Page 13 of Blinded By Love

Hayden’s eyes are on me, even as the fight coordinator yells, “Your winner, Hayden Night everyone!”

Six

Hayden

“What was with that first punch to the face?” Kayden asks as I pull a hoodie over my head.

He’s been nagging at me since I got in the dressing room. Kayden likes to think he has control over me because he doesn’t have control over his own life sometimes. He would make his ghost girlfriend control every movement and decision.

Sure, I make mistakes every now and then. It’s human, but I always get the first punch in.

But I had to look in the crowd at the girl with brown hair and sad eyes. “I got distracted. Happens to the best of us. You should know that.” I look at Kayden with a knowing look.

A few months ago, Kayden almost crashed his car while racing because he got a vision of his ghost girlfriend who haunts his dreams at night. He doesn’t like to talk about her but I see him writing in a notebook every once in a while. He told me about her when he almost crashed his car. That was the first time he really opened up since I met him.

“Are you going to throw that in my face every chance you get?”

I pocket my phone and stand up from the couch. “Well you are giving me a hard time.”

“You don’t get distracted. You always throw the first punch. Was it because of that new girl?” Kayden raises an eyebrow at me.

My gaze darkens, not at him but the thought of her. I don’t know why I feel this need to hurt her. The night when I was seventeen, I saw something in her. She had this fire that I wanted to ignite.

“No.”

“Your eyes say something else.”

“What is she even doing here? Is she following us like a creep or something?”

“No. She is Natalia’s new friend. I’m thinking that she’s here to stay.”

“We’ll see about that.”

After that little moment we had in the hallway, I had to admit, I smiled. She is still the same girl from that alleyway. She still has that fire in her eyes and attitude that makes me want to tie her down and make her scream.

But her saying she can ruin my mentality, that surprised me. Most girls throw the sexual assault thing but this girl went a totally different route.

I was fucking starstruck because she has this darkness that calls to mine.

Kayden and I leave the room after Marco’s men pay me for the fight.

Marco is the owner of this club and he also just happens to be my boss who makes me do his dirty work so his hands don’t get messy.

Kayden leads us towards the table Chris reserved for tonight. He told me that I would probably be hungry after the fight but knowing Natalia, she is the one who gets hungry after watching a brutal bloody fight.

We walk closer towards the group and Natalia smiles when she sees me. She runs towards me and wraps her arms around my neck.

“You did so good!” she says, but I pay no attention to her because I see that girl standing next to Max staring at me.

Jaclyn’s her name.

Jaclyn King.

I still remember her name, it’s hard to forget since it’s engraved in my mind.

I don’t know why this girl ended up being stuck in my head after that moment in the alleyway, but I just couldn’t get rid of her.

Jaclyn is wearing a black dress that goes down to her mid thighs. She has thighs that were made to wrap around any guy's waist. She has a body made from the devil but eyes that were made by an angel of God. I force my eyes away from her long legs and instead my gaze goes to a little patch on her arm. It makes me wonder what it is and what it does for her.

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