Unleashed (A Bad Boy Stepbrother Romance) (117 page)

I don’t even hear his voice.

All I see is the disbelieving eyes.

What the hell did they think would happen?

That I’d lose?

Impossible.

I had
more
to lose.

I spin around, find Cassie. I can see just fleeting glances of her body as she threads through the crowd. I try to wipe blood from my eyes but it’s all coming out too quickly.

“Come here, boy,” the ref says, and I turn to him. He glues the cut above my eye, then puts a hand out and catches a towel thrown at him by an attendant.

He wipes my face, the blood out of my eyes, then gestures with his head behind me.

I turn around, see Cassie laughing, her eyes red, her hands clasped together in front of her.

“You won!” she says, putting her hands on my chest.

“I told you I would.”

“I helped,” she kids, but she’s right.

“You did,” I tell her.

She gets under my arm, lets me put my weight on her.

I’ve never put my weight on anybody before.

“Let’s get the fuck out of this place before they all riot at the upset,” I say.