Find Me If You Dare (Dreamcatcher Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

not holding back. Every muscle in my body stiffened as the girls circled each other.
    Kayla got in a couple more hits, but she also took a few big ones—some to the face. I bounced on the balls of my feet, itching to intercede. I gripped the sides of my trouser legs and flinched with every attack Kayla took. Kayla had trained for five weeks; Samantha had been fighting for one hundred years—and she was ruthless. Of all people to practice against, Samantha was the worst choice. Why had I let her do this?
    Kayla swung her leg, aiming for the pressure point above Samantha’s knee, like I’d shown her, but Samantha grabbed her foot and twisted it before Kayla could land her blow. With a scream, Kayla spun and landed on the ground, chest first.
Bloody hell
.
    I pushed Samantha out of the way. Kayla lifted herself off the ground again, groaning. Apparently she was desperate to get a good ass-kicking. I grabbed the back of her arm, helping her to steady her balance—then she flipped around and clocked me in the nose.
    As black spots tinged my vision, I faltered backward and swore, checking for blood. At least she’d learned how to aim for the back of someone’s head.
    “Crap—Daniel, I’m so sorry. I thought you were Sam,” Kayla said.
    “Seriously? You didn’t even break his nose,” Samantha said.
    Ignoring her, I took Kayla’s face in my hands. Her left cheekbone was already swollen and bruised, and her nose dripped blood. Her bottom lip was also split, like she’d bit down when Samantha had uppercut her. “Damn it. See, this is precisely why I wanted you to ease into this.”
    Kayla smacked my hands away. “Stop babying me! I’m never going to learn to take care of myself if you don’t back off, and then what do you think will happen?”
    Samantha, Seth, and Tabbi stepped away, fidgeting. My and Kayla’s quarrels had become a regular occurrence, apparently.
    “Can we please talk about this later?” I asked, calming the tone of my voice.
    Kayla swept her arms out to her sides. “Sure, Daniel. It’s always later. ‘You’re exhausted; let’s do this later.’ ‘No, you’re not ready; join us later.’ Let me know when ‘later’ arrives and my dad shows up on our doorstep, so I can stand there and let him kill me.”
    I flinched.
    Eyes narrowed, she turned and marched from the training corridor.
    I ran my hand down my face. Arguing with Kayla and watching her storm away in anger cut my heart like a hot knife. Maybe I
was
being too protective. If she was so paranoid about losing her magic, maybe I did need to train and treat her like a Protector. My stomach knotted. I’d fallen so hard and so fast for her. Just the thought of helping her become a lethal fighter, preparing her for a battle she
never
should’ve had to fight, made me squirm.
    “She’s right, you know,” Samantha said. “Someday the battle is going to come, and she needs to be ready for anything.”
    I closed my eyes and sighed. “I know.” I didn’t like it, but Kayla was right—I was doing her more harm than good. I swallowed hard and opened my eyes. “Scouting mission at two a.m. Meet at the gate. I’m going to talk to Kayla.”



ayla was in the loo when I entered the bedroom, and water ran from the tap. I knocked on the door. “Can I come in?”
    There was a long pause, and then the door flung open. Kayla didn’t meet my eyes. She drenched a rag in the water and squeezed. Light pink liquid seeped out. Stepping into the bathroom, I touched her hand and said,
Let me.
When she sighed and dropped the cloth, I slipped my other hand behind her neck and gently turned her face toward me.
    “I’m sorry,” I said, removing the rest of the dried blood from her face. “I shouldn’t be telling you how to prepare, only helping you get better. I forget sometimes that you’re no longer my responsibility but my comrade.”
    “And girlfriend.”
    “That, too.”
    “Which means you can’t treat me like I’m another one of your