Chapter 15
Chapter 15
“Move it, Aleera, twentyps now,” Tobias roared behind me.
Despite not wanting to run, my feet start moving, the rocks digging into my feet painfully. It didn’t take
long before the men ovepped me. Around a hundred or so barging and shoving past me. What the
heck was their problem? I didn’t even know them, and they took no care when they came too close.
“Aleera!” I hear Zac’s voice behind me before looking over my shoulder in time to see him running
straight at me. I tried to step out of his way when he dropped his shoulder and barrelled straight into me,
diverting slightly off track to deliberately hit me.
My body was tossed across the gravel, and I felt like I was being skinned alive. My face burned as I
skidded across the loose gravel, my hands I used to try and brace myself grazed, and I felt battered and
bruised all over.
“Up Aleera, you have only done threeps,” Tobias calls from the center where the obstacle courses
were. I haul my body up t o my hands and knees. Trying not to cry out at my pain and difort.
It was agonizing, I kept going, and by the time I finished theps, the men hadpleted theirs plus the
obstacle course. The rest of the ss moved on to their next lesson while Zac had been told to make
sure I finished the course.
His sneers and name-calling were starting to get to me. I was starving, and the sun was cooking me
alive. I wondered how long I had been out here when the re of the rm sounded signally; it was
lunch.
Someone brought Zac out some food while I tried to navigate the climbing wall. My arms could not take
my weight much longer and shook as I tried to haul myself up when I felt something smack me in the
center of the back. I was about five meters up when pain rippled up my spine, and I lost my grip,
plummeting to the ground below.
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A shriek left my lips as I grasped the air frantically, hitting the ground with a thud before darkness
swallowed me.
It was the sound of angry voices that pulled me back to my surroundings, a furious growl has me
blinking, and I found the sun was no longer directly above me, the sky in orange and pink hues as I tried
to remember what happened.
“If she ran again, I swear I will fucking kill her,” Darius’s angry voice boomed. I groan, rolling on my side,
my head pounding to its own beat, and every muscle ached. My back was killing me and my skin felt
sunburnt
“You know she wouldn’t be able to find her way through the . forest to the road. She wouldn’t even know
what direction to g o in,” I hear Lycus’s voice answer, Darius.
“Wait, I can smell her scent,” Lycus growls, and I pull myself up to my hands and nce around to see
theming up over the small hill from the castle.
“Found her,” Tobias calls out. Pointing at me. My vision was blurry, and I squinted about to get to my feet
when suddenly Darius gripped my hair, yanking my head back. He moved with speed that made the air
rush around me. One second he was over on the crest of the small hill; the next second, he was beside
me.
“You think you can skip sses, Aleera?” He snarls as I clutch his hands and cry out. My hair ripped
painfully from my scalp, and I would need to find some scissors. The taunts and bullying I could deal
with. The hair-pulling was a low act and very demeaning. I suddenly cursed being a girl.
“Let go. You’re hurting me,” I choke out, and heughs before shoving me forward back in the dirt.
I rubbed the back of my neck and noticed Kalen was nowhere t o be seen, which at least gave me
comfort, knowing the only person who had been decent to me since being here wasn’t hunting me down
to inflict more injury when my brain backtracked. He was one of them. He could be looking for me
elsewhere.
“Get up; you have power cement with me. If I ever have toe searching for you again because you
have missed ss-“.
“Ah, finally you found her,” Kalen says, cutting Darius off as h e jogged over to us and a look of relief
crossed his features as h e let out a breath.
“Had me worried for a second, I thought you left us again,” Kalen says before his smile falters when he
looks at me. Kalen turns and looks at Darius before he shoves him. “Why is she bleeding? What the fuck
did you do?” Kalen snaps out in an angry growl.
Darius rips Kalen toward him by the front of his shirt. “I haven’t done anything but take that tone with me
again, and I will make you watch her punishment,” Darius growls at him.
Lycus grips Darius’s arm, and Darius looks at him. “We have enough going on. We don’t need to be
fighting each other, especially over her,” Lycus says before ring down at me. I remained quiet, not
wanting to draw any more attention to myself. Kalen, however, doesn’t.
“Punishment for what?” Kalen demanded.
“She skipped my ss and Lycus’s,”
“Come on, give her a break. It’s her first day,” Kalen says, reaching down to offer me his hand. I reached
for it, and Darius pped my hand away.
“She can get up herself. She survived for six years holed up, God knows where, or with whom, she can
get herself up,” Darius snaps at him. Kalen frowns and appears to be thinking.. He went to speak before
closing his mouth. A dark expression crosses his features before he turns on his heel and walks off.
My stomach sinks, wondering why the sudden change in his attitude. Surely, he didn’t believe what
Darius had said, but then again, I didn’t really know any of them well enough to judge their behavior.
Though a kick to my leg pulls my gaze away from a retreating Kalen. I hiss at the sudden pain radiating
up my leg.
“Get up and get to your next ss.” Darius spits at me. The look of pure hatred on his face makes me
cringe away. My eyeballs pulsated in my head, along with the pounding headache and all I wanted to do
was find somewhere toy down and rest for a bit.
Climbing to my feet, I staggered. The ground felt like it was moving, and my vision blurred worse.
Touching the back of m y head, I wince, quickly pulling my fingers away to find blood stained them.
“I said get to the next ss,” I flinched at his closeness and forced myself to move.
“What time is it?” I ask as I try not to limp. Each footfall caused pain as the rocks stabbed and sliced my
tender feet open more.
“Lunch just finished,” Lycus answers, and I nod. My stomach growls hungrily at the mention of food. I
couldn’t believe I had been out here for hours. Zac just left me there. That thought. stung a little at the
knowledge that not a single person here cared if I suddenly dropped dead.
“Where are your shoes?” I don’t bother answering Lycus, and Darius growls behind me when I stop
ncing back at him.
“I don’t know where I am going,” I admit. Let alone what ss I had next.
“The mess hall, now get moving,” Darius snarls. Lycus moves toward me and grips my arm, and Tobias
and Darius both growl at him.
“For fucks sake, Darius, look at her feet. She can barely fucking walk,”
“Well, if she didn’t skip sses, I may have given her shoes,”h e retorts.
“I didn’t skip. I fell off because of that jerk-” I argue but stop not seeing the point in debating my tardiness
with him.
“Because of who?” Tobias demands, and I nce at him to see Darius re at him. Tobias quickly looks
away and adds nothing else when my feet suddenly go from under me. I shriek, not expecting it, and
Lycus grabs me, scooping me up i n his arms.
“Lycus!” Darius roars, and I feel the energy rush out of him, which makes me suddenly want to run.
Terror filled me, and I wanted Lycus just to put me down before Darius did something. Lycus just holds
me tighter and starts walking when I smack into Darius’ chest while in Lycus’s arms. Lycus stops staring
at him.
“She can walk,” Darius tells him, but Lycus holds his gaze unafraid of him while I push closer to Lycus.
The movement is not missed by Darius, who res at me.
“She is done for the day,” Lycus says, his voice even as he barges past him, walking around a furious
Darius.
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