"The more boys that like me, the less likely I die in here. Sue me, I'm looking at a long time here and I want to make it kind of easy." He didn't think picking fights would help him and he wasn't sure if he could get half as strong as a guy like Mick, seemed easier to just roll over and play good boy that start anything.

"Someone stayed bitter."

Axel huffed and dropped his head in his hand, giving Hartley a bored expression. "For the last time, I didn't know what they were going to do, they just told me to do it and I did. It was nothing personal." Axel always did what someone bigger and stronger told him to do. That was how he survived. "I've been betrayed way worse than that and I don't hold half the grudge you do."