In Sly's Eyes: In Sly's Eyes Marco's MMA Boys Book 2 by S.M. Donaldson Page A

was so excited and confident. Sloan was the one who looked like she was going to run away pissing her pants. Tonight, the way my heart is pounding in my chest, I feel like that’s me.
    Sloan looks around. “Damn, Kara. I’m a little nervous about having Sage here. I had no idea it was going to be like this.”
    I shake my head. “I don’t think the guys did either. Neither one of them said anything.”
    “Okay, well Sage is sitting between my dad and brother. Lox is going to freak out. He doesn’t like these big crowds around Sage.” She speaks close to my ear so I can hear her with all of the noise.
    “I just hope they come get us after the fights. It’s going to be hell getting out of here.”
    She nods and then the lights go down.
    “The Joker” by The Steve Miller Band comes blasting through the crowd. That means Sly is up first tonight. He even has to have a light-hearted walkout song.
    I hear the crowd scream out, “ Some call me the gangster of love.” Look at Sly smirking, he’s eating this shit up.
    A couple of minutes later, the fight is going strong and I find myself on my feet leaning further and further in. “That’s it, Sly!” I scream right as he lands another punch. “Go! Sly, get him again!” Ding.
    Whew, round one over. Thank God!
    Sly talks to Marco during the little break thing they do. The bell dings and they are back at it.
    The guy Sly is fighting tonight is about the same height as him but this guy just looks bigger. Sly is faster, though. The guy has Sly hemmed up, shit. “Come on, Sly!”  He does some move that could rival most professional dancers in skill and reverses the move on the guy.
    Sly is so damn hot. He’s too hot for his own good. Now I remember why I wanted to go home with him that night. Funny how I’m going home with him tonight but in a completely different way.
    I look up again just as Sly delivers a knockout punch.
    Ding Ding Ding.
    I scream and cheer as the official holds up Sly’s arm to declare him the winner.
    ~*~*~
    The matches go pretty quickly for the night, until we get to Huck’s. When “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd blares out of the sound system, the crowd is on their feet. His fight practically turns into a blood bath. I can see Sly and Lox, along with Marco, ringside. Elizabeth is sitting by Jade and I can see she’s on edge just watching this. Everyone swears those two will have one of those fucking or fighting relationships. I don’t know, Elizabeth seems full of secrets. They could already be fucking and no one knows it. Hell, I live with Huck and I don’t know where he wanders off to. There’s just something about those two.
    The ringing of the bell brings me out of my daydreaming. The roaring goes off like a bomb in this place. Holy shit! Huck just won!
    Our section is going crazy when we hear a gun go off. We all hit the floor. I look over at Sloan and she is pale with fear. The rest of the building is going nuts. People are being ran over and trampled. I look up and I can’t see any of the guys. I look over again at Sloan. “We need to get to the dressing rooms where the guys are.” Her mom is crying, Sage is terrified, and we’ve got to move. The people in this place are going to trample us to death if we don’t.
    “Yeah,” she turns to the rest of the group and motions for everyone to follow us. Her dad and brother nod in agreement.
    “Sloan, you go first and I’ll make sure everyone gets to the right place. Besides Elizabeth, we’re the only people who know this place.”
    Jacob, Sloan’s brother, grabs up Sage. We start making our way to the dressing room as madness unfolds around us.
    We finally reach the hall leading to the dressing rooms and I stop to make sure everyone is ahead of me going in. As I reach for the door, a hand grabs me and spins me around, backing me into the wall. It’s one of the fighters from tonight. He’s big and sweaty. “Hey there. You shouldn’t be back here, you know.” I can feel it