My Vegas Groom (The Greene Family #3) - Piper Rayne Page 0,71

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I’ve always loved Vince. He’s a great manager, always has my needs in mind, but after our confrontation about Nikki, I sense his displeasure with me finding someone to share my life with. And if he doesn’t want me happy in all aspects of my life, then I don’t really care for him to be in my life. Which brings the thought of retirement back up. One thing I do know is that I won’t retire unless I’m on top, so if I don’t win this fight, I’ll be going for the title again.

“The fact that you’ve never won a fight when you’ve been in a relationship.”

I roll my eyes. “You know that’s just a coincidence.”

“Still. Every time you’re in a serious relationship, you lose. Case in point, it’s clear to me since I arrived in that nothing of a town that your focus is split. I hope you can turn it around once we’re in Vegas and there aren’t distractions.”

“Watch yourself, Vince.” I shoot him a warning glare, and he looks away.

He’s not normally so vocal about his concerns with me. Then I remember a headline about Dale Campbell signing with someone else. Vince’s eggs are still all in my basket.

Before takeoff, I send one last text

Me: I miss you already. ☹

Three dots appear immediately.

Nikki: I miss you more. <3

I shut the shade, not wanting to see the mountains disappear and turn into desert, and put in my earbuds. My head falls back to my headrest and all I envision is my wife spread out naked on the bed for me. I’m going to have the bluest balls ever by the time she meets me in Vegas. I need to channel all that sexual energy somewhere else, so I pull up Rinaldo’s last fight to study his moves some more and figure out how I’m going to counter them.

I hate it, but Vince is somewhat right—having a wife is a distraction. A welcome distraction, but still, I’m thinking of our relationship a lot, and not one-hundred percent focused on the fight mentally like I normally would be.

Vince puts his tablet up in my face to show me an article that’s just been posted.

Place your bets now… rumor has it, Logan Stone and his new bride have separated already. Finally, all those who believe in the superstition that he’s never won a fight while having a girlfriend can rest assured he’s moving up in the odds in Vegas now that he’s single again.

I roll my eyes. Who would report we broke up? Then I shake my head, not really giving a fuck because they’re wrong. If someone didn’t bet on me because of that stupid superstition, screw them.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

“Your cheeks are flushed, dear, are you feeling okay?”

Nikki

My heart drops out of my chest when I see the article that says Logan and I broke up. It’s fake news. Just like Logan explained when we talked last night, some people will do anything to gain success or money. He’s been gone for a few days now, and I’ve been trying to keep myself busy with work and preparing for my podcast with Gavin Price, but none of it helps. I’m still always thinking of Logan in the back of my mind.

Since we’re very much still together, it isn’t the reported breakup that concerns me. It’s the fact he’s never won a fight while he’s been in a relationship. So I’ll be the reason if he loses? At least as far as the world is concerned? Why didn’t he ever tell me that before?

“I think you’re overreacting,” Mandi says, sliding into the seat across from me at her restaurant attached to her inn. “You’ll prove them wrong when you show up at the fight.”

“I told you to poison their food while they were here,” Chevelle says, crossing her arms and giving Mandi a glare.

“And murder someone?”

“I simply suggested a little digestive trouble. They deserve it for coming here and ambushing Nikki and Logan.”

I close my screen, unable to read it again. The tidbit about him never winning while in a relationship took me down a Google blackhole of Logan’s exes, only to find one I recognize. Melanie from the casino. She’s one of the girls who holds the numbers and struts around the cage. How fucking unoriginal is that? From what I gather, they were involved for at least six months, maybe a year, and he lost every fight during that time. After they broke up, he won again and has been