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going on.”
    Cole bumped her in the arm. “I’ll text you and tell you what the plan is.”
    Giggling, Bree reached down to grab her gym bag. “I guess we’ll see you both then. Make sure it’s something fun.” Turning on her heel, she started to walk off, but I had one last request.
    “Bree,” I called out.
    She circled around. “Yeah?”
    “Don’t tell her I’m going to be there, okay? I’m pretty sure she’d bail if she knew.”
    “Tyler, I’m not stupid,” she exclaimed. “And believe me, she’d get out of it. Kacey is one of the most determined girls I’ve ever met. I hope you know what you’re getting in to. She deserves a good guy.”
    Unlucky for her, I wasn’t a good guy.
    “If you call me tonight maybe we can come up with a plan to break the ice before then. I have some ideas to get her warmed up.”
    “Sounds good,” I replied. “I’ll get your number from Cole.”
    Smiling one last time, she turned on her heel and stalked off. Cole didn’t say another word until she walked out of the building. “Okay, Rushing, what’s your end game? I’ve never seen you put out this kind of effort to get a piece of ass, not even for Gabriella.”
    Obviously, Kacey was going to make me work for it. “I don’t know. There’s something about her that’s different. Maybe it’s the outright loathing she has for fighters that turns me on. There’s just something about her that’s unattainable, and you know how much I like that.”
    Chuckling, Cole slapped me on the back. “Yeah, we all want the ones we can’t have. If you want to work at it, by all means, go ahead. Just don’t fuck with this one like you do the others. I actually like Bree, if you mess with her best friend she’s going to hate me by association. Don’t ruin this for me, bro.”
    “Wow, you must have it bad for her,” I joked.
    Cole shrugged and took a sip of water out of his bottle. “What can I say? She’s the first girl who actually seems interested in who I am and not what I do. You know how that is. Other than Gabriella, when was the last time you could say you met a girl who wanted you for you?”
    “Never,” I admitted honestly. Sadly, it was the truth. It was always the same type of girls sniffing around. They either wanted to fuck me or get recognition.
    “And that right there, is why I want someone like Bree.”
    Maybe it was the same reason I had the desire to go after Kacey. She had an innocence about her—something pure. I’d never seen it in any female I’d been with, not even Gabriella. Someone like her had always been unreachable, unattainable.
    Do I really want to taint her innocence with the shit I bring to the table?
    “You know what they say, Tyler . . . it’s not worth it, unless you have to fight for it. We might have done some stupid shit in our lives, but there comes a time when all of that must come to an end. My time is now. You just need to decide when it’ll be yours.”
    With a sly grin, he punched me in the shoulder and chuckled all the way down to the practice ring. “And if you call Bree tonight, you better not hit on her. I’ll seriously kick your ass if you do.”
    “Like you could,” I challenged. “I seem to remember every time we get in the ring it’s your ass that meets the mat.”
    Cole jumped in the ring and bounced on his feet, practicing his jabs. “That may be so, dickhead, but if you fuck with my girl, you fuck with me. One of these days, you’ll know how it feels to be on this end.”
    Maybe one day I would, but right now I had a challenge to face. Kacey wasn’t going to make it easy on me. If it was a fight she wanted, she’d better be prepared to lose. I loved a good challenge.
    And so it begins.

 
     
    “KACEY, WHAT’S WRONG with you?” Bree rushed out of the gym.
    I felt like an idiot waiting by her car, but I really needed to get out of there. “I’m so sorry,” I apologized. “I didn’t mean to leave you in there, but it felt like I was having a