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I stand up straight again and prepare , Asher will realize that he isn’t getting what he wants He’ll either stop the fight or have htso to the face and then another, before I hear a soft voice in the crowd calling ets closer I realize that it’s Lyric

My blood runs cold, and for the first tis to my face when I spot Lyric’s cara toward the ring, screa All I can think about is how Alex allowed her to coet us all killed

"Meht back They’ll kill you Please!" Right as she gets close to the ring Asher scoops her up and starts pulling her through the crowd I see her swing out and punch Asher over and over It doesn’t seeh He looksproud

I feel an adrenaline I’ve never felt before surge throughout When I release his hair, he falls to the ceet to Lyric, my body so sore that I al to restrainFro topunches left and right, keeping his eyes on Lyric the entire ti h people, and on top of people My protective instinct is spiking so et to her and Alex

Just when I think I have a chance, I feel soet tackled by a few guys wearing suits

I start fighting the to see hurt thee ar kill you! Get the fuck off of me!"

It seehtto lose them both Asher is powerful Everyone fears him If there’s a way out of this gling against them and prepare for theh to theh the hall when suddenly I hear gunfire and everyone starts rushing and fighting to get out of the warehouse

My heart stops and ain until I’ herd

Everyone is juain, causingup with cops until I get to the back hallway and see Lyric and Alex squeezed into a rooround with a knee to his neck as a police officer cuffs him

His eyes meet mine for a split second before they find their way to Lyric Soht I’d see: pain

Lyric is crying, her body stiff as she stares back at Asher while he screas "How could you? My own fucking daughter! You betrayed et held back by a few cops that read etting out of this I’ keeping me happy is that Lyric and Alex are safe They’re the only two that ht as a police officer starts dragging me away "No! He’s with us Don’t arrest hi to her, but she doesn’t seeet to me "I’m so sorry, Memphis I had to call the police I couldn’t let you die in there It will be okay I pro to the cops" She pushes an officer as I try to break through to her

Once she gets by I co ainst his nose before pushing Lyric against the ith ainst hers Her hands wrap aroundand hard before pulling away "Stay with Alex Can you promise me that?"

She nods her head and Alex rushes out into the hall and grips my shoulder

"I’ll take care of her Don’t worry, et it all sorted out I’m sorry, bro I only let her cohter"

I press ged away and thrown against the wall alongside everyone else that’s in cuffs They take us out one by one, leading us to the pile of cars that take up alet outside, I look up to see Asher shooting daggers ets thrown into the back of one of the cars He’s evidently pissed off and hurt that his only daughter betrayed him to help me

Once I’m thrown into a car,that Alex and Lyric are safe It’s now that it fully sinks in what Lyric did tonight and howthat she had to h choice toand he was the only one that she had

She told me once before that her father was a bad o Now I knohy there are so many police cars outside

She made this decision for me Now it’s time for me to make a decision for her

Teeks later

AFTER THINGS CALMED DOWN AND I explained everything at the station, they dropped the charges against Me fora police officer’s nose, so they agreed on giving hi that went doe couldn’t have gotten any luckier than that When I watched theut that I’ve never felt before I didn’t even feel that way as they dragged my father away