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Chapter Fifty-Three: Finding Nemo
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FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Sixty-Six : Back for more
DrentI stood up before I had even made the conscious decision to stand.Marcus. Here. In this room, in this building, in this city, standing in that doorway like he had simply stepped out for a while and was now returning to collect what he had left behind. Like no time had passed. Like I hadn't spent years making sure I was so far ahead of him that the gap between us couldn't be closed.My father rose from his seat on the other side of the table, and the smile that crossed his face was one I hadn't seen directed at me in longer than I cared to remember."Marcus," he said, warm, open, the kind of welcome that filled a room. He crossed to him with his arms out and embraced him like a man greeting the son he had been waiting for.I stood there and watched it and said nothing.Marcus returned the embrace and then looked over my father's shoulder directly at me. That smile was still there. Comfortable. Unbothered. The smile of someone who had spent a great deal of time preparing for this
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Sixty-Five: Unexpected Return
DrentWhere was Javier when you needed him? He should have noticed my ear chip was out long ago. He should have known something was wrong and sent backup by now.But I was still sitting there, still tied up, still hoping for Javier to burst through the door and rescue me and Renata's sick mother.I hadn't expected it to go this way. I had expected an easy extraction, but I guess Javier was right. Maybe I should have involved the police.My hands struggled against the ropes but they didn't come loose. Until finally Theodore walked in with a sick smile on his face. The kind of smile that showed satisfaction, like he had just caught his greatest enemy.I looked up. My expression didn't show fear or panic. The same dominant, fearless look stayed etched on my face, because I wasn't scared of him."You," I gritted.He walked in slowly."I can't believe I have the great and popular Drent Ardent in my home. What a dream come true." The sarcasm dripped from his voice."Your home. I should have
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Sixty-Four: The Weight of It
FinnI stood outside the door after I hung up the call, staring at the phone in my hand like it had done something wrong.Renata's voice was still in my ear. The fear in it, the way she had said *please don't hurt them* like she already knew the kind of people we were. Like she had accepted it. I slid the phone into my pocket and leaned against the cold wall, exhaling through my nose.I didn't want to do this.That was the thing nobody asked me. Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to be here, standing in a rotting building with a tied-up man in the back room and a sick woman barely breathing two doors down. Nobody asked if this felt right, or if this sat well with me at night. My father just pointed, and I moved, because that was what I had always done.But lately, something had been shifting.It started with the things Renata had been saying. The things that had been getting back to me, since when i tried to get her expelled from school. She had been talking, and the more I listened, th
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Sixty-Three: With a Smile
DrentJavier spoke in my ear, giving me directions as I eased into the place they would have possibly kept Renata's mom. I arrived at the building. It was a quarters that looked like the kind of place you would never expect kidnapped victims, but there was a high chance things were even worse behind those walls.I smiled slightly. It was perfect. My mind might have seen the obvious red flags and called this dangerous, but Renata and I had already bargained. She was already on her way to stop Payton. I needed to keep my own word and rescue her precious mother.I looked sideways, preparing to go in, as I tapped the little chip on my ear. The chip Javier used to communicate with me and relay pending directions."Bro, I'm in," I said, holding the chip and looking sideways."I think you should tie that loosened hair of yours, bro, because the men I'm seeing behind this wall are going to require your full punching skills.""Don't worry about that. I have like ten men on the ground backing m
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Sixty Two: Maybe kicking the bucket
PaytonFour hours laterI had the tape and I had a plan and tonight was the night everything finally fell into place.I checked my reflection in the lift doors as they climbed. Hair perfect. Expression composed. The small USB drive was in my clutch and I had played out this moment so many times in my head that walking through it in real life almost felt like a formality. Mr. Cole would see the tape. He would see exactly what kind of man his son was, engaging in a fake relationship just to get the company, making emotional decisions that had no place in the world Drent had been raised to inherit. And then everything would shift.It was already shifting. I just needed to be the one holding it when it did.The lift opened and I crossed the lobby towards the private dining suite the secretary had mentioned when I called ahead. A woman at a small desk near the entrance looked up as I approached."Miss Payton, Mr. Cole is currently with a guest. He asked that you wait in the""He'll want to
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Sixty One: Mission 102
DrentI was mid-sentence when my phone lit up.The boys were talking loudly around me, someone had just said something worth laughing at, and I would have laughed if the name on the screen hadn't stopped everything cold.Payton.I stepped away from the table and answered."Drent." Her voice was breathless. Afraid. The performance was immaculate, I had to give her that. "Drent, please, you have to come. These men, they came into the room and they have Renata and I think they're going to hurt her, I don't know what to do""Payton." I said her name once, quietly, and she stopped. "Listen to me very carefully. If you have done anything to Renata, if a single hair on her head has been touched, I promise you that you will regret it."A pause. Then her voice shifted, just slightly. Enough to let the mask slip for exactly one second. "Then you better hurry."She hung up.I was already moving.I told the boys something had come up and I didn't stop to explain. Javier caught my eye on the way o
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Fifty-six : In a pickle
Drent"Drent,"her tiny voice called out as she squinted her eyes like she was trying to see if it was really me. "Is that you?"I walked closer to her as she lay there drunk. Renata had become easier to find and I was lucky I had found her. She had been kidnapped.I looked around the bar and the gu
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Fifty-Five: Nowhere to Go
RenataMy mother woke up before they took me away.I heard her before I saw her, a small confused sound from the chair beside me, the sound of someone surfacing from a very long sleep and not yet understanding the room they were in. I turned as far as the ropes would allow and watched her eyes open
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Fifty-Four: The Price of Revenge
RenataI stared at them and the shock hit me before the fear did.Theodore. And Finn.Of all the people I had run through in my mind during those first terrified seconds of waking up tied in that chair, these two had not even made the list. The last time I had seen them was in Drent's hotel room, b
FAKE DATING THE HOTTEST BOXER Chapter Fifty-Two: Before He Gets Here
PaytonI played it again.The third time. Maybe the fourth. I had lost count somewhere between the first listen and now, sitting cross-legged on the hotel bed with my phone in both hands and the volume low enough that only I could hear it.Renata's voice came through the speaker, soft and slightly
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