Page 144 of King of the Cage

I nodded. “Yes.”

“My own,” he breathed, the slightest hint of a question.

“Always.”

EPILOGUE

GIADA

6 Months Later

“Welcome to fight night here at The Blue Rabbit!” The gathered crowd cheered loudly. Raffaelle Navarro was standing in the middle of the octagon in his underground fight club, his grin as wide as a Cheshire cat’s. Of course it was. Tonight’s fight was huge, and bets had been flooding in.

“Look at that, even Mr. Hot Doctor is here tonight,” Sol mused, sipping her drink and peering at Keiran.

“Mr. Hot Doctor?” Quinn questioned the nickname. Bran’s little sister had become my shadow. I didn’t mind. I liked it. I loved it.

“What, you have to admit he’s hot,” Sol protested.

Quinn looked across the room to where Keiran was waiting ringside.

Declan, her appointed bodyguard, cleared his throat beside us, and sent heat leaping up Quinn’s pale, freckled cheeks.

She wrinkled her nose. “Pass. He’s like my brother.”

“More for me, in that case,” Marco sighed, sinking into a seat beside me.

“I don’t think he’s gay,” I told Marco apologetically.

He just shrugged. “That’s only because we’ve never been formally introduced.” Marco tossed his head confidently. “Now, if you bitches would shut up, Daddy’s about to fight, so pipe down.”

“I don’t know how I feel about you calling my husband Daddy,” I muttered to him.

Marco just grinned. “Honey, I just say what everyone’s thinking,” he jerked his head toward the stage.

“Have I missed Bran getting his ass kicked?” a deep, familiar voice asked behind us.

I spun around to see my brother standing there.

I shot up and hugged him, pressing a kiss to either cheek.

“You came?”

“You invited me, and like I said, I can’t pass up a chance to see Bran get punched.”

I pulled Elio down to the seat next to me, as Marco moved along to make space.

“How’s everything at Casa Nera?” I wondered.

Elio stared at the stage a moment, a muscle ticking in his strong jaw. “Fine.”

That one word sounded ominous.

“Really?” I prodded cautiously.

“It will be,” Elio responded, the words sounding final. There had been a lot of changes at Casa Nera, with my brother most of all.

Before I could try and find out more, the music started and the lights lowered, leaving only the stage spotlights on.

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