Sage: A Second-Chance MMA Romance Novella (A Cocky Cage Fighter Legacy Book 2), Lane Hart [bearly read books txt] 📗

SageA Cocky Cage Fighter Legacy Novel

Lane Hart

Contents

Synopsis

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Epilogue

Afterword

About the Author

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue were created from the authors’ imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual people or events is coincidental.

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Synopsis

Sage Abrams has been training for years with one goal in mind – to win a welterweight championship title, just like his father Linc. That’s why, unlike his twin brother Talon, he keeps to a strict regimen. He doesn’t ever date, drink, or party.

With an undefeated record, Sage is finally going to get his chance at a belt. The only thing that stands in the way of him becoming the best welterweight fighter in the world is his opponent, Cyrus Cutler, and an illegal hit that knocks him unconscious.

When Sage wakes up in the hospital, he doesn’t remember the fight or anything else that’s happened in the last few years. The one person he wants by his side as he recovers is Eden, his ex-girlfriend.

Eden is suddenly caught up in an unexpected love triangle. After Sage’s injury, he doesn’t remember dumping her and pushing her into his brother Tal’s arms in order to concentrate on his training.

Will Eden pick Sage, the sweet, determined brother who has already broken her heart once, or will she stay with Tal, the tattooed, bad boy who is only looking for a good time?

Prologue

Eden Duncan

Once upon a time, there were two beautiful princes, both with golden hair and piercing green eyes that could see straight into your soul. They were identical twins. One was unbelievably sweet while the other was incredibly mischievous. Tal, the troublemaker, liked to sometimes pretend he was the ‘good’ twin. That’s what everyone called the kind one, Sage. Not that the rule-breaker was bad; he was just not as perfect as his brother.

I’ve loved them both for as long as I could remember – the prince who could always make me laugh no matter how sad I was, and the one who would pull me into hiding spots to kiss me until my heart would melt for him.

And then we all grew up.

I was packed up and ready to go off to college when the sweet twin broke my heart. He told me I was a distraction, and that he could never be king of the cage if he left to be with me.

Luckily, the bad twin decided to run away with me. He’s been my best friend ever since. I know all of his secrets and he knows all of mine, even the most painful one of all – that he reminds me of his brother who I still love more than anything in this world even after he threw me away.

Chapter One

Eden

“Your phone is blowing up,” Miriah says as I drive us to the event center, my phone buzzing loud enough from my purse to be heard over the radio.

“Will you please tell Tal that we’re on our way and will be there as soon as we can?” I ask her.

“Sure,” she replies before she bends over to rummage through my purse in the passenger floorboard. “Oh,” she mutters.

I glance over and find her staring down at my phone in her hands, the glow of the screen lighting up her face.

“What? Did he send another dick pic? Every time I tell him to stop doing that it only seems to encourage him to send more. Sorry! Just delete it.”

“The messages aren’t from Tal,” Miriah finally admits.

“Oh. Then is it my mom? Dad? They’re probably already at the arena.”

“No, Eden, it’s Sage.”

“Oh.” I try to swallow around the jagged knife in my throat that’s moved lower to split my heart open. No matter how much time goes by, it’s always the same agony inside of me at just the mention of his name. “What does he want?”

“He’s looking for his brother. Sage says Tal won’t answer his phone and he was supposed to be there to help him warm up an hour ago.”

“I’m not his brother’s keeper!” I exclaim in outrage. “Sorry,” I say after my outburst. “It’s just, Tal doesn’t tell me where he goes at all hours of the night. We may be friends with benefits but none of the benefits are knowing where he is twenty-four-seven.”

“Right. Tal just gives you a million orgasms every night to help you sleep,” Miriah whispers to herself with a grin.

“Orgasms are good for you. You should try them sometime,” I tease her.

“I still think it would be weird because they’re twins.”

“They don’t look very similar anymore. Tal’s hair is black, and he has lots of dark tats and piercings, completely different from Sage, who is clean cut and pale because he never leaves the gym.”

“Still, doesn’t being with Tal remind you of him just a little?” she asks.

“A little, yes, but Tal can be very…distracting,” I admit.

There’s another ding with a new text message.

“Sage again?” I ask.

“He says to call or text him if you hear from Tal. And quote, ‘I hope he’s not dead in a ditch somewhere.’”

Shaking my head, I tell her, “Tal would never miss Sage’s title fight. He knows he’s been working for this since they were kids, earning a belt like his