BLAZING IN INK (BOOK THREE)

B1/C4

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Ripley

A few days later, Jim let me have the night off from training but I still found myself sitting on a bench watching my competition fight. I was at the Blood Lake Arena watching, learning how these three guys worked around the ring. How hard they punch, how hard they kicked. I needed to know, to know how badly I needed to not injure myself but most importantly stay alive in that ring. The guys had killed in the ring before.

They were brutal in their way.

They would tear you apart if they could.

"Do you think you can win against them?" I heard someone next to me and when I saw who it was I rolled my eyes.

"What are you doing here King?" I asked when I turned back to the fight.

"Oh, you know, gambling away," he says with a smirk on his face, I rolled my eyes. "You never answered my question, sweetheart"

"Didn't know that I had to?" I told him, I sighed when the announcer claimed that Slayer was the winner. Slayer was one of the guys that I had to verse in a wretched as Slayer threw his hands into the air as the crowd cheered his name, our eyes met through the crowd and a smirk appeared on his face before he left the ring.

"You should watch how you speak with people, you know" I heard King say.

"So I've been told," I said as he chuckles.

"When are you going to let me take you out?" King asked jokingly, King was the president of the Reckless Diablo's. I had met him when I first moved here, he was Jim's son. King was a few years older than me but had always picked on me until I kicked his ass at a fight, you see King used to be a fighter too until someone broke his arm badly and truth be told he was scared to step back into that ring. So he joined the Reckless Diablo's and worked his way up to being president of the club.

"How about when hell freezes over?" I flashed him a smile before turning back to the ring when the announcer called out the next fighters. "Are you coming over for dinner tomorrow night?" I asked him just after the bell rang to start the fight.

"Yeah, tell pop I have some club shit to do and then I'll be there."

"Will do"

"How are you getting home?" He asked me.

"I'll catch the bus home," I told him but he shook his head no. My car had been playing up all week and wouldn't start, so I had to take it into the local garage to see what was going on.

"Not around here you aren't, I'll take you home"

"Are you sure you don't want to take home a pretty girl?" I said nodding my head towards the girls that were walking around with barely any clothing on.

"I can get that whenever I just want to make sure your home safe." He flashed me a smile, making me roll my eyes.

A few hours later, we were heading out of the arena. All night I had kept to myself as King mostly spoke with the club members that had come with him tonight. My mind was going through all different techniques to win against the guys that I had verse soon. I didn't realise I was in my own little world until I bumped into someone.

"Well well well, look who we have here?" I snapped my eyes up to see Slayer standing there, I stepped back away from him and the two other guys that were hanging with him. "Did you enjoy the fight sweetheart?" He asked with a smirk on his face.

"What the sloppy little wrestling stunt? Oh yeah it was great" I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes.

"You think you could do better?" Slayer asked stepping closer to me but when I heard King call my name and I started to walk off but I heard Slayer start speaking again. "You're not going to win. We will break you just like Bone Crusher ended King's career." He chuckles along with his friends. I stopped in my tracks and turned around to face Slayer and his boys, I glared at him.

"You think you can beat me? I can do circles around you and you wouldn't even know what hit you" I said getting in his face.

"What's going on here?" I heard King ask from behind me. Slayer looked over my shoulder and smirked.

"Just telling Ripley here that her career will end just like yours did," Slayer says. My hands clenched into fists but before anyone could stop me I slammed my fist into Slayers nose. King wrapped his arms around me and held me back before I could do anything else.

"You better shut up before I rip your fucking tongue out!" I growled at Slayer as he held his nose. I saw the red blood drip down his hands.

"Calm down," King tells me in my ear.

"You're a fucking bitch!" Slayer growls out.

King pulls me away into Breaker, his VP's arms. "Take her to the bikes!" He growls before Breaker carries me over his shoulder towards the motorcycles.

"Take me back! I need to kick his ass" I yelled trying to get out of Breaker's arms.

"Ripley calm down. King's is handling it" Breaker tells me. I could overhear King telling Slayer and his boys to stay away from me but Slayer just held a glare and when King started to walk away Slayer yelled out.

"Ripley, you better watch your fucking back!"

When King and the rest of the guys from the club came over, he growled out "Get on the fucking bike, Ripley" I climbed on the bike and waited for King to climb on before we left. About 20 minutes later, King and the guys pulled up to the gym. I climbed off the back of King's bike before I threw King the helmet. "Watch it!"

"I had it handled, I didn't need you to pull me away" I snapped at him.

"Yes, you fucking did. If I wasn't there tonight to stop you, you would probably be lying on the ground dying from that asshole" King told me as he climbed off his bike and walking right up to me. "So let me ask you the same question I asked earlier. Do you think you can win against them?"

I glared at him as he glared back, I gave him a nod of my head. "I can't hear you" he growls.

"Yes I can win against them"

"You fucking better" he snarled "otherwise they will make your life hell" I sighed and nodded my head. I knew it, everyone knew it. This fight meant big bucks, something like this doesn't come around often so it was important to win a fight like this. I just had to be the winner.

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