She hates him, yet she can’t get him out of her mind. Female Bantamweight fighter, Gabriella Reynolds, has a bad habit of falling for forbidden fighters. Enter Paxton Emerson. He’s tall, tattooed, and the current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Everyone wants a piece of him, and he only has eyes for her. Through no choice of her own, she’s fallen in his debt and he’s now demanding payment. Too … bad it doesn’t involve currency. Gabby’s decision to fulfill her promise to him ultimately brings out her true feelings, but also spurs the unwanted attention of another. Rage’s fixation on his newest obsession reaches dangerous levels. Unfortunately, Paxton Emerson has become a roadblock to his end goal and needs to be removed from the equation–by any means necessary. Gabby will do anything to save Pax, but what happens when she’s the one who needs saving?
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I’ve read this book multiple times and this book is one of my go to re-reads of the Gloves Off Series but I’ve never gotten around to posting a review so here goes. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the connection between Gabriella “Gabby” and Paxton “Pax”. In order for Pax to agree to take Gabby and Ashley to the Dark Side to save Ryley as him and his twin brother Camden were fighting to the d*ath, Gabby had to agree to spend a month with him. Gabby has been interested in Pax for awhile but because he was friends with Kyle she assumed that he was involved in Kyle’s scheme to f*ck with her brother Matt but him and Kyle had stopped being friends by then and little does Gabby know is that Pax actually restored Matt’s Bronco and that they’ve actually liked and known each other for years so out of loyalty to her brother she’s been a complete b*tch to him for awhile now and is planning to stay away at all costs. Before going to stay at Pax’s for a month she receives a single black rose with a note saying One is just the beginning, the black and notes keep showing up at her door, increasing by a rose each time she receives a new note. Once she tells Pax about the notes and the roses they’re both worried that she has a stalker so Pax gives Mason a call to let him what’s happening. Gabby has no idea who’s sending them and why but she gets her answer when Scar the owner/organiser of the Dark Side and two of his muscle show up at her apartment to tell her that she owes him and that she has to fight a few fights for him which of course she turns down until Scar tells her that they’ll k*ll Pax aka the Reaper if she doesn’t and that she should also cool it down with him as one of his fighters Rage wants her as he’s obsessed with her so she agrees to fight in order to keep Pax safe. Rage is a complete psychopath stalker and he’s k*lled women before when he didn’t get his own way as well as a some men if any of those women had boyfriends and because he’s also completely obsessed with Gabby he will stop at nothing until she’s his. I enjoyed seeing Camden and seeing that he doesn’t seem like he’s fully lost what’s left of his humanity, he’s just lost and thinks he has no one to turn to after what he did to his twin Ryley and Ryley’s girlfriend Ashley so I’m really looking forward to reading his book and seeing him get his redemption. I’m also glad that Kyle gave Pax Rage’s real name so Mason could find out who he is and what they’re looking at and he also checked in to see how Pax was doing after the news broke about what happened at the Dark Side and he had a chat to Gabby which wasn’t as bad as she thought it would be and that she seemed to think that he was being genuine. Pax was also happy that he might eventually get his friend back, the real Kyle from when they were younger and way before he started sabotaging people to win at any costs. I’d definitely recommend this book, series and author to everyone.