Mercer’s words came back to me.
Know when you’re being baited.
Fine.
I could wait.
Bryce’s mouth twitched when I didn’t take it.
“Good girl.”
Oh.
He didn’t. He f*****g didn’t,
Cami slammed so hard against the inside of my control that my vision flashed brighter for half a second. ‘He f*****g did’
I swallowed the growl burning in my throat and smiled instead.
“Careful, Callahan.”
“About what?”
“You’re running out of chances to impress me.”
His face tightened.
There.
That got him.
He attacked harder, throwing a jab, then a hook that skimmed past my cheek when I leaned away. I answered with a short punch to his side, but he absorbed it and kept coming.
Then someone crashed into the ropes just outside our ring.
The whole frame shuddered.
Mercer turned toward the noise.
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