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"Tijuana The usual"

"Let me transfer some money over for you," he stated nonchalantly

"No, seriously I’ood I can take care of this myself"

"I’m sure you can But I also know that these trips co you out You don’t want to be broke once you actually get her back, do you?"

I knew that this hy Audrey fell for Jace He was completely selfless and would help any of his friends or fa hiardless if I’d asked for help or not

"I’ll pay you back With interest," I replied brusquely

"You just n on the dotted line and that’ll be payback enough," he said with a grin He reached his hand out so I could shake it but then promptly pulled me in and iftly patted backs

"Thanks, man"

Before heher back here, okay? I want to o into these trips withhouard my heart, I always had to expect the worst

- TWO -

Bouncing on my toes, Mateo continued to wrapin was dark and sled above us, allowing Mateo just enough visibility to get his job done

All I wanted was to get this over with I hated coy in these sketchy undergroundblew and made my skin crawl

"Have you seen hiuys He’s here," Mateo responded under his breath

"I don’t think I’ve been training enough lately Shit, Teo" I ra cut More so than the last tiedit

I watched as he slipped the loop around my thuer, overpattern, and finished with a final pull over my wrist

"How’s the support in your thuers, feeling everything out I allowed the blood to flow through each appendage before I cut it off swiftly with a tight fist and then opened theain Sweat beaded in the sle drop running down the center of ood, man"

"Okay, just reuys," Mateo began the saain "You don’t need to fight to the death If you’re injured, just go down Winning doesn’t et into the after-party" He tookjob one et bottle service, so it wouldn’t hurt if you tried a little bit," he shed despite the stress and jabbed his shoulder lightly

I looked forward to the day when I wouldn’t have to coetand the best workout I’ve cohts I hated the people and all of the dealing and betting that they did on the side of the ring Conniving bastards I hated being associated with thehts were only a distraction fro on