
Mature
Length3h 50m
About this audiobook
Some fighters get stopped in the cage. Some get stopped in an exam room. Both are how the body says the truth no one wanted to hear. Ricky Delgado is thirty-three and eight years past the doctor's call that ended his fighting career — *No more combat sports. No commission will clear you.* Featherweight 145, four wins and one loss, a detached retina he didn't see coming. He came back to The Forge and started wrapping other men's hands. He has been good at the role. He has been at peace with it. He has told himself that for eight years, every morning, in the only voice the gym can hear. Dr. Nadia Kowalski is thirty-one. A regional commission ringside physician with a clipboard, a penlight, and the steady, surgeon-trained hands she stopped trusting four years ago in Denver. A textbook clearance she made on a man named Damon that didn't end the way the protocol said it would. She doesn't miss things. The review board said so. The man she cleared still walks wrong, talks wrong.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length3 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: Penlight
8Chapter 8: Fight Night
2Chapter 2: Clearance
9Chapter 9: The Retreat
3Chapter 3: The Cornerman Office
10Chapter 10: Denver
4Chapter 4: Weight Cut
11Chapter 11: The Eye
5Chapter 5: The Truck
12Chapter 12: The Gym Knows
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6Chapter 6: Tulsa
13Chapter 13: The Choice
7Chapter 7: The First Time
14Chapter 14: Cleared
