Chapter 53

*Chapter 53
'Da Pasquale' Headquarters*

**"Tatiana, hey!" I** turned around and looked at Dimitri making his way to me. I smirked and raised an eyebrow at him, "Dimitri," nodded my head in greeting.

He smirked, "What are you doing here?" I looked around and then said "Oh here? I was going to talk to Silva to see if there is something to do." I looked back at Dimitri and he nodded. I continued "It's been a while since we had something to do." He nodded again.

Then as if he remembered something he raised his forefinger in the air and said, "Actually Silva sent me to talk to you. He has something for you to do." I nodded "Well then since I'm here I can go talk to him."

Feeling excited to finally get something. Things around here were starting to get boring and I'm probably the only living person that would rather get shot in the shoulder then stay at home to watch a movie.

It's been a whole week since the homecoming dance. A whole eight days since Nikolai and I became official. It's also been eight days of quietness at school, which makes me guess Ava is plotting again. Dimitri turned around when the receptionist girl called his name. He pointed to her and I nodded goodbye and we both went our separate ways.

I knocked on the door when I arrived in front of Silva's office. I heard a distant 'come in' and I walked in. Silva was sitting at his desk busy with paperwork. "Silva," He looked up and smiled at me. "That was fast." I chuckled, "Nah; I was already here when Dimitri told me you want to talk to me." Silva mumbled something about the papers then nodded. He absentmindedly pointed to the seat in front of his desk. I sat down and he looked up from the paperwork.

"Yeah, um one of our fighters got hurt badly in a raid yesterday so I wanted to know if you would like to fight tonight in her place." I licked my lip. It's been a while since I last fought; it would be a nice change of scenery. Of course, there was a reason I stopped fighting, but not thinking about it I nodded my head.

"Yeah sure, I wouldn’t mind at all." Silva looked down at his paperwork again while talking, "That's good. You can go to the gym that's here and get ready. The fight is tonight at 8 pm." I shook my head quickly when Silva looked up.

"I'll ask Dimitri to spare with me at my gym. I need to get clothes and you know that I don't like to wear other people's clothes." Silva nodded and then I walked out.

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"Is that really all you got Dimitri?" He breathes deeply in and out with his hands on his knees. We've been sparing for the last 2 hours without a stop and he was already tired.

Dimitri chuckled sarcastically. "Yeah, yeah whatever." I patted him on the back "Well at least you can keep going at it in bed longer then sparing." He looked up at me and glared. "How do you know if I slept last night or if I'm not tired because of something else?" I shook my head and chuckled at him. "Because you are Dimitri and your left eyes twitch when you lie and your right ear turns red a bit."

He subconsciously rubbed his right ear "What if it's red because of the sparing?" I smirked and started chuckling softly "Excuses don't get you anywhere but whatever helps you sleep at night!"

I pulled off the boxing gloves as I walk to my gym bag I brought from home earlier and picked up my phone from the radio. There were notifications from Facebook, Twitter and there were a few Messages from Nikolai.

*From: Nikolai
Babe, I swear I didn't do it.
From: Nikolai
Tatiana, please don't be mad, I don't know where they heard that but I promise it's a lie!
From: Nikolai
Please answer me Tatia!
From: Nikolai
You know I would never do that to you.*

What the actual fuck was going on? I shook my head and went into Facebook.

*Ava Vella added 2 new photos – with Nikolai Moretti
1 Hour Ago
"Nikolai, I love you so much. I know you said to wait but I can't anymore. It's time the school knows that your relationship with Tatiana Aksakor is Fake. That she paid you to be her boyfriend. Now we can be together!"
565 (👍🏻) 431(💓) 217(😠) (105🤣) 894 Comments*

Breathing in through my nose and breathing out through my mouth, I tried to calm my emotions down. I'm not mad, because I knew it was only time before she took a jab at me. I knew she was planning something so I was expecting this.

I took in a deep breath and slowly let it out. I repeated that 5 more times before I was calmed down. Then I ball my fists so ready to fight someone. I regrettably decided to read some of the comments.

*"Oh, my word! So happy for you guys! You deserve each other."
"This is amazing news guys!"
"Is she really that fucking desperate? What a slut Tatiana Aksakor."
"Wow, that is so funny!"
"I knew he would never go for someone like her! I mean did you see how fugally she is! Ew!"
"Tatiana Aksakor is a SLUT!"*

Those were only a few of the comments so I close Facebook and take a deep breath before rolling my shoulders. Yeah, this is good, I could transfer all this anger-energy into tonight's fight! My phone rang and I looked down at the screen seeing that it was Nikolai calling.

Still angry I answered the call with a lot more aggression then what was meant for him, "What?" He started talking "Tatia it is not true. Those photos were a long time ago! I promise I did not cheat on you or tell anybody that you paid me to date you!" I rolled my eyes in disbelief.

"You idiot, of course, I know this. I know there is no way you would cheat because you know what my family does on a daily basis. So relax, I believe you, but do me a favour. I'm going to send you an address. Ask Ava on a date and bring here to this address, it's time I teach this bitch who she's messing with!" I hung up before he could answer and sent him the address of an underground ring where I fought tonight.

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"Ladies and Gentlemen!! Welcome to this year's fight nighttttt!!!" The crowd outside the curtain went wild "Let's welcome to the ring The Rampage with 57 wins and 20 Loses weighing at 242.50 pounds." You could hear the cheering and I chuckled seriously? 20 loses this is going to be easy, I thought silently.

The Rampage was a 23-year-old woman that had a bad childhood and took up fighting as a solution. I have to admit she is good but I have seen better and I've done better. I just have to go easy on her tonight. "Now her opponent, The Natural Killer, with 184 wins and 2 Loses, one of our reigning champions weighing at 187.39 pounds."

The crowd didn't cheer because they haven't heard my name in a long time. The last time I fought was 2 nights before I was arrested and they haven't heard of me since then. It's time I bought my legacy back.

The crowd waited for me to exit the curtains and when I did they went wild. I was jumping around on the balls of my feet. When I got in the ring you could see the fear in Rampage's eyes. She wanted to get out of the ring but her trainer took her by the head and gave her a pep talk. She was nodding her head listing to him but you could still see the nervousness in her eyes.

While she was busy I scanned the crowd and saw Nikolai sitting in the chair I told him to with a fidgeting Ava next to him. She looked around nervously and I smirked.

Slowly I pulled my hoodie of my head uncovering my face. Nikolai's eyes grew wide and Ava gasped when she saw me glaring at her. She wanted to get up and leave but stayed put. She whispered something in Nikolai's ear and then he nodded pointing at me.

She tensed and sat back, fear written all over her face. I looked at the reverie and he nodded. I shook hands with Rampage and she nodded "Let the best fighter win," Her voice was quivering and she was shaking a bit. I chuckled under my breath and the bell ring.

She moved into her fighting stance and I stood straight waiting for her to make the first move. She was dancing on the balls of her heals all around me, looking for weaknesses she wouldn't find.

The rampage went in for a kick and punch combination which I ducked and missed the hits. I returned my own kick in her abdomen and she stumbled. I punched her a few times as she tried to block but I got in a few punches.

The rampage recovered quickly and punched me square in the jaw. She definitely had a mean right hook. There was an opening and I kicked her leg causing her to fall back on the white plastic material of the ring. There were blood splatters on it and I smirked.

Without taking my eyes off her I gripped her arm and pulled her up before doing around the house kick when she stood straight. Yeah, I just helped her up but for my advantage. She was still unstable when the kick hit her and fell back into the rope that stood cage of the ring.

I strike my elbow into her abdomen. When she curled over in pain I lifted my knee and trusted it into her nose. There was a crack in the air before the plastic white material under me became a pool of blood.

I bent down and picked rampage up by her knees into the air and the tackled her into the ground. She lay still on the ground, groaning from pain. I wasn't done with her just yet. I punched left, right, left, right when the revere pulled me away. The Rampage was still on the ground but this time her eyes were swollen shut. The revere began his countdown and the crowd counted with him

"10"
"9"
"8"
"7"
"6"
"5"
"4"
"3"
"2"
"1"

The bell rang and the crowd cheer. The Rampage's trainer got into the ring and dragged her limp body to their corner trying to wake her up. The medics got to business, trying to wake her up and see if she was okay.

"Ladies and Gentlemen!! We have a winner. The Natural Killer, with 185 wins and 2 Loses." the revere shook my hand, with one last look at Ava I jumped out of the ring moving backstage.
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