Down for the Count

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The real me lives in the shadows the seedy underbelly where sin Is the only air we know how to breathe. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My dreams of going Pro are at my fingertips. But in one moment one hit those dreams come crashing down around me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The money the fame the life I wanted to give my mother. All gone.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Once I was Kingston The King Reyes. Women and men had chanted my name. Worshiped me. Now I work as a postal worker by day...and at night I crawl into the dark seedy underbelly of sin. An illegal underground fight club where I still reign with my fists but where every fight could be my last. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Brothers Dutch and Dom hold my leash while they pay for my mother's cancer treatments. I'm their puppet their boy toy for wealthy women and power. You don't cross them unless you want to end up on the bottom of a river.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Corrupt darkness coats my skin marks my bones. I don't see any light or hope until on my route I meet a pint-sized mute little girl who seems to look right through me. She sees past the bruises and scars while I can hear beyond her silence.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Yet it is her mother Sawyer I should run from. Sexy feisty and smart Sawyer's darkness draws me in. Challenges me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She is everything I can't have. Everything forbidden.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But everything I want.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No matter the consequences . . .</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>