Fighter's Block

And then,

He did what he had been too scared to do since the start of this whole thing.

He punched me in the face.

In the jaw to be exact. I can't really complain because I've been provoking him all night, even if it did hurt more than what I expected, but that was probably because he was already angry with me. I hear my body thud against the floor before I felt the pain shoot through my side. I was too focused on my jaw at that point. I stayed on the floor not from pain, but from pure shock in the fact that I had finally accomplished my goal. My blissful ignorance of the pain I got from the floor was short lived, and now I can practically feel the bruise forming on the right side of my body. My eyes met his with an amused expression. He looked at me like I was crazy.

"About damn time," I grunted back to him.
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18-year-old Marley Syllins finally gets the opportunity she's been waiting for to train with the best of the best down in Paradise, Nevada at the most iconic boxing gym in the underground world, Champion Boxing. Marley and her Uncle Eddie have been training her to be as good Eddie wanted to be before his dramatic fall out of the MMA world. But her life in Paradise is different. She no longer has to be the spoiled rich girl with amazing lawyer parents, she can focus on her fighting and become just as successful as them, just in a different field of work.

Tyler Stephens reminded Marley of her uncle in every way, which was what drew her close to him in the first place. Outside the ring, he was constantly shrouded by his perfect, academic brother, Andrew.

Marley came to Nevada for her future, but what is her future exactly? Tyler? Or the thing she's dreamed of since she was a kid?