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I was torn, I wanted to believe him, wanted to think I could fix everything for Cadence with one win. But, I also didn't want to break my word, the promise I gave Rainee's mother. I fought for Louis already, I had broke my promise just so I didn't look like a pussy.

He had called me out once, and now here he was trying to do that again.

I'm not falling for it, I was weak for one instant, one moment in time, and I knew I could be forgiven for that.

But to do it again, to get sucked into the belly of the beast...

No fucking way.

“I'm not fighting for you. Cadence, she belongs to me now anyway. Your grip around her is fading, if you hadn't noticed. Use another one of your dogs.” Turning away from him, I wrapped my palm around the handle, ready to walk out that door, and never look back.

“You're sealing her fate then, Quinn.”

Stopping dead, my head snapped over my shoulder.“What did you just say?”

“You heard me. Of course I had to have a plan B if you said no. And I'm sorry to say this but... I gave you the option that kept Cadence in your hands.” The lie tumbled forward over false affection. “Now, she won't even belong to me. I told you I owe a lot of money, she'll belong to someone else to help pay off my debt. All I need to do is make that call. I'll really miss my daughter, I don't want to have to do this, but you're forcing me, Quinn.”

My muscles seized, the words crawling over my flesh like hundreds of bugs. Exploding through each nerve, they tore through my veins, boiling my body from the inside. I felt a pain more intense than anything I had ever experienced.

“You can't sell her! She's not your fucking property!” Screaming at him, my hands clenched tight, chest struggling to find the air to breathe. I was in shock that he would even consider that as an option.

“I can and will do what I want. If you won't take my offer to fight, then I have no other option.” He spoke with no emotion, no care for what he was considering.

What kind of person sells their daughter to pay a debt?!

He truly is the epitome of evil.

The urge to dive over the desk and strangle the life from him rode my spine. He was a waste of air, the lowest piece of shit I had ever met.

He was tying my hands, pulling a noose around my neck. I had to fight now, there was no way I could let him sell Cadence.

She was worth fighting for.

But I was going to set some rules of my own. He wasn't going to tangle his fingers in full force.

Fuck! What the fuck! She can't know about this. She doesn't need to, it could ruin her. I don't want her to ever think she was just a bartering tool.

Cadence was so much more than she had realized, more than her own flesh and blood had ever realized.

The Macro, he would get what was coming to him. Karma had its way of making it around full circle.

For now, Cadence needed me, she needed me to keep her safe; No matter what.

And he knew it too.