Bruised Egos

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He bought her debt. Now he wants something the money can't cover.Harper Hayes is drowning. Her father gambled away their family gym, buried them both under six figures of debt, and vanished into the back rooms of every card game in Detroit. She's twenty-three, broke, exhausted, and running out of walls to put her back against.Then Knox Vance steps out of a cage.Undefeated. Unspoken. The silent king of Detroit's underground MMA circuit, Knox doesn't ask for what he wants - he acquires it. He buys her father's debts. Seizes the gym. Collapses every financial lifeline she has left until the only door still open leads directly to him.His terms are simple: twelve months as his personal manager. Live in his penthouse. Stay within his line of sight. In exchange, her father's debts disappear.She signs because she has no choice.She stays because something far more dangerous than a contract is keeping her there.Knox communicates through violence, silence, and a physical dominance so absolute it rewires her nervous system. He doesn't speak - but when he pins her to the training mat with his full weight, his body says everything his mouth won't. And when he finally does speak, two words in a voice like a locked door, Harper discovers that the most terrifying thing about her captor isn't his brutality.It's that she doesn't want to leave.But Knox's empire has enemies. And when a rival syndicate discovers that the silent king has a weakness - her - the cage he built to keep Harper safe becomes the reason she's in danger.Bruised Egos is a full-length dark sports romance featuring a silent, possessive, morally irredeemable MMA fighter hero and a fierce heroine who refuses to break. This book contains explicit content, financial blackmail, forced proximity, extreme power dynamics, and a dark HFN ending. Reader discretion is strongly advised.

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Pagina's: 318, Paperback, Jaxon Reed