Page 59 of Bound by Desire
The door swings open as I make my way up and my father stands there with his armscrossed.
“Where the fuck haveyoubeen?”
Damn, he’s already pissed. Regardless, I need to get throughtohim.
“Jon’s,” I answer, entering the house. The door slamsbehindme.
“See you’re up to your old shit again,” he clips as I turn and face him in the entryway of mychildhoodhome.
I rush, “It’s not that, Dad. I need to talktoyou.”
“Fucking little shit! I can’t believe you!” His voice is so loud the neighbors will be eating this shit up. “Kept your mom up all fuckin’ night, and not a care in the world to what your shit does to her.Ungratefulshit.”
“It’s notwhatyou—”
My father steps forward, getting in my face. “One time you go out, and you’re on that shit again. Knew I shoulda locked your ass down. But your mother wanted to give you a chance. She always wants to give you another chance. She ends up wide awake and worried. Now you’ve fucked it all up. You fucking disgust me!” he roars, and I take astepback.
“Dad …” I try again, but helaughs.
“You’re done. I don’t want to hear shit from you.” The vein in his neck pulses, and he clenches his fists, no doubt wanting to knock some sense in me. But he’s wrong, and he won’t listen. He’s too far gone. Too far pissed offatme.
There is no way he will believe me. I know what I need to do. He’s left me no otherchoice.
What we hadisgone.
Fighting another person is the only way to beat back the anger. Pounding into flesh, hearing the grunts of a man taking my blows, it’s a reminder I’m incontrol.
Being part of that club was what I desired for so many years. Then, when I left, I never thought I’d be tossed back intothefold.
I’m no moron. If I take this job at the garage, I’m in. Also, there’ll be payback for the way I left. There’ll be consequences for all of that. Plus, I’ll have to prove myself repeatedly until they get the me I am now. It seems like a fuck of a lot of work for your family toacceptyou.
I just need to clear my head of everything warring inside of it. Then maybe I’ll be able to findsomecalm.
“Need to.Tonight.”
“You want to talk about it?”sheasks.
“Notnow.”
She turns back toward the window. I can see that I’ve let her down by not talking to her, but I’m just notthere.
The meeting takes all of ten minutes. I tell the man I’ll do the fight for free. The way Rylie sounded, the man was afraid of the club coming into play, but he didn’t have any qualms after the word free came frommylips.
Rylie tapes me up as the crowd goes wild. They don’t know me, but some obviously remember me from the other night. Finebyme.
The guy is about the same size as me, with fire breathing in his eyes. It doesn’t matter, because I don’t see him after the bell goes off. Instead, a red haze fills my vision, and I letloose.
ChapterSixteen
Ican’t help watching,my eyes glued to the cage and not the crowdforonce.
Blow after blow, Deke demonstrates how much power is inside of him. Meanwhile, all his opponent can do is try to fight back, giving Deke a dance that he pummels through, not once missing a beat. By the look in his eye and his cocky smirk, this is exactly what Deke wantsfromhim.
The two men go at it hard. Deke has blood coming from his head and lip, but he doesn’t stop. It’s as if something breaks inside of Deke as he unleashes, and everything before this moment was justforplay.
The power he had before is more now. A lot more. Blow after blow, the man is unable to block. Shots to the temple, and repeat. Deke is like amachine.
The guy falls to the ground hard, hitting his head, but Deke doesn’t stop. His rage continues to burn. It’s not until the “ref” calls it when the other man passes out that Deke pulls away. His breathing is heavy, and it’s sexy asallhell.
