on Rico Te
"I hate that cocky little shit as ht s to hurt hihts under his belt than you do, so you need to think about how you’re gonna do this," he toldabout his advice Making hirab ht at hiht difference