Hunter
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He looks nervous. So I have to ask. “Warden, why do you keep offering me an out?”
Shaw scowls. “I’m trying to show you the last mercy you will ever see.” But he’s lying. The warden is nervous about sending a woman into the bullpen, but his concern isn’t for me. So what is he worried about? Riots? Upsetting the status quo?
“I appreciate your…concern. But I’ve made my decision.”
“Then what happens to you is out of my hands.” For a second, I think he’s going to extend a hand for me to shake. But then he turns abruptly and marches from the room.
“What was all that about?” Cottrell asks as he sets a pair of white socks and gray sneakers in front of me and motions for me to put them on. “He doesn’t usually editorialize the briefing.”
When I’ve tied my shoes, Beardon pulls me up from the chair and out the door. “She’s not the usual fighter.”
“If he wants to fuck her—”
Beardon cuts Cottrell off with a glare. “After what happened at the Resort—” He shakes his head and starts over. “This is about money. If she survives long enough to step into the ring, the ratings will go through the roof. We’ve never had a female fighter before.”
Waite makes a scoffing sound in his throat. “And we never will again, once they see her slaughtered in the arena.”
“The warden’s right.” Beardon leads me toward a transport shuttle waiting for us on the landing dock. “She’s not going to live long enough to step onto the sand.”
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The Prison Planet Series
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