Luciano POV The ring was already alive when I got there.The fighters will soon be there too, flexing muscles and showing off to the crowd.One of them will end up proving something, and the other will lose everything. That is how a duel ends.I stepped in, my eyes adjusting quickly to the harsh lights hanging over the fighting pit. The crowd pressed close around it, voices rising and falling like waves.And then I saw Elena.She stood a little away from the crowd, like she didn’t need to push to belong there. She was putting on shorts, ankle boots, and a loose top that did nothing to hide her cleavages. A hat sat low on her head, casting a shadow over her eyes, and a cigarette burned slowly between her fingers.She was looking calm and unbothered. Even worse, dangerous in a quiet way.Her eyes found me almost immediately.A smile spread across her lips, warm, easy, like we were meeting for something normal.I didn’t trust it.I walked up to her anyway.“You came,” she said, her voic
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