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Chapter 74
Max
I walked into the gym that was owned by the family with Nico. I liked to workout whenever I have some down time. Which lately has been a lot more but I have been distracted with all my thoughts about Ivy lately and haven't been since I got to America. Nico hits my arm and nods across the room. I look in the direction he indicated and stop breathing.
Ivy is in the ring that is in the center of the gym, sparing with another girl. She looks amazing in her tight spandex pants and sports bra. I know that if I keep watching the rest of the gym will know that I am enjoying watching her bounce around the ring.
“Max? Maximo Ricci?” I hear someone say my name which drags my attention away from Ivy and her bouncing.
“Joe?” I say when I look at who said my name. Joe and I were really good friends most of our lives. We had known each other since birth and we got into trouble a few times together but our mothers were friends and that made it so
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I watch Max hitting the bag like it someone that he wants dead. What is going on with him? Deciding that it isn’t my problem, I turn and walk toward the locker room, waving to a few people on my way.I pull the zipper on my gym bag and grab my phone then my towel. I send a quick text to Gia asking if she wants to meet for lunch before getting out of the shower. The warm water runs over my shoulders and I can feel them start to relax. I sigh and turn, grabbing the soap and try to wash away my thoughts that are turning to Max along with the sweat I worked up from sparing with Ethel. I try to think about that instead. I think about what I did wrong and what I could have done better. Then I think about how the room felt different suddenly when he walked in. “Damnit!” I shout before turning off the water and grabbing my towel to yank on. I swear I can’t seem to stop thinking about him since her got to America. “This is stupid, Ivy,” I scold myse
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Max I spun around as soon as I heard the sound. It wasn’t loud. To anyone not trained like me, they wouldn’t have even heard it let alone know that it was a silencer. I watched as Ivy dove to the ground. I pulled my gun and ran in her direction, firing shots at car the shots were coming from. The tires squealed as it fishtailed a little before finally righting and driving off. When I was sure that there was no more threat to either Ivy or myself, I looked at her on the ground. Bending down beside her I put one hand behind her head and shook her body with my other. “Ivy,” I shook a little harder, “can you hear me?” She didn’t stir, she didn’t make any noise. It didn’t look like she had been shot but I couldn’t be sure because of the lack of light around us. She was breathing though. “Tesoro,” I whispered the term of endearment that I used when we were teens. I had thought I was so slick back then because she had melted the first time I used it. I find
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