It was Brax's first night out with the River Boys since his relationship with Charlie went public. He had arranged for them all to go to a cage fighting event at the Octagon.
The whole place was buzzing when they arrived; Heath looked around and could see some faces from Mangrove River he recognised. Then there were a few more serious looking men which he hadn't seen around before. They must here for the main event he thought to himself as he followed Brax into the back of the Arena where all the fighters were getting ready. Brax headed into a door marked Harry Reynolds, heath recognised Harry instantly. He had been in Angelo's a few times. Harry was a young looking man, he was about late twenty's. Brax shook Harry's hand "Good to see you man" he grinned. Harry nodded.
"Took you long enough to get here" Harry replied, before turning his attention to a beautiful Brunette who was now stood in the doorway. The woman was wearing a short black dress, which clung to her tiny frame. Her hair was pinned back into a high ponytail. Brx smirked as he watched his younger brother staring at this woman, who had now entered the room.
"You back already?" She smiled as she approached Harry. Harry grinned before getting up and hugging him "Thought you would have learned your lesson after last time"
"Hey, I won last time" Harry grinned.
"Yeh I guess you did" the woman teased as she turned to face Brax and heath.
"Who's your friends?" she asked.
"Er…this is Darryl and Heath Braxton" Harry said as he pointed to each man individually
"Yeh, we've met" the woman smiled as she pointed at Brax. "You however, I haven't had the pleasure yet" The woman had now turned her attention to Heath.
"Hi I'm Leoni" she smiled. Heath returned her smiled with a goofy grin of his own.
"Leoni" A voice called from just outside the door "He's asking for you"
Leoni rolled her eyes "I'd better go, nice to meet you Heath. Bye guys" she said as disappeared out of the door. Brax stood and shook his head at Heath.
"Don't even go there mate" Brax warned, Heath turned to face his brother with a confused look on his face "The guy who's headlining here tonight…Jimmy Carter"
"Jimmy Carter, yeah what about him" Heath wondered.
"That was his wife, Leoni Carter. They've been to Angelo's a few times" Brax explained.
"Shit" Heath said under his breath. He had heard so many stories about Jimmy and some of the dangerous things he was capable of.
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Although Heath had been warned by his brother to stay away from Leoni, he had some how managed to spend the whole night watching her. This woman was so beautiful and elegant. Heath watched as she moved effortlessly from one man to another. Discussing business and other such like. Leoni wasn't flirting she was just talking to them. Heath guessed that this is what she would do most nights while her husband was fighting, anything to distract her from seeing her husband bash someone's brains out.
Even though Heath had spent the entire evening watching Leoni, he did manage to watch Jimmy's fight. He had to admit Brax was right, this man was dangerous, his fighting technique was ruthless. He was fast with his fists and even quicker with his reactions.
Any man who got in the cage with Jimmy Carter even had a death wish or a suicide one, getting involved with this mans wife was not even an option. So why the hell am I still watching her? Heath thought quietly to himself.
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After the fights were over and Brax went to collect his winnings with the rest of the boys Heath went back to see Harry. He had been pretty badly hurt in his fight, but he still won. As Heath headed towards Harry's room he heard shouting, it was coming from the room next door. Heath stopped and listened quietly
"I told you to mingle" A male voice yelled, as Heath looked he saw it was Jimmy and Leoni in the room.
"I was mingling" Leoni argued.
"Not from where I was standing" As Jimmy snapped heath heard Leoni gasp. Jimmy had grabbed hold of Leoni's arm.
"Ow, Jimmy stop it your hurting me" Leonia gasped as she felt the grip tighten on her arm.
"I won't be made a fool of Leoni" he spat furiously. Leoni was now holding her arm, trying g to stop Jimmy grip from tightening.
"Please let go, it hurts" Leoni pleaded, before letting out a sigh of relief. Jimmy had finally let go of Leoni's arm. Heath took a step back and hid as he heard footsteps rushing towards the door.
As Leoni rushed past Heath reached out and grabbed Leoni's arm causing her to flinch "Hey I'm sorry I…are you ok?" Heath asked, he could feel Leoni shaking. She just nodded.
"Yes I'm fine" she said quickly and she rushed off out of sight. Heath frowned as he watched the woman walking away.
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Heath still couldn't forget what he had seen earlier that night so he decided to go for a walk on the beach to clear his had. As he walked closer towards the sea he was surprised to see a familiar figure sat on the sand. "Leoni Carter right?" he said as he sat beside her.
Heath was stunned as she turned to face him; she had a cut lip and black eye.
"What the hell happened?" he cried as he put his hand up to her face. Leoni pulled away quickly.
"It's nothing it doesn't matter" she replied quickly.
"Fine, but at least let me take you back to my place and get you cleaned up" Heath said as he stood up and put his hand out to help Leoni up. Leoni paused for a moment before accepting Heath's offer.
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Brax and Casey were both stunned by Heath's arrival, more stunned by the woman he had brought home with him. "What the hell happened to you?" Brax asked as he noticed the cuts on Leoni's face. "Nothing" Heath replied quickly throwing Brax and Casey a look that meant I'll tell you later.
Both brothers just nodded and headed out of the room leaving Leoni and Heath alone.
Heath came back to the sofa with a wet cloth, he gently wiped the blood away from Leoni's mouth "I take it Jimmy did this?" Heath assumed. Leoni just frowned
"I said I didn't want to talk about it" Leoni replied harshly. She didn't mean to snap but under the circumstances Leoni felt a little uncomfortable. For some reason her heart was racing as she felts Heath's warm skin against hers.
Heath's touch was gentle and caring, Leoni put her hand on Heath's "Thank you" she smiled, Heath paused before moving forward to kiss her.
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