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My fingers curl around the cage and ht eye swells and his lip is busted His body droops forward and fatigue slows his uard Sweat drips off his body like a faucet "Tap him out"

"Thirty seconds left, Hays," says John "He can do it"

But I don’t want him to do it "What round?"

"Second"

The ers Dear God in heaven

Matt es for his e vibrates as their bodies slam onto the fence In a smooth, fluid motion, Matt pins West and pounds hiin to buckle and if he falls to the floor it’ll be over for good

"Knees, West! Use your knees!"

Chapter 80

West

"Knees, West! Use your knees!" It’s the first clear voice in the chaos A knee goes up, then another A sharp hit into the ribs and Matt stusThree rounds Three rounds for Haley

The bell rings and the ref slides in between us The world circles and I raise e, fighting for each intake of air Everything throbs and the exhaustion is enough to cause a loss of consciousness

Then there’s a face on the other side of the fence and I swear I’uard?" she shouts

Damn if she doesn’t sound like Haley "I’ the hell pounded out of you If you want to tap out, then tap out, but don’t stand there and let hilance around as best as I can withto the hallucination? Does no one give a fk I’ly real "I love you"

Her fingers curl around the fence and touch ainst my hot skin causes me to close my eyes Fuck, she seeorgeous eyes dig deep into ot a probleoes on my arm "Turn toward me, son"

The voice is John’s, but I’m not interested I’m only interested in what’s in front oflost in one and I can’t live through that again

"West," she says calo away," I answer "I don’t want you to go away"

She presses her nails into h to cause pain "I’rip on the fence "You’re what?"