I set Mia on the floor of my bedroom on her playmate. She has toys scattered around. She immediately grabs a plastic rattle and starts chomping on the end of it.
After making sure she’s settled, I start doing some stretches. I’m running on empty tonight, after having been up all night with Beau. I managed to shower and change before Mia roused for breakfast, and now we were here, with Mia wide awake and me chugging down coffee and energy drinks.
But I’m okay. I still have some adrenaline pumping through me from last night – from my intimacy with Beau, from overhearing him and Archer, and even from the fight.
The fight is what I should focus on. I wasn’t lying when I said I wanted to compete in that underground ring someday. But Beau wasn’t lying either. If I want to make it without ge
