Page 87 of Blinded By Love

Is he?

Does he not like me like I thought he did?

This must have been a mistake to him then, like the kiss was.

“Stop getting in your head,” Hayden says while holding my jaw to make me look at him. “I’m a fuck up. I will mess up. It’s bound to happen but I promise I will be good for you and not break your heart.”

“Okay,” I say before Hayden leans in again and kisses me until I’m begging him to give me air.

“Just promise me, you’ll stay.”

And like a fool who has fallen, I say, “I will.”

Forty-Two

Hayden

“What did I say, Hayden?”

My eyes lift from my hand and look at Marco who is sitting across from me in his chair. He looks pissed but I don’t care. I don’t feel the need to give him a reaction of any sort because although he is threatening Jaclyn, it doesn’t stop me from wanting her.

And I always get what I want.

I have a fight today and Marco is threatening my earnings from the fight as if I give any shit about that.

Eric saw me with Jaclyn and watching her while she works and him being a little bitch he is, he goes in and tells Marco.

“I know what you said, Marco, but I don’t care.”

“So you want me to take her then? Is that it?”

My hands in my lap form a fist and I squeeze my hands so tight together to the point where the pressure is overwhelming but I ignore it because I’m too focused on the fact that he’s threatening Jaclyn. He’s threatening what’s mine, and for that he will pay.

Ever since my birthday, things between us have been different. She is more comfortable with me and sometimes she goes out of her way to touch my chest or arms which makes blood pump in my veins. She still blushes whenever I touch her or compliment her.

Things are going slow between us and I don’t want to pressure her into anything so I’ll go however slow I need to go with her.

“How about a deal Marco? You love deals don’t you?” I raise an eyebrow at him.

Marco squints his eyes at me as if trying to figure me out. “What could I possibly want from you, Hayden? You are just a fighter who earns me money, nothing more.”

“A fight between Eric and I,” I say and I see Marco’s eyes change from threatening to excitement and interest. “You want the fight, Eric wants the fight, and hell even your best customers want the fight.”

I’ve been thinking about this since I started getting closer to Jaclyn. I’m not letting her go now that I have her, but having her brings consequences that I need to get rid of before they actually happen.

Marco could never refuse the fight of the year for this club. He’ll bring in so much money that he could fucking build a house with it.

“And what do you get out of this?”

I stand up from the chair and rest my hands on the desk to look down at him. “You don’t touch her. You stay away from her.”

Marco’s jaw ticks. “Why is this girl so important to you?”

My jaw clenches and I remove my hands from his desk. “I should be asking you that. I mean she is just a random girl to you.” I raise an eyebrow at him.

“Don’t worry about it. That’s my business.”

“Yes but you are never this serious about girls that the others bring in. Or even girls I used to bring in when I first joined. So why Jaclyn?”

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