Tarnished Armor

Chapter Nine

After what would seemingly be a long day of training with Phil, I saw April enter the gym. She was arm in arm with some guy I couldn't identify. I looked at Phil for a second and his face was ice cold.

"Are you okay?" I asked

"Yeah, I'm fine." He said with an iced tone.

She smiled and looked happy before she sent a look of disdain toward me. I felt the fire in my stomach and it took all my resolve to restrain myself before Sara looked towards her.

"Honeybee, she ain't worth the time of day to a dead man. Save that for the ring."

"I want to slap her teeth out of her homeless, troglodyte mouth."

She skipped towards the ring and I finally saw who it was. She was with Aaron Haddad, otherwise known as Damien Sandow..

"Oh look at the bald headed freak and her tatted up piece of shit boyfriend. Wonder how Colby is going to react to this."

She whipped out her iPhone and snapped a pic of me standing next to Phil. Phil took the opportunity to put his arm around me as April snapped her picture. I looked at her.

"I seriously hope you grow the fuck up, AJ. You tease me about being fat when I was pregnant. You tease me about losing my hair, which grew back and you now torment me with a picture that is as PG as you are. You're not even crazy. You're just pathetic."

Scoffing and walking away from me, she looked upset.

"Yeah, go kiss Stu's ass. He looked happier with you yesterday than Aaron does now!" I said to Sara.

"Whoa, Tigress. You need to save your strength."

"I want a piece of her. I'm going to rip her apart."

Sara looked at me.

"There's a time and a place for her breed of sub humanity."

I released a growling breath and looked at Phil.

"My daughters are sick, that..."

I took a deep breath.

"BITCH," I yelled.

"made me want to get more pissed off at something. Give me a punching bag or be one. I don't give a fuck right now."

Phil looked at me.

"Relax,"

"She gets under my skin and I just wanna punch the shit out of her."

Phil led me to a punching bag.

"Here, punch this."

Working on my jabs and punches, I saw Phil talking to Sara.

"She needs to let whatever it is about April go." Phil said.

"Shouldn't you take your own advice, Brooks?"

"She dumped me. I didn't leave her."

"Then, tell me something."

"What do you wanna know?"

"What did you do with Lindsay the night of her 21st?"

Phil looked at Sara.

 "Nothing happened. She was drunk and I didn't want to cause a commotion."

She saw the look on Phil's face.

'You're lying, Pinocchio, your nose is growing."

Phil looked at her.

"I won't tell."