Chapter 27

Chaos was breaking out, but Yvaine wasn’t exactly losing. She’d landed a kick on everyone who came near, even knocked one guy flat on his arse. ‘All those kickboxing classes finally paying off.’ She even had the time to gloat to me. I nodded at her. That was when Rhys finally decided to show up, fresh from whatever mirror he’d been admiring himself in. He took one look at the scene and his face went from ‘Skyline City heartthrob’ to ‘incoming category five hurricane’ in half a second. ‘Mirabelle! What the hell are you doing? If you’re pissed off, take it out on me! Leave Catherine out of it!’ he snapped, storming towards me. Moving fast, he grabbed my wrist, trying to yank my hand out of Catherine’s hair. But I wasn’t letting go. ‘You stay out of it!’ I snapped, tightening my grip. ‘You just assume it’s my fault without even asking, yeah?’ ‘You’re literally dragging Catherine around by her hair! Am I supposed to pretend I’m blind?’ The room was full of Skyline’s top-tier elite—the type