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🥊 ⠀——⠀ 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 welcome to 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 ⠀⁔⠀ work hard, fight dirty 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 🩸🥊 ! Give credits if republished ! (Inspired by Fight Dirty) At eighteen, Y/N Montgomery is everything Ashridge was built to admire. The Police Chief’s daughter. Popular. Wealthy. Untouchable. At least that’s what it looks like from the outside. Because at school, admiration has started turning into something else. Unwanted attention. Hands that linger too long. Rumors that spread faster than she can shut them down. And threats that appear just often enough to make her feel like she’s being watched. She doesn’t tell her father. Not yet. Instead, she tries to handle it herself. That’s when Roman Cross stops being just a rumor. Everyone at Ashridge knows Roman. Troublemaker. Fighter. Suspended too many times to count. The guy teachers warn you about and students avoid altogether. What they don’t know is that Roman isn’t reckless for attention. He’s surviving. After his father disappears and debt swallows what’s left of his family, Roman is forced into illegal underground fighting—where every match pays and every loss costs more than just pride. When Y/N offers him a deal—bodyguard, real protection—he refuses. So she follows him. And what she finds changes everything. A hidden fight circuit. A life built on bruises, bets, and survival. And Roman Cross stepping into a ring like pain is just part of the job. Now she has leverage. And Roman has no choice but to agree. What starts as a calculated arrangement quickly becomes something neither of them knows how to control. Because protection turns personal. Distance disappears. And somewhere between lies and late-night fights, neither of them remembers when it stopped being strictly protection. But in Ashridge, secrets don’t stay buried for long. Especially when the Police Chief begins closing in on the very underground world Roman is trying to survive in. 🥊🩸🎀