Chapter 0084


    | slept well Tuesday night. It was nice being back in my own bed after so much time.


    When | wake up in the morning, | hear the sounds of training outside. | head over to my window seat and sit. Rik had said that


    dad was training the warriors now, but | didn’t realize he meant here in our personal training facilities.


    My eyes are immediately drawn to Rik. He is strong and fast. As | watch, | see him helping his warriors, assisting them when


    they might give up. I’ve never trained with him and | didn’t realize how much of a leader he is. He leads by example. He doesn’t


    comin about anything that my dad throws at them and he’s throwing a lot. He’s yelling at them, calling them pansies and


    basically acting like he’s a drill sergeant.


    After they finish with the obstacles, | watch as Rik begins sparring with each of his warriors. His technique is different than mine,


    as it should be. As a warrior, you y to your strengths. Rik’s are muscle strength, height and speed. Mine are agility, speed and


    endurance. Although, based on how easily he seems to be putting his warriors down, endurance isn’t a weakness of his either.


    | guess I’m cheating a bit, watching his technique before we spar, but | can’t look away. For all his size and strength, he is grace


    in motion. There’s an elegance in his movements that you don’t normally see in warriors who expect to use their strength to


    defeat their enemy. As | watch, | see him pulling his punches with his weaker warriors. | do the same. You want them to learn and


    get better, not feel defeated by being beaten every day. However, he goes all out with his stronger warriors. Trevor gives him the


    toughest battle, but he still wins.


    Artemis begins purring in my head.


    ‘Really? Are you wasting your strength on watching Rik sparring? Shouldn’t you be resting or doing something to get your


    strength back?’ | ask my wolf, although I’m secretly happy to have her active in my head, even if it’s because she’s drooling over


    an Alpha.


    ‘Watching Alpha Rik makes me feel stronger. Maybe we should ask him to give us personal lessons, I’m sure I''d be feeling much


    better very quickly.”


    | shake my head in disbelief. “Artemis, are you kidding me? You''re crushing on our Alpha? And I’m not asking him to give you


    special sessions so you can “feel better“. Forget it.”


    She huffs at me. ‘If you loved me, you''d do it.’


    +IS BONO


    “Wrong! | do love you but I’m not making a fool of myself to Rik.’ She sits back in my head but continues to watch, purring softly.


    As we''ve been having our conversation, I''d lost track of time and realized btedly that the training had ended.


    | watch as Rik listens to dad’s feedback for every warrior. Just as he was about to turn to leave, he looked up into my window


    and right at me. His mouth tipped up at the edges in a small smile and he winked at me before turning and heading back toward


    the pack house.


    After the warriors leave, | head downstairs to make breakfast. Dades in and sees me in the kitchen. “Sweetheart, are you


    sure you should be doing that?”


    “Dad, I’m not an invalid. Yes, | know I’m still healing. I’m still sore, but | can make breakfast. | promise I''ll take it easy today.”


    “Ok, I’m going to shower and I''lle join you. Did you happen to see any of the training?”


    “| did. And | have to know, what did those poor warriors ever do to you?”


    He gives me a wicked smile. “Oh, | haven’t even started yet.” And he rubs hist hands together like some evil viin in an


    animated movie.


    |ugh. “I pity those poor unfortunate souls,” singing in Urs’s voice. Dad shes me a grin as he wheels himself into his room.


    My appointment is at 3pm. When we arrive at the pack hospital, | find out Dr. Harris not only wants to check my blood, but he


    wants to give me an IV while we wait for the results. He has a nurse draw my blood and hook up the IV, and Dad and | sit and


    wait.


    | decide to ask the question that Rik didn’t want to discussst night. “Dad, what don’t | know about Eli Gunnar?”


    Dad looks at me intently. “What makes you think there is something you don’t know?”


    “I''m not stupid Dad, something is going on, what is it?”


    Dad sighs and leans his head back, looking up at the ceiling. “I’m not sure | should be the one telling you, but | do think you


    should know.” He looks back down at me. “When you were taken and we realized that it was Eli that took you, Liam gave us


    some surprising information.”


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