Revenge: Concrete Lullaby part III: 3

Three months after sparing the man who murdered his father, Sam is trying to leave the underground fighting world behind.He wants a normal life. He wants to forget the blood, the violence and the memories that have haunted him since childhood. But revenge doesn't disappear simply because a fight is over. It waits. Mercer has never forgiven Sam for walking away. Now he wants a rematch.Sam refuses. He won't fight for hatred anymore. He won't fight for pride. Most importantly, he refuses to become the kind of man Mercer is, ut Mercer refuses to accept no.He begins hunting Sam through the bare knuckle underground fight scene, smashing up bars, attacking anyone who might know where Sam is and leaving a trail of violence behind him. When Sam still refuses to return to the pit, Mercer finds the one thing capable of forcing his hand.Bridget.The woman who became Sam's mother, father and family after his own parents were gone. The woman who raised him from the age of six. Mercer kidnaps her and makes his demand brutally simple: Fight me, or she dies.With no other choice, Sam returns to Costel, the trainer who has guided him since his earliest days as a fighter. But this time Costel prepares him for something far darker than a bare-knuckle contest. There are no rules in the underground, only boundaries that fighters traditionally understand. Mercer has already crossed them, and Costel knows that Sam must be prepared for a fight where survival may depend upon doing things he once believed were beyond him.For six weeks, Sam trains harder and more brutally than ever before.All the while, he wrestles with the possibility that he may never come home.His father died fighting Mercer fifteen years earlier, Now Sam knows he could suffer the same fate. As the final night approaches, Sam turns to the memory of his dead father for guidance, desperately hoping to hear the voice that once told him to walk away, but there is no answer.Then, beneath the freezing night sky, surrounded by the headlights of parked cars, Sam finally comes face to face with Mercer.There is no ring.No referee.No rules.Only two men, fifteen years of hatred and a fight that can end only when one of them can no longer continue.Sam isn't fighting for revenge.He's fighting for Bridget.But as the violence reaches its darkest point, Sam must confront the question that has haunted him since he was a child: How far will he go to avenge his father without becoming the man who killed him?Revenge is the third chapter of the Concrete Lullaby saga - a brutal, emotional story of family, violence, loyalty and the devastating price of revenge.