“Can you believe this guy?” Daisy asked.

“Come on, are you all fucking pussies?” Ryan asked. He pointed out at the crowd. “I dare you. Come and fight me, fuckers!”

No one took to the pedestal.

“Are you all pussies? None of you can take me.”

Tabitha watched as Anthony handed his jacket to Simon and then climbed up onto the pedestal. He wasn’t scheduled to fight but there was no way Ryan could get away with that. Calling on others to fight when there was no real competition.

“Well, well, well, look what I’ve got here with me. None other than a Skull brat. Someone who needs his ass beaten.”

Anthony didn’t even bother removing his shirt or raising his fists. He looked bored.

The bell rang, which meant the fight had been accepted and now it was on.

Ryan raised his fists, and Anthony kept his by his side.

Tabitha tensed as Ryan went to charge him, but he went into the ropes that only just kept him in the ring.

Again, Anthony still hadn’t lifted his hands.

When Ryan came at him a second time, he clocked him around the face, sending Ryan down with a single punch.

There were cheers, but the Dogs, they were pissed. She chanced a look over to see Luke watching her.

Averting her gaze, she saw Ryan get to his feet, shake whatever it was off him, and charge again. This time, Anthony took him. Punch by punch. Ryan got a few in to the stomach, but Anthony blocked most of the face aims.

She winced a few times at the brutality of it but she was long gone past the days of covering her eyes. The shit she’d seen, the stuff she knew, it didn’t make her weak, it made her strong. She was more prepared now than ever before, and she was ready.

Anthony threw the final punch, and this time, Ryan stayed down. Their boy had knocked The Dogs boy clean out.

Miles cheered, whooping in the air. “Suck it, Dogs. That’s how it’s done. That’s our boy.”

Anthony climbed out of the ring, went over to Mitch, grabbed their money, and that was it. They left the Quad. If Ryan hadn’t been knocked out, there would have been a lot more crap to deal with. The Dogs wouldn’t accept this. Ryan would demand a rematch.

“You know you fucked up there,” Daisy said.

Tabitha’s brows rose as Anthony came to a stop.

All of the guys did as Anthony turned to Daisy.

“I did?” he asked.

This was new. Daisy and Anthony were often in each other’s presence but rarely on speaking terms. It wasn’t odd for them. Anthony rarely spoke to anyone.

“Yeah. They’re going to demand a rematch. You’re going to have to go up against Ryan or Luke, or all of them.”

“Oh, come on, our boy will take them all on,” Miles said, clapping his hands in excitement.

“Are you all fucking insane?” Daisy asked. “There’s only so much shit they’re going to take before we have to face the consequences. You were only supposed to watch.”

“We didn’t say that,” Tabitha said. She knew the moment they entered the Quad that the chances of them fighting would be pretty high. It was impossible for them to go somewhere with fighting and avoid it. It was like telling a fucking bee not to suck pollen. That shit wasn’t going to happen.

“Were you worried about me?” Anthony asked.

Daisy stared at him.

Tonight was turning out to be full of surprises. Tabitha wished she could take her phone out to film this precious moment. At the very least, she could send it to Simon. That would give them something to talk about, and it would win her a bet, that said Daisy and Anthony would end up together. Simon didn’t agree with her.

“You could have gotten yourself killed. It’s not funny.” She went to turn her back on him, but Anthony grabbed her arm.

Tabitha waited.

Silence.

Nothing.

Damn, the suspense was killing her.

“You better get home,” Anthony said.

Tabitha kept on watching as Anthony let her go, and she was in shock.

“What the fuck?” she asked, mouthing the words to Anthony, who shrugged and kept on walking with the guys in tow.

She and Daisy headed back to her place. “What the fuck was that?”

“Nothing,” Daisy said.

“Come on, it looked like you guys were eye-fucking each other. That has to mean something.”

“It doesn’t. You need to stop thinking you see stuff that is clearly not there. He could have gotten himself killed. I don’t know about you, but could you imagine Lash over that? Angel would be dead, and Lash, he’d start a war. We all know how this goes. Then all of a sudden, our lives will change forever. I don’t want that to happen.” Daisy shrugged. “Anthony is part of us. We need to look out for each other, which includes him.”

“You’re blind, you know that?”

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