Chapter Ninty-Two

Listening to the silence in his office, Rome kept his eyes shut, feeling a sense of hopelessness drowning him deeper into his emotions.

"I thought I had all the cards in my hands, how did I play the game so wrong and lose it all?" Rome mumbled beneath his breath.

"Axel had the element of surprise. You had nothing, and you were fighting visionless. You didn't lose. He cheated." K said, clutching his fist so tightly that the veins on the back of his hands popped.

Keeping silent, Rome tried to find some sense of comfort in those words. But his mind wouldn't let him feel like all this could have been avoided if he had played his cards right, and now, he was about to lose the fight.

Suddenly, his ringtone disturbed the p