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Scrubbing a hand over his face, he hated to be the one to break her heart This was not how he io He’d always known that their paths would collide again He didn’t knoould happen, only that it would, and he wasn’t wrong

“You knohat I’ at, but you don’t like the answer”

Belle wasn’t a fucking idiot He watched her, seeing the answers staring right back at him

“What you’re saying is … nant, so that I would be drawn back into the life? That’s crazy and stupid”

“Is it, or are you just too embarrassed to the see the truth?” He waited a few seconds, seeing her eyes fill with tears “That you were so desperate for attention that the first guy who showed it to you, you gave it up for”

The tears fell, and he expected her to throw so at hi, and he watched as she got to her feet “I need to sleep”

He didn’t stop her as she entered one of the spare bedroo off his bourbon, he sat back in his chair, and rubbed at his temples

This was too much of a headache Why the fuck did he do this? Why didn’t he just walk ahen he had the chance?

His cell phone rang, and he saas Carlos on the line “I thought I told you to leave?”

“I did leave I left to gather inforured I could help you by finding out everything you need so you don’t go into yourblind”

Drago couldn’t help but s the man Carlos seemed to knohat he wanted even before he did

“What do you know?”

“The odds of the fight were leaked out to a fen players,” Carlos said “Even before the fight took place In fact, Belle’s fights have been fixed fro”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“They believed she’d win the first five fights They were guaranteed wins”

“Okay”

“After that, the odds started to drop, but on the seventh fight there was a complication Ruhter, Kendra Girl is eighteen years old, undefeated The odds were for Belle to fall within the first two rounds”

“But she didn’t”

“No The next two fights, again, the odds were not in her favor, and a lot of ed hands”

“You think this was a deal gone bad?” Drago knew about fixing fights where the people in the ring didn’t have a clue about the outco tiuarantee defeat If this was the case, then Belle’s father had to have known