Cage Fighting

Logan and Marie were running short on funds after traveling halfway across the state. They had picked up gas, food, and a deck of cards and they didn't have much left after those. "Hey look," Marie pointed to a strip joint.

"I can't waste money in there," Logan said giving Marie an odd look.

"I don't want you to," Marie said "let's see if they'll let me work one night and get some cash," she said trying to get Logan to pull over.

"No Marie, I took you away from that place so you didn't have to sell yourself any more. We'll stop in and see if there's a cage fighting ring anywhere."

"What so I can't go through something pleasurable for money but you can get the shit beat outta ya?" Marie snapped.

"Marie don't talk like that," Logan bellowed.

"Like what Logan? Sex is pleasureable it. Feels. Good. It's why people do it."

"Marie," Logan slammed on the breaks and threw the truck into park "you aren't selling yourself! Do you really like it?" he yelled.

Marie looked down "no of course not. I just hate watching you get hurt," she whispered.

Logan sighed with relief and gathered his little girl into his arms. "Good I was really worried for a minute."

"Why?" she asked looking up at him.

"Because it isn't ok for you to like sex, especially not with random strangers. You're too young," he kissed the top of her head.

She smiled up at him "promise you'll be careful?"

"Careful is my middle name," Logan chuckled and helped her out of the car. Marie looked at him oddly and he pointed up to where they were. "Found one," he said.

"Oh," Marie followed him into the bar that also housed a cage fighting ring. Marie gasped as one of the men stumbled out of the cage bloody and breathing heavily. "Be careful," she cautioned again as he stepped into the cage. She immediately went over to the betting area and placed all of the cash they had left on him, all two hundred dollars.

"Someone's confident," the woman said.

"He's my boyfriend so I should be," Marie smiled the lie slipping from her lips easily. She took a seat and clutched the locket she wore. She sat beside a woman who seemed to be eagerly rooting for the other man. Marie thought about moving but just as she was about to the woman beside her yelled as Logan was nailed in the face.

The cage suddenly had all of Marie's attention and she watched as Logan beat the man until he forfeited. Marie jumped up happily clapping and the woman beside her suddenly stood and punched her in the face. Marie yelped as she fell backwards and off the slightly elevated seating area.

"Hey don't touch my girl," Logan stood towering above the woman who was laughing at Marie.

"So-sorry," the woman said escaping in a hope to not look like her husband. Some of the other men who were around helped get Marie up and another woman took a wet cloth to a cut on her forehead. Logan went and sat beside the two woman watching intensely as his Marie was being treated.

"Does it hurt?" he asked her.

"I'm ok," she assured taking Logan's hand in hers. "You can go fight again if you'd like I think they're waiting on you anyways."

Logan nodded kissed her forehead and went back to the cage. The bet lady came to Marie and gave her, her four hundred dollars. Marie put one hundred back on him, trying to seem normal and not overly confident.

Logan won seven more fights took home the thousand dollar grand prize and Marie had made a profit of one thousand four hundred. Logan had taken her hand and they hurried out of the town that night to avoid any confrontations.

When they arrived in the next town Marie was asleep in the truck and Logan lifted her into his arms. He smiled as he walked into a Holiday Inn and got the cheapest room. He set her on the bed and made himself comfortable on the floor.

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