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Chapter 32 - Tatum Reid
Tatum POV
Everything seems to move in slow motion. I can’t believe what is happening here. I know Thunder thinks highly of himself and I never thought he would get so upset about this. I honestly thought women would bid on him, but I guess no woman wants to bid on a man who shows off like that, a man who did nothing to stop the women fighting for him and didn’t even acknowledge them. I guess he might learn a lesson with this. Or so I hope.
“No, you’re not my captain anymore so you can’t come in here and start barking orders thinking we all have to bow to you, fuck you Moore, you are where you deserve to be,” he says, and before I even compute what was said a fist meets with Thunder’s nose making him take a couple of steps, back trying to keep his balance. His eyes go darker as he looks straight to find Fred without his jacket his sleeves pulled up to his elbows and his fists up in a fighting position.
“Come at me,
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