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02:20He uses my full name when somebody's about to bleed. Usually me.
02:24Three days ago, I wouldn't hand Chloe my water bottle at the gym.
02:27He threw me in the sparing ring and let two middleweights take turns on me until I couldn't stand up.
02:32So I turn around. I walk into Nina's room.
02:34I unclasp the cross from her neck while she sleeps and put it around Chloe's.
02:38Looks good on you.
02:39His mouth curls. He pulls Chloe against his chest.
02:43See, baby? Best trained dog on my whole roster.
02:49Selina, you keep her happy. Maybe I'll think about that ring I owe you.
02:56Chloe rips the cross off and slams it on the marble. The chain snaps.
03:01Damon! You promised it was just gonna be me!
03:07Baby. Baby, come here.
03:09The tears come on cue. He breaks. He shoves past me, scoops her up and carries her down the hall.
03:15I drop to my knees. The broken chain slices my palm open while I'm grabbing at the pieces.
03:19Blood everywhere. The boys in the hallway watch me bleed and laugh.
03:23Honestly, it's funny. Last month I went five rounds in a deathmatch for him.
03:28Came back with a fractured eye socket and internal bleeding.
03:31He walked into the recovery room, looked me over, and said,
03:35Christ, Wraith. You're slipping. Whatever. Chloe's been needing somebody to do her head.
03:41I close my fist around the silver.
03:42That night Nina sees the broken cross. She sobs until she throws up.
03:46I rock her in my lap and lie to her again.
03:49Hold on, baby. We're almost out. I swear.
03:53The door slams open.
03:57What the hell is all the screaming? Chloe's trying to sleep.
04:00Pack a bag. Both of you. East House. Now.
04:07His boys are already grabbing Nina off the bed. She turns and screams at him.
04:12Damon! You used to be nice to me!
04:15Ah!
04:17He freezes. Everyone freezes.
04:20I clamp my hand over Nina's mouth.
04:22My tears soak into her hair.
04:24I learned a long time ago what talking costs in this house.
04:27I asked him to come home more.
04:29That night he stripped my title in front of the whole roster.
04:31Seven years gone in one sentence.
04:33I told Chloe to stay out of the training cage.
04:36Before I finished the sentence, his pistol was between my eyes.
04:39He came home with a busted lip last week.
04:41I brought him ice.
04:43He threw the bag in my face.
04:44Don't pretend, Selina's. Chloe's gonna think something's going on.
04:47He's the one who said I love you first.
04:49He's the one who said he was going to marry me.
04:52I let go of Nina.
04:53She's still crying.
04:54Quieter now.
04:55The East House sits on the edge of rival territory.
04:58Half the people who sleep there don't wake up.
05:00I make a call.
05:01I kick the SUU door open and run for the main house.
05:04The second I knock, the noise inside cuts off.
05:06A glass shitters against my forehead.
05:08I bite the inside of my cheek and bow my head.
05:11Miss Vance, I came to apologize for my sister.
05:13She won't bother you again, I swear.
05:16Damon's chest is heaving.
05:17His eyes catch on the blood running down my face.
05:20Cut it out, Selina.
05:21You look like she's the one beating you up.
05:23I don't look at him.
05:24I drop to my knees, press my forehead to the floor.
05:27Once, twice, three times.
05:28She finally lifts a soft little hand.
05:31Damon, I'm tired.
05:33Just say yes already.
05:34He kisses the top of her head.
05:36Baby, you're too sweet.
05:37People are gonna chew you up.
05:38Then his eyes slide to me.
05:40Since you love your sister so much,
05:42walk her there yourself.
05:44No driver.
05:46That night, the temperature drops to 15.
05:47Nina spikes a fever of 104.
05:49I carry her on my back through a blizzard for six hours.
05:52In the ER waiting room, with snow melting off my coat,
05:55I open the notebook.
05:56I write two words.
05:57The cross.
05:57Two left.
06:00The East House is hours from the compound.
06:02Before the sun even comes up,
06:04I have to be back to make Chloe breakfast.
06:06I barely make it through the front gate
06:07before Damon's boys grab me,
06:09tie my wrists,
06:10throw me in the back of an SUV.
06:12When the bag comes off my head,
06:14they dump me on the gym floor.
06:18Damon stands over me,
06:19arms crossed.
06:21He nods at the training cage.
06:24Get in.
06:25Chloe wants to practice.
06:26My head snaps up.
06:28She's never thrown a punch in her life, Damon.
06:30She'll kill me.
06:31Chloe's face falls in half a second.
06:33Damon, baby, what if she's right?
06:35I'm so clumsy.
06:37What if I really hurt her?
06:38Don't be silly, baby.
06:39He pulls her against him
06:40and slides a pair of pink training gloves
06:42onto her tiny hands himself.
06:44You're a natural.
06:45You're going to be the best.
06:46His eyes flick to me.
06:47The patience is gone.
06:48Get in the cage, Selena.
06:49Don't make me say it twice.
06:50I look at the gloves.
06:51Every old break in my body
06:52starts throbbing at once.
06:54He sees me shaking.
06:55He grabs my jaw
06:56and squeezes until my teeth grind.
06:58You don't want to get in?
06:59Fine.
07:00I'll bring Nina down here instead.
07:02She owes me a life too, doesn't she?
07:06Damon doesn't bluff.
07:07One more word out of me
07:08and my ten-year-old sister
07:10gets dragged out of her hospital bed
07:11and tied to that post.
07:14I close my eyes.
07:15I force a smile.
07:20She's a kid.
07:21I'll do it.
07:24I'm bigger anyway.
07:25More fun for her.
07:27He lets go, satisfied.
07:29Turns around and starts adjusting
07:31Chloe's stance from behind,
07:33his hands wrapped around hairs.
07:34The boys haul me into the cage,
07:37tie my wrist to the chain link
07:38above my head.
07:39My toes barely touch the mat.
07:42Damon,
07:42what if I miss?
07:44What if I hit her somewhere bad?
07:45He laughs
07:46and kisses her temple.
07:47Baby,
07:48she's been eating punches
07:49from me for seven years.
07:50She's a punching bag.
07:51Hit her wherever you want.
07:52The first hook
07:53lands on my ribs.
07:54I hear something crack
07:55before I feel it.
07:56My knees give.
07:57The chain catches me
07:58by the wrists.
07:59Out of the corner of my eye,
08:00Chloe is bouncing on her heels,
08:01giggling.
08:02The man who used to put my hands
08:03in ice the second I bled,
08:04he just says one word.
08:05Again.
08:06She winds up,
08:07throws another.
08:07Right hook,
08:08left shoulder.
08:08I feel the joint pop.
08:10My head drops.
08:10Nobody knows what to do.
08:11Damon doesn't even look at them.
08:13He just nods at her.
08:14Good, baby.
08:15Now the body.
08:16Two more.
08:17Left side,
08:17right side.
08:19I'm coughing red onto the mat.
08:20My white shirt
08:21isn't white anymore.
08:23Chloe winds up
08:24for one more.
08:25Damon catches her wrist
08:26mid-swing.
08:27Okay,
08:28that's enough.
08:28Get her stitched up.
08:30Chloe stamps her foot,
08:31pouts.
08:31Damon!
08:32I was just getting good!
08:34He folds in half a second.
08:35He turns to one of his boys.
08:39Bring Nina down.
08:44No!
08:46The word rips out of me
08:47before I can stop it.
08:49No, Damon, please!
08:50She's ten!
08:51She's still sick!
08:52She can't!
08:54He doesn't even look at me.
08:55He boops Chloe on the nose
08:57like I'm not screaming
08:58six feet away.
08:59The last thing I see
09:00before everything goes black
09:02is two of his boys
09:03dragging Nina
09:03across the gym floor.
09:05Bare feet,
09:06hospital gown.
09:07She's twisting against them,
09:09choking on her own crying.
09:10Selena!
09:11Selena, help me!
09:15I open my eyes
09:16in a hospital bed.
09:17Nina!
09:18Nina!
09:19Nina!
09:20I lurch upright
09:21and knock a bowl of soup
09:22out of Damon's hands.
09:23His face goes dark,
09:25but he doesn't snap.
09:27He grabs a tissue
09:28and starts wiping
09:28the broth off my chest.
09:30I grab his wrist
09:31hard enough
09:31to feel the bones.
09:34Where is she?
09:36Tell me.
09:37He looks down.
09:38He doesn't answer.
09:41The stitches in my side
09:42rip open.
09:43I can't breathe
09:44through the pain,
09:44but I drag myself
09:45off the bed anyway
09:46and start for the door.
09:47He catches me,
09:48pulls me against his chest.
09:50His voice is low,
09:51fighting something.
09:53She's in surgery, Selena.
09:55Quit making it worse.
09:56The second she wakes up,
09:58I'll bring you to her.
09:59Just rest.
10:01Please.
10:02For the next two weeks,
10:03Damon gives me
10:04the best medical team
10:05money can buy.
10:05Sometimes he sits
10:06with me myself.
10:07He shows me pictures
10:08of Nina on his phone.
10:09Tubes everywhere.
10:10Tiny chest.
10:11Then he tries to spoon
10:12feed me soup.
10:13I keep my mouth shut.
10:14He doesn't get mad.
10:15He takes a sip himself,
10:16leans in,
10:16and pushes it past
10:17my lips with his own.
10:17I wipe my mouth
10:18and shove the bowl
10:19back at him.
10:19He blinks,
10:20doesn't say a word.
10:21He's been weirdly
10:22patient with me lately
10:23until the day
10:23Chloe comes to visit.
10:25The one who isn't loved
10:26is the real homewrecker.
10:27Suddenly,
10:28heavy footsteps
10:28approach the door.
10:29Chloe seems to realize
10:30something in an instant.
10:31She hurls the bowl
10:32to the floor,
10:33shattering it into pieces,
10:34and throws herself
10:35down onto the ground.
10:36He bursts through the door
10:37and finds her on the floor.
10:45He bursts through the door
10:46and finds her on the floor.
10:47Cheeks flushed pink,
10:48palms sliced up
10:49on broken glass.
10:50His whole body shakes.
10:51The look he turns on me
10:52has nothing soft left in it.
10:54Selina,
10:55have you lost your mind?
10:56He scoops Chloe up
10:57against his chest.
10:58His eyes are bloodshot.
11:00Apologize.
11:01Now.
11:02The old me would already
11:03be on her knees,
11:04but Nina is somewhere
11:05in this building
11:06fighting for her life
11:07because of this woman.
11:08I can't bow to her.
11:09I won't.
11:10I don't move.
11:11His face turns to stone.
11:13Have I been going easy on you?
11:15You think you get
11:15to tell me no now?
11:16I ignore him.
11:18I turn around
11:18and start walking back
11:19to the bed.
11:20His voice cuts the air
11:21behind me.
11:22One more step
11:23and I pull Nina's plug myself.
11:25My foot freezes in midair.
11:26My nails dig through
11:27the hospital gown
11:28into my skin.
11:28These last two weeks,
11:29I almost let myself believe
11:30he felt guilty about Nina.
11:32I was an idiot.
11:33The Damon who used to carry
11:33Nina around on his shoulders,
11:35who taught her how to
11:35throw her first jat.
11:36That man died
11:37the day Chloe Vance
11:37and walked through the door.
11:39I turn around.
11:40I bow at the waist
11:40in front of her.
11:41On your knees.
11:42My legs give out.
11:43I drop.
11:44I press my forehead
11:44to the cold tile.
11:45When I look up,
11:46Damon has Chloe's face
11:47in his hands
11:48and he's kissing her
11:48like I'm not even in the room.
11:56I'm sorry.
11:57I'm sorry.
11:58I'm sorry.
11:59By the time my voice cracks,
12:00they finally come up for air.
12:01He scoffs at me,
12:02scoops Chloe up,
12:03rushes her toward the ER.
12:04The second his back
12:05disappears down the hallway,
12:06the tears come hard,
12:07hot, out of nowhere.
12:07I press a hand
12:08against my chest.
12:09I dig the notebook
12:09out of the drawer.
12:10I write two words.
12:11The cage.
12:13A man's voice behind me.
12:15What are you writing?
12:16I shove the notebook
12:16under the blanket.
12:17Too late.
12:18He saw it.
12:19Dazon scoffs.
12:20Still scribbling
12:20that whiny little diary
12:21of yours?
12:22He brushes past me,
12:23scoops Chloe's broken
12:23bracelet off the floor
12:24and heads for the door.
12:25Oh, tomorrow.
12:26Take Chloe wedding dress shopping.
12:27You've got experience
12:28with that kind of thing.
12:28Help her pick something good.
12:29The way he says it,
12:30casual,
12:30like he's asking me
12:31to grab milk.
12:31I almost laugh.
12:32Three months ago,
12:33I told him I wanted
12:34to try on dresses.
12:35He gave me 12 reasons
12:36why we couldn't.
12:37I don't say anything.
12:38I just nod.
12:39The boutique is all champagne
12:40and giggling girls,
12:41except me.
12:42The sales girls are huddled
12:43by the register whispering.
12:44God, what's her problem?
12:45Looks like somebody died.
12:46Oh, you didn't hear?
12:47That's the side piece.
12:47Real fiance's the blonde.
12:48Shut up.
12:49No way.
12:49Swear to God.
12:50Ew, look at her.
12:51He picked that?
12:54I keep my head down
12:55and slide hangers
12:56along the rack.
12:57Same dresses I looked
12:58at three months ago,
12:59back when I was the one
12:59trying them on,
13:00back when he found
13:01a new excuse every weekend
13:02not to come with me.
13:03Funny how nothing
13:03in this store has changed
13:04and everything else has.
13:05Chloe tries on dress
13:06after dress.
13:07Damon doesn't take
13:08his eyes off her,
13:09runs through every adjective
13:10in the dictionary,
13:11praising her.
13:12She still pouts,
13:12throws the latest gown
13:13on the floor,
13:13looks at me.
13:14Selena, you do it for me.
13:15I'm tired.
13:16Before Damon can stop her,
13:17I grab a dress
13:17and walk into the dressing room.
13:19He freezes.
13:19I zip up the gown.
13:21I pull back the curtain.
13:22The look on his face
13:22flips from anticipation
13:23to disgust in half a second.
13:25The dress is strapless.
13:26My skin is a roaded map.
13:27Bruises layered
13:28on top of my left shoulder,
13:29still seeping pink
13:29through the sarin.
13:30A jagged scar curling
13:31from my lips down to my hip
13:32where I caught a Nina
13:33deathmatch last spring.
13:34The whole boutique
13:34sucks in a breath.
13:35Chloe stumbles back,
13:36slaps both hands
13:37over her mouth.
13:37Damon, oh my god,
13:38what is that?
13:38That's so gross!
13:39Get it away from me!
13:40His face goes black.
13:40What are you standing there for?
13:41Put it back on.
13:42You're embarrassing yourself.
13:43You're embarrassing me.
13:44Strangers stare.
13:45Sales girls stare.
13:46I peel the dress off
13:46in front of all of them.
13:47The fabric drags
13:48across an open stitch.
13:49I bite the inside of my cheek.
13:50I grab a small pink dress
13:51off the children's rack.
13:52Something soft.
13:52Something a little girl
13:53would love.
13:54Forget when Nina wakes up.
13:55She must be so scared.
13:56A laugh behind me.
13:57Mean and high.
13:58Chloe rips the dress
13:58out of my hands.
13:59Aw, you buying this
14:00to bury her in?
14:05What did you just say?
14:06She pulls out her phone.
14:08Starts swiping through
14:09her camera rail real slow.
14:10She went real quiet
14:11after that.
14:12Not as tough as you though.
14:13She was screaming for him,
14:14calling his name,
14:14begging,
14:15and he just didn't even blink.
14:16I get why he loves
14:17the cage so much now.
14:18God, I was shaking.
14:20You're dead.
14:20I'm on her before I think.
14:22My hand wraps around her throat.
14:24I slam her into the wall,
14:25lift her off the floor.
14:26My eyes are red.
14:27My grip keeps tightening.
14:28Somewhere far away,
14:29people are screaming.
14:30Chloe!
14:31A boot slams into my ribs.
14:32I hit the corner.
14:33Damon's gun is between my eyes
14:34before I can blink.
14:35Selena Quinn,
14:35the hell is wrong with you?
14:37She called you ugly
14:38and you want to kill her over it?
14:39I've been way too soft on you.
14:40From this second on,
14:41you so much as look at her wrong,
14:42I swear to God,
14:42you'll never see Nina again.
14:43I shove my forehead
14:44into the barrel.
14:45Then do it.
14:46Pull the trigger, Damon.
14:47Pull it!
14:48His finger twitches.
14:49Just reflex.
14:50He almost does it.
14:51Then he sees the tears
14:51running down my face.
14:52He hosters the gun.
14:53He spits the words at me.
14:55Get back to the compound.
14:56Now.
15:01I waited for him to break my legs.
15:03Beat me half to death.
15:04Something.
15:05He just locks me in the basement.
15:07The boys outside the door
15:08whisper that he's busy.
15:09Picking out flowers.
15:10Tasting cake.
15:11Planning his wedding.
15:12I sit on the cold concrete
15:13with the bag of broken silver
15:14in my lap.
15:15The tears won't stop coming.
15:16After a while,
15:16I start laughing through them.
15:18Damon,
15:18I screwed up.
15:19I should have left
15:20a long time ago.
15:21I should have never
15:21let you save me.
15:22Maybe Nina would still
15:23be alive.
15:24Bang.
15:25The door flies open.
15:26The basement fills
15:27with the smell of perfume
15:28and sex.
15:29I don't even look up.
15:30I just stare at the notebook
15:31in my lap.
15:31Drop the broken little act.
15:33Nobody's watching.
15:34Damon's voice is flat.
15:35He tosses a black
15:35duffel bag at my feet.
15:36He's got a fight
15:37at the docks tomorrow.
15:38You're going in my place.
15:39Chloe says she doesn't
15:40need the paperwork.
15:41Just wants a small ceremony.
15:43Tomorrow's a good day for it.
15:44His boys behind him stiffen.
15:46One of them steps forward.
15:47Boss,
15:48the crew running that fight,
15:49they've got bad blood
15:50with Selene.
15:51Send somebody else.
15:52She's not even healed.
15:53I stand up
15:54before Damon can answer.
15:55I pick up the bag.
15:58I'll go.
15:58His whole body locks up.
16:00His eyes light up.
16:01Hopeful.
16:01He walks towards me.
16:02You come back slow clapping.
16:03Atta girl.
16:04You come back.
16:05We sign the papers.
16:06After everything
16:07we've been through, baby.
16:08Mrs. Pierce was always
16:09going to be you.
16:09You know that.
16:10The next morning,
16:11Damon walks Chloe
16:12down the aisle.
16:13I walk out the front gate
16:15with two dozen
16:15of his fighters behind me.
16:16I never look back.
16:18Damon,
16:18whether I come back
16:19from this in a body bag
16:20or not,
16:21you'll never see my face again.
16:27I'm walking down the aisle
16:28holding a bouquet,
16:29watching Chloe smile
16:30at me through her veil
16:31and something in my chest
16:32is clawing.
16:33Because for one second,
16:34that face isn't hers.
16:35It's Selene's.
16:37Bruised.
16:37Stubborn.
16:38wrecked in that beautiful way
16:39only she ever was.
16:40If she were the one
16:41standing at the end
16:42of this aisle,
16:43would she be smiling
16:43at me like that?
16:44When was the last time
16:45Selene smiled at all?
16:47I stop walking.
16:48In front of 200 guests,
16:49I drop the bouquet
16:50on the floor.
16:51Damon, Damon,
16:52where are you going?
16:52This is our wedding.
16:54I turn back.
16:55My voice goes flat.
16:56Something came up
16:57at the docks.
16:58We'll do this another day.
16:59She catches up
17:00and grabs my arm,
17:01soft and pleading.
17:02But you sent Selene.
17:03She's so good at this stuff.
17:05She'll be fine.
17:06The boys nod along.
17:07I hesitate.
17:09I let her tug me
17:10back to the aisle.
17:11But my chest stays tight.
17:13I trust Selene.
17:15So why does this feel so wrong?
17:18Drop it.
17:19The wedding matters.
17:20I told her if she pulled this off,
17:22I'd marry her for real.
17:23Paper signed.
17:24Mrs. Pierce.
17:26For real this time.
17:27Selene loves me too much
17:29to walk away from that.
17:30She'll be fine.
17:31I let out a breath.
17:32I slide the ring
17:33onto Chloe's finger.
17:36By the time the ceremony ends,
17:38the sun's down.
17:39Not one of the boys
17:40at the docks
17:40is called in.
17:41That bad feeling is back.
17:43I tug at my collar.
17:44Chloe slips into something
17:46black and lacy
17:47and curls around me
17:47like a cat.
17:53I used to want this.
17:55Tonight,
17:56her practice little moves
17:57make my stomach turn.
17:59Selene was always shy with me.
18:01Our first night,
18:02she made me kill the lights.
18:04Said she didn't want me
18:05to see her scars.
18:06Baby,
18:07those aren't scars.
18:08Those are trophies.
18:12She'd taken so many hits for me.
18:14Every time.
18:15No hesitation.
18:16Even when the last one
18:17almost killed her,
18:18I grew up with broken ribs
18:19and bloody knuckles.
18:20Until Selene.
18:21I never believed anybody
18:22on this earth
18:23gave a damn about you
18:24without asking for something back.
18:25I'm thinking about the way
18:26she looked at me
18:27at that bridal shop.
18:28Empty.
18:29Hollow.
18:29The love that used to be
18:30in her eyes,
18:31it wasn't there.
18:32My chest twists.
18:33Chloe pouts up at me.
18:34Baby,
18:35why do you look like that?
18:36It's our wedding night.
18:37You're not still thinking
18:38about that bitch,
18:38are you?
18:39Don't worry.
18:39She's not gonna ruin
18:40tonight for us.
18:41Shut your mouth.
18:43I shove her off me,
18:44grab my coat,
18:45and walk out.
18:47The snow is coming down sideways.
18:49The whole world
18:50is white and quiet.
18:52I end up at the medical wing
18:54without thinking about it.
18:55I push open the door
18:57of a small, quiet room.
18:58Nina, still alive.
19:00Tubes in her nose,
19:01tiny chest rising,
19:02falling.
19:03The breath I've been holding
19:04finally lets go.
19:05As long as I have Nina,
19:07Selene comes home.
19:08She always comes home.
19:10I walk back to the bedroom.
19:13Chloe is on the floor,
19:14sobbing.
19:16I pick her up,
19:17hold her,
19:18pat her back.
19:19Dracinibidae on her eyes.
19:21We go all night.
19:22By morning,
19:23the sheets are wrecked.
19:24Someone is hammering
19:25on the door.
19:27What?
19:27One of my lieutenants
19:28is standing there,
19:29blood pouring from his shoulder.
19:30Boss.
19:31Boss, the docks.
19:32The whole crew we sent.
19:33They're all dead.
19:34By the time we got there,
19:35the place was rubble.
19:35They blew the fuel tanks,
19:36the whole pier.
19:37It's ash.
19:38When I come back to myself,
19:39I'm flooring the gas
19:40through a snowstorm
19:41in just my dress shirt.
19:41I almost run a guy down
19:42at the next intersection.
19:43No way.
19:44I keep saying it under my breath.
19:45No way.
19:46No way.
19:46Selene's been with me for years.
19:47She's walked out of fights
19:48nobody should walk out of
19:49every single time.
19:50This one's no different.
19:50Then I get to the docks
19:51and my legs go out
19:52from under me.
19:53The whole pier is black.
19:54Steel beams melted into puddles.
19:56Pieces of bodies in the wreckage
19:57too small to put a name to.
19:58I swallow.
19:58I start digging,
19:59lifting one scorched fuel drum
20:00after another.
20:01My hands blister open.
20:02Under the last one,
20:03I see it.
20:03A diamond ring,
20:04still catching the light.
20:05The one I slid onto Selene's finger
20:07the night I asked her to marry me.
20:13I don't remember leaving the docks.
20:15Just that it started raining.
20:17Hard.
20:20I get back to the compound
20:21and my body gives out at the door.
20:24When I open my eyes again,
20:26somebody's holding my hand.
20:28Selene.
20:29Selene, baby.
20:29I knew you weren't dead.
20:30I sit up so fast,
20:32my stitches rip.
20:32I crush the woman against my chest.
20:34Damon, it's me.
20:35It's Chloe.
20:38I freeze.
20:39Then I shove her so hard
20:40she hits the wall.
20:41I throw a glass at her head.
20:42Tell her to get the hell out.
20:43She starts wailing.
20:45I don't even look at her.
20:46One nod at my boys
20:47and they drag her out.
20:49I drift through Selene's room
20:50like a ghost.
20:51My eyes lock on the leather notebook
20:53on her pillow.
20:55I open it.
20:56The first page is the handwriting
20:58of an 18-year-old girl.
20:59Damon said if I do
21:00a hundred things for him,
21:01my debt is paid.
21:02But he saved me and my sister.
21:04A hundred isn't enough.
21:05I forgot I ever said that.
21:06It was a joke.
21:07She turned it into a contract.
21:0938 times she saved my life.
21:1162 times she made Chloe smile.
21:12The pages get more crinkly
21:14toward the back
21:15like they were cried on.
21:19I flip to the last page.
21:22My debt is paid.
21:25If I see you again,
21:26I'll look right through you.
21:28I slam the notebook shut.
21:29I can't breathe.
21:31I've stood in front of armies.
21:32I've never panicked like this
21:33in my life.
21:34I pull my pistol
21:35and put a wrestle
21:35through my own bicep.
21:36The pain shocks
21:37the static out of my head.
21:38I tell my boys to find her.
21:40Every man we have.
21:41now they look at each other.
21:43Boss,
21:44you saw the place.
21:45There's no way she made it.
21:46A gun is at his throat
21:47before he finishes the sentence.
21:49My voice doesn't sound like mine.
21:51I say she's alive.
21:52She's alive.
21:54A few hours later,
21:55they come back with two things.
21:57First, forensics.
21:58None of the body fragments
21:59at the docks are Selena's.
22:01Second,
22:01a USB drive.
22:03Every single thing
22:04Chloe has done to her.
22:05Hidden cameras.
22:06Every setup.
22:07Every fake breakbound.
22:08I watch Chloe slap herself
22:09across the face.
22:10Smash a vase.
22:11Damon.
22:12Sit in the broken glass
22:13and start crying
22:14then call my name.
22:15I watch the bridal shop.
22:17I watch her lean into Selena's ear
22:18and whisper something.
22:19That's what made Selena snap.
22:20I crank the volume up.
22:21You think you can control me?
22:22I own you.
22:23When I hear what Chloe said,
22:24I snap the tablet in half.
22:26This bitch.
22:26Her baby sister.
22:27The kid she's raised
22:28since she was barely walking.
22:29Without Nina to protect,
22:30the Selena I know
22:31would have put a bullet
22:32in every one of us months ago.
22:33Of course she finally broke.
22:34I'm breathing too fast.
22:35I throw the tablet
22:36across the room.
22:37I keep seeing her face.
22:38The way she shoved her forehead
22:39onto my gun barrel
22:40and screamed at me
22:40to pull the trigger.
22:41I know that look.
22:42We've been in too many fights together.
22:43I'd know it anywhere.
22:45She wasn't bluffing.
22:46She wanted to die
22:47and she wanted to take me down with her.
22:49This snake.
22:50She rode on a few months
22:51of my attention
22:52and destroyed my wife.
22:53My grip tightens.
22:54I tell my boys to bring Chloe in.
22:56She scoops into the room
22:57like a teenage girl in love
22:58lifting the hem of her dress.
22:59Hi baby.
23:00What's up?
23:01I actually have great news for-
23:02Her sentence dies.
23:03The barrel of my gun
23:04is between her eyes.
23:04She drops to her knees
23:05so fast the dress tears.
23:07Tears flooding her face.
23:08Damon, what are you doing?
23:09You know I'm scared of guns.
23:10I grab her throat
23:11with my free hand
23:12and lift her clean off the floor.
23:13Scared of guns?
23:14I told you.
23:15I told you not to play
23:16too rough with Nina.
23:16I came home
23:17and that little girl
23:17was barely breathing on the floor.
23:18Sounds to me like
23:19you love guns plenty.
23:19Want one?
23:20Here.
23:20I load a single round
23:21into the cylinder.
23:21Hold it against your head.
23:22Six caverns, one bullet.
23:23Have fun, baby.
23:24She loses it.
23:24Drops and grabs at my can't's leg.
23:26Damon, Damon, I'm pregnant.
23:27For the baby, please.
23:28Every man in the room flinches.
23:29I don't.
23:30I pull the trigger myself.
23:31Empty.
23:31She slaps her hands over her ears.
23:33A puddle spreads under her dress.
23:34I pull it again.
23:35Empty.
23:36Again.
23:36Empty.
23:37The last round misses too.
23:39She's already Miss Berking on the floor.
23:42I look down at the blood
23:43between her legs
23:43and feel nothing.
23:44I pick this
23:45over Selene.
23:46I think about Selene.
23:48The week the syndicate grabbed her,
23:49locked her in a basement
23:50and worked her over
23:50until her ribs were powder.
23:52She didn't give up a single name.
23:53I think about her
23:54and the gun gets heavy in my hand.
23:55The tears come.
23:56A gun is pressed to my temple.
23:58Ryder,
23:59if you're gonna kill me,
24:00get it over with.
24:00The barrel slides off my temple,
24:02drags down across my cheekbone,
24:04settles on my bottom lip.
24:05He smiles.
24:06Slow.
24:06Moongleam.
24:07A few months gone
24:08and you've still got that mouth on you.
24:09Lucky for you,
24:10that's my favorite thing about you.
24:11He flips the gun back into its holster,
24:13drops onto the couch,
24:14looks me up and down
24:15like he's got nowhere else to be.
24:17His eyes track from my collar back
24:18down to my stomach.
24:19the scars,
24:20the fresh ones.
24:21His face goes darker every inch.
24:23Should have kept you the first time.
24:24You weren't this beat up before.
24:25I look down at the wound on my abdomen,
24:26the one Damon gave me.
24:28My throat tightens.
24:30Ryder,
24:31I'm done running.
24:33Take me in.
24:35Please.
24:38He stopped smiling.
24:42Then he laughs out loud.
24:44Wide.
24:45Easy.
24:47The crimson serpents in the cage
24:49have been at each other's throats for years.
24:51Half the guys in this gym
24:52have eaten my fists at one point.
24:55They take a step back
24:56every time I walk through the door.
24:58Inside a month,
24:59I'm Riker's number two.
25:00The boys nod when I walk in.
25:02Even Riker treats me
25:03like I'm worth listening to.
25:06Then comes the day
25:07I take my guys out
25:07to clean up a fight
25:08and I see him.
25:10Where is she?
25:11Where the hell did you put her?
25:15Let go.
25:18Selene, you're alive.
25:19Why didn't you come home?
25:20Do you have any idea
25:20what you did to me?
25:21Every second you were gone,
25:22I was dying.
25:22My stomach turns.
25:24Memories slam back in.
25:25I shove him off so hard
25:26he stumbles.
25:26He won't let go of my wrist.
25:28Come back.
25:28Please.
25:29Come home.
25:29You're my number one.
25:30You're my wife.
25:33I laugh in his face.
25:34Rip my arm loose.
25:36I'm crimson serpents number two now.
25:38And as for wife,
25:39your wife is named Chloe Vanser.
25:42Pain flashes across his eyes.
25:46I kicked her out.
25:48I had no idea what she really was.
25:50I swear.
25:50I make a small, bored sound.
25:53I look down at the gun in my hand.
25:56And Nina,
25:58don't you want her back?
26:00She's awake.
26:01She's awake, Selene.
26:03The gun comes up
26:04before I think about it.
26:06The muzzle hits his sternum
26:07right over the heart.
26:11You don't get to say her name.
26:14No.
26:15Don't.
26:16I begged you.
26:18I begged you
26:19not to touch her.
26:21And the second I was out,
26:23you put her on the ground.
26:26She worshipped you, Damon.
26:29No.
26:29Selene, listen.
26:30Nina's not dead.
26:32Chloe lied.
26:33Chloe did it.
26:33I made her pay.
26:35I don't even blink.
26:37He's lied to me too many times.
26:38I take one step back.
26:40I pull the trigger
26:42right through his kneecap.
26:44I holster the gun.
26:45I walk past him without looking back.
26:48Next time,
26:49it won't be the knee.
26:51I don't have to see his face
26:52to know he's broken.
26:54Back at the gym,
26:55Riker is on the couch
26:56with his feet up,
26:57watching me with a grin.
26:58He already knows.
27:00I drop the case file
27:01on the table
27:03and walk out
27:04without a word.
27:07I climb the hill
27:08behind the property.
27:09There's a small grave up there.
27:11I dug it myself.
27:13I bury the broken
27:14silver cross
27:15in the dirt.
27:19Selene.
27:20The crying stops.
27:23There's a girl
27:24in a wheelchair
27:25at the top of the hill.
27:26Most of her face
27:27is wrapped in gauze,
27:29most of her body too.
27:30But I'd know her anywhere.
27:35Nina.
27:37Damon stands behind the chair,
27:39watching me drop to my knees
27:40and pull my baby sister
27:41against me.
27:42See?
27:43I can read it on him.
27:44Nina's alive.
27:45Now Selene comes home.
27:46He's wrong.
27:47I stand up.
27:48I plant a boot in his chest
27:49and send him flying
27:50onto his back.
27:51The wound under his shirt
27:52rips open.
27:53Grass turns red.
27:54I drag Damon up
27:56by his collar.
27:56I crack his ribs
27:57with one elbow.
27:58I drive the other
27:59into his temple.
28:00I knee him in the spine
28:02until something gives.
28:03I boot him in the gut
28:04until he's coughing red
28:05onto the grass.
28:06Same four places.
28:08Same depths.
28:10Do you really hate me
28:11that much?
28:13You'd rather follow
28:14my worst enemy
28:15than come home?
28:16I'm the one
28:17who saved you.
28:19Damon.
28:20My debt was paid
28:21a long time ago.
28:24Sometimes I wish
28:25you'd never saved me.
28:27I might have had
28:28a real life.
28:30Anywhere on earth
28:31would have been better
28:32than next to you.
28:37they tell me later
28:38that Damon was on the table
28:39for three days
28:39before he stabilized.
28:40One of his old fighters
28:41slips through Crimson Serpent's
28:42perimeter alone
28:43to get to me.
28:44One of the boys
28:44who used to be loyal to me.
28:46He says the day
28:46I went down at the cage
28:47Damon panicked
28:48and followed the medics out.
28:49While he was gone
28:49Chloe walked into Nina's room
28:50and I feel nothing
28:51so it wasn't him.
28:52So what?
28:52The second Damon said
28:53bring Nina down here
28:54every drop of her blood
28:55went on his name.
28:56The man waits for me
28:57to say something else.
28:58I don't.
28:59I look at him.
29:00I figure that's the end of it.
29:01The next morning
29:02Damon is at my front gate
29:04holding a box.
29:05Inside is my old leather notebook
29:06the last page torn out clear
29:08and a brand new one.
29:09The first page reads
29:10Let me do a hundred things for you
29:11then forgive me please.
29:12I stare at the page.
29:13The heart I was so sure
29:14had gone numb
29:14starts to ache.
29:16Ah.
29:16Big bad Damon Pierce.
29:18Begging?
29:20Riker materializes behind me
29:21plucks the notebook
29:22out of my hands
29:24smirks.
29:24I think I'm gonna cry.
29:26You're embarrassing yourself Pierce.
29:28Damon goes storic.
29:30His arm shoots out
29:31and pulls me
29:32an inch closer to him.
29:34I rip myself away.
29:35I snatch the notebook back.
29:37I tear it to shreds.
29:39The pieces flutter
29:40onto his face.
29:43Damon.
29:45Why are you writing
29:46this self-pitying garbage?
29:48His own words.
29:49He recognizes them.
29:50The color drains
29:51from his face.
29:53I pull out the old notebook.
29:55I read out loud.
29:56Number 32.
29:57Chloe sprained her ankle.
29:58You sent me out
29:59in a blizzard
29:59with a 104 degree free
30:00to get her painkillers.
30:01Number 56.
30:04Chloe said she was
30:05getting jumped.
30:07You sent me alone
30:08against 40 grown men.
30:10It took the doctors
30:10three days to get me back.
30:13Chloe later admitted
30:14it was a prank.
30:15Number 87.
30:16Chloe wanted some
30:16pink crystal ring
30:17the jeweler refused to sell.
30:18You stripped me down,
30:19pushed me into his bed,
30:20told me to sweet talk
30:21it off him.
30:22Number 100.
30:23So you could marry her,
30:24you sent me out
30:24to die alone.
30:26I read until my voice
30:27gives out,
30:28until my mouth
30:29tastes like blood.
30:31The tears come anyway.
30:33I really thought
30:34I was past this.
30:40Damon's face is the color of ash.
30:42His mouth opens.
30:43Nothing comes out.
30:45We just stare at each other.
30:46I'm about to turn away
30:47when Ryder grabs my shoulder.
30:48He's looking at Damon
30:49like he's already a corpse.
30:51Moonbum,
30:51after all the sick shit
30:52this guy put you through,
30:53you're gonna let him walk?
30:54Crimson serpents
30:55don't raise pussy, sweetheart.
30:56Somebody hits you,
30:57you hit back twice.
30:57He yanks his pistol out
30:58and presses it
30:59under Damon's libs.
31:00Same second,
31:01Damon's gun
31:01is between Ryder's eyes.
31:02She can hurt me
31:03a thousand times.
31:04You,
31:04you don't get to lay
31:05a hand on her.
31:06Ryder laughs out loud.
31:07Christ,
31:08this whole heartbroken puppy
31:09act of yours
31:10is making me sick.
31:11The air locks up.
31:11Two safeties click off.
31:12They both turn.
31:13I'm pointing my gun
31:14at the sky.
31:14Smoke curling off the barrel.
31:15Boss,
31:16he's not worth our time.
31:16We've got somewhere to be.
31:17The word boss
31:17hits Damon like a slap.
31:18He just stares at me.
31:19That one second of distraction
31:20is all Ryder needs.
31:20His gun goes off
31:21right into Damon's chest.
31:22Ryder holsters up,
31:23slings an arm over my shoulders,
31:23walks me out.
31:24I never see Damon's face
31:25again after that.
31:26But things start happening.
31:32already wrecked.
31:33Broken hand,
31:34banded ribs,
31:35mystery concussion
31:36the night before.
31:37Half of them
31:38don't show up at all.
31:39Only one man I've ever known
31:40fights dirty like that.
31:42One night I get jumped
31:43from behind,
31:44tazzied.
31:44I drop.
31:45I fall into a pair
31:46of warm, familiar arms.
31:47When I wake up,
31:48there's a scrap of paper
31:49on the pillow beside me,
31:50one number on it.
31:51I crumple it,
31:52I throw it in the trash.
31:53He thinks he's invisible.
31:54He's everywhere.
31:55Eventually I can't take it anymore.
31:56I stay the hell away from me.
31:58I just want to help.
31:58I just want to keep you safe.
31:59However I can.
32:01I scoff.
32:02I don't want your charity.
32:03I scan the bruises
32:04and old wounds
32:05scattered across his torso.
32:06I curl my lip.
32:07You're disgusting to look at.
32:08He flinches.
32:09He chews his lip.
32:10His voice goes small.
32:11What do you want?
32:12Just tell me.
32:12Anything.
32:13I'll do it.
32:14I tilt my head.
32:15I want a body
32:16that doesn't make people stare.
32:17I want Nina to walk again.
32:18I want you to never show
32:19your face in front of me
32:20as long as I live.
32:21With every word,
32:22the color drains further out of him.
32:23After a long silence,
32:24he knows.
32:24Just once.
32:25After day that,
32:26Damon really does disappear.
32:28We pull every fighter
32:29the serpents have.
32:30We show up to the warehouse.
32:33empty.
32:34We sweep the building.
32:36A hundred yards out
32:37behind the loading deck,
32:38we find them.
32:41All fifty.
32:42Laid out in the dirt.
32:43Every single one of them
32:44out cold.
32:45Jaws hanging wrong.
32:46Broken hands.
32:47The kind of hits
32:48only a man who's been
32:48in a thousand fights
32:49knows how to throw.
32:50I know this work.
32:51My body locks up.
32:52I follow the trail of bodies
32:53to a back room.
32:54Damon,
32:54slumped against the wall.
32:55One hand pressed to a wound
32:57on his stomach
32:57that won't stop bleeding.
32:58Coughing red into the other.
33:00His knuckles are split open
33:01down to the bone.
33:02He took on fifty guys
33:03with his bare hands.
33:04Alone.
33:05He grabs my hand,
33:06drags the words up
33:06through his teeth.
33:07Done.
33:09Forgive me.
33:10Please.
33:11I cut my hand over his eyes.
33:12I close them.
33:16If I forgave you,
33:17every scar I carry
33:18would be for nothing.
33:19Every tear,
33:20wasted.
33:21A year later,
33:22I hang up the gloves.
33:24Ryder wires a large sum
33:25of money into my account.
33:26Mark.
33:27He clamps a hand
33:27on my shoulder.
33:28I'll come find you.
33:29Until then,
33:29take your sister
33:30and live a real life
33:31for yourself,
33:32for once.
33:33I smile.
33:34I nod.
33:35I push the wheelchair
33:36in front of me
33:37and take my little sister
33:38to Paris.
33:39The air smells
33:40like flowers there.
33:42No more cage.
33:43No more blood.

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