Sky Ghosts: Marco (Young Adult Urban Fantasy Adventure) (Sky Ghosts Series Book 1.5) Read Online Free PDF Page B

and catching her arm. Instead of trying to pull out of his grasp, she lunged at him, and he was surprised to learn that her left fist felt just the same as the right one. Marco cursed, trying to shake her off, but now she was clinging to him like a vine, and he had to slam back into a wall to get rid of her. She dropped to the floor and stared at him viciously, while he used the opportunity to take a breath.
    He could see the other fighters watching them with excitement, but he tuned out their voices and charged at her again. She jumped out of reach at the last moment, but he had expected that. He dodged to the left and brought her down again. This time he wasn’t going to hold back. He punched her in the stomach and swung his fist for another blow, but she hit him in the jaw with enough force to make his vision rain stars. She was on her feet again, and Marco was beginning to lose patience. Breaking bones was back in the game, but he had to remind himself that he couldn’t kill the girl. He didn’t want the whole of Headquarters on his tail.
    He circled her slowly, pulling the stolen knife from his belt.
    “Spice it up a lil’ bit?” he suggested, giving her a serious look, and she showed her teeth.
    “With pleasure,” she purred, taking a knife twice the size of Marco’s from underneath her jacket.
    Marco blinked. Surely that couldn’t be a good weapon for those tiny hands! What the hell was wrong with this girl??
    She attacked first, slashing at his arm in the next second, wielding the knife as if it were a plastic hairbrush. He hit back, and for a few minutes the fight was pretty balanced, until she began to use all sorts of tricks to get to his neck. Marco growled. He had to end this before Rob or the others showed up, and she didn’t even seem tired. He had managed to punch her in the face once, and her eyebrow was split and bloody, but it obviously wasn’t going to be enough. He had to knock her out.
    He lunged forward, and when she stepped left, he stepped right. Only he didn’t expect her to be ready for this, and as he continued to move right, she pushed him, adding momentum, and was suddenly behind him. Her hand grabbed his chin even as he realized his mistake, and he already knew what would happen next. In one move, she was sitting on his shoulders with the knife pressed to his neck from behind.
    “Gotcha,” she muttered in his ear, and Marco froze.
    He stood there, in the middle of the training hall, and for the first time had no idea what to expect. If they’d been somewhere on their own, he didn’t doubt that she would at least wound him. But here? Among all these people? He didn’t think so. Even crazy people didn’t like witnesses when they killed someone. He ought to know: he was one of them.
    “How does it feel, losing to a girl?” she murmured from behind.
    He snorted. Her hair tickled his face, and he ached to grab a handful of it and tear it out.
    “I think I’ll take this so you don’t accidentally cut yourself,” she said, reaching down and plucking the knife out of his hand. He didn’t see any point in resisting. “I’m not going to spend another minute on you, moron. If I see you here tomorrow, you’re dead.”
    With that, she released hold of him and dropped to the floor.
    Marco took a deep breath, and then another one. The girls left the room, and some of the other fighters followed, patting Little Bitch on the shoulder and even congratulating her. A few hours ago they were cheering as he had her up against the wall, and now they were all on her side?? Bullshit . He wasn’t scared of her, and he certainly wasn’t going to leave. His next step, that was the problem. He had to expose her, but how?
    The door opened again, to reveal Rob standing in the doorway. He took in Marco’s strange stance in the middle of the room and saw his expression before Marco could compose himself.
    “What happened?” the big fighter boomed in a menacing tone, suspicion reflected in his