Will Be Done by Ciara Graves

Author:Ciara Graves [Graves, Ciara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

I ducked under Mech’s fist with a smirk that was quickly wiped off my face when his foot caught my ankle and tripped me. I fell forward, throwing my hands out to catch myself. I’d saved my nose but couldn’t move fast enough to avoid another kick that left me gasping.

“Get up,” Mech said calmly, stalking in a tight circle around me. “You think they’re going to give you time to recover? You know they won’t. Now get up.”

The soldier side of Mech was coming out. It was more stern and harsh than I imagined possible. I scrambled to my feet, wiped the sweat from my forehead, and raised my fists. I’d been dragged into the main cavern at the crack of dawn. He said was he wanted to ensure I could hold my own in a fight against evil. I assured him I could.

“You mean what you did at the safe house?” he had asked, no hint of the Mech I’d come to know in his eyes. I’d asked him to put our relationship aside, and he’d done it. “That was luck.”

“The hell it was,” I’d snapped.

“Luck. That’s it. What if you lose the gun? What if you can’t find that anger again?”

“I have plenty.”

“Prove it,” he’d said and shook out his hands. “Show me.”

We’d been sparring for the last few hours. I was tired and every inch of my body was sore. The moves I’d been able to perform with ease as an angel took way too much out of me as a mortal. Luckily, the wounds on my back were mostly healed. Otherwise, I would be on the ground by now telling him I was finished. The skin tugged with every motion I made, but they didn’t ooze blood, and the pain was tolerable.

I leapt back as Mech charged me again and landed two solid hits to his side, right by his kidney. He grunted but didn’t go down. I spun out of his reach and kicked him square in the back. He staggered forward a step then easily came around and knocked me to the hard ground. Again.

“If you can’t beat me, not even once, you’re not coming with us.”

“I can fight,” I argued hotly.

“Then do it already. Or did Hadariel beat you? Is that what this is? Did he break you?”

I knew what he was trying to do. The fury I had for Hadariel was what saved my ass the first time. If I couldn’t find a way to tap into it, I’d be dead. I glared at Mech and watched the indifference he had on his face all morning begin to slip.

“Fight, Lela,” he yelled as he lunged forward to put me in a chokehold.

I battered him hard enough to break free, but then he was right back at it.

“Fight back. Do you want to die, is that it?”

“No,” I shouted, elbowing him in the gut.

“Prove it.”

He managed to get an arm around my neck and cut off my air. The demons and humans who’d been watching us scattered, shifting in and out of my darkening vision.

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