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“How could he sleep after doing such things? I don’t think I will ever be able to sleep without seeing his image burned in my head” Sierra says.
“Not that sleep comes easy anyway” I mutter knowing how badly we are plagued with the nightmares of our own memories. Sierra waits a while before quietly creeping out from under the bed. The moment she does, we realise his snoring stopped and she turns to look over her shoulder and she nearly jumps out of her fur when she spots Andrei watching her, but he makes no move to touch her but she is frozen in fear. Her heart rate flutters so fast and I feel our fur suddenly stand on end, her tail tucking between her legs and Andrei’s eyes dart to it.
“If you let me explain” Andrei says softly, his voice snapping her out of her fear shocked state and she growls at him in warning.
“If I wanted to hurt you I would have already Sierra, I won’t hurt Sage” He says before rolling on his back.
“You start training at 6 am, with the rest of the pack I suggest you sleep” He says closing his eyes. The
Moment his eyes close Sierra darts from the room and races downstairs. We wandered around the house as she looked for an escape but this place was a concrete fortress and there is no escape, we knew this already yet she still insisted on trying to find one. Every time she moved past the basement door she stopped looking at it. We could hear nothing down there and we didn’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. Eventually giving up she moves into the living room and jumps up on the couch. It was 5 A.M. now.
“Training means we have to go outside” She says, thinking of ways to escape as she shuts her eyes. I feel her thoughts becoming sleepy and I wait for her to start drifting before both of us plunge into darkness, her thoughts no longer racing and I sigh giving in to sleep with her knowing she still has a good grip on control even while asleep.
The beeping of an alarm echoing through the house has her jolting as she looks up and around the room and we hear the locks on the front door groaning before it swings open, Zane’s scent wafting to us as he walks inside. Sierra gets up jumping off the lounge just as Zane appears in the entryway of the living room.
“Luna, ” He says, walking into the kitchen. I hear him rummaging around before hearing footsteps upstairs, the alarm shutting off. Sierra shakes out her fur stretching her back and legs. I felt exhausted and so did she. We shouldn’t have spent so much time looking for an escape. Andrei walked downstairs and I could smell fresh coffee wafting into the living room from the kitchen.
Sierra’s belly growls hungrily.
“Just give me control, ” I tell her and she sighs knowing she has no choice, not if she wants out of the house. She suddenly starts shifting.
“Not here, I will be naked” I shrieked at her but she didn’t listen and I could feel her exhaustion seeping into me as it took longer for her to shift just as Andrei walked into the living room to find me crouched on the floor.
“Is that you Alpha?” Zane says and I hear him walking toward the living room and Andrei looks over his shoulder.
“Stay in the kitchen Zane” Andrei says looking over his shoulder before I hear Zane stop and I let out a breath. Andrei reaches over his head with one hand tugging his shirt off and tossing it at me.
“You don’t shift in front of other people, Sage only me” Andrei says and I shake my head intending to tell him I didn’t and there is no way in hell I was willing to get naked in front of anyone let alone random men.
“Get dressed and come into the kitchen” He says as I slip on his shirt. He then turns and walks off toward the kitchen where Zane is.
I stand up looking out the living room door toward the kitchen and see him disappear into the kitchen before I rush up the steps to the bedroom before finding some clothes and slipping them on. Sierra I could feel was blocking me out or sleeping. I wasn’t sure because she was so on edge it was hard to know if she was awake or sleeping. I felt her nervousness despite her blocking me out of her thoughts.
“Sierra?” I ask her as I slip on the grey tights before walking into the bathroom. I grab the toothbrush
Andrei gave me and quickly brush my teeth. I hear the front door open as I am rinsing my mouth of the toothpaste. I look around for a hair tie seeing as shifting I lost mine somewhere. Giving up, I walked downstairs and into the kitchen and Andrei was leaning on the bench with a cup of coffee in his hand yet Zane was no longer in sight and it must have been him that left the house while I was in the bathroom. Andrei slides a coffee cup over to me and a plate with toast on it. He then moves and I watch as he moves closer before slipping a hair tie off his wrist and standing behind me. He runs his fingers through my hair before pulling it up into a ponytail securing it with the hair tie. He then steps away.
“We leave in ten minutes” He says before walking out of the kitchen. I grab my coffee and plate and sit at the table and quickly eat. He didn’t seem angry, just seemed like he was trying to give me space, yet
Sierra was petrified of him for some reason. It came on so suddenly that it confused me, making me wonder what my wolf was hiding from me. The fact that she retreated to the back of my mind had me anxious like she couldn’t bear to be forward while he was present. I try to pull on her and move the veil separating us but she slams it back in place.
“Sage! ” Andrei calls just as I finish eating. I hopped up quickly dumping my plate and cup in the sink on the way past before finding Andrei waiting at the front door which was open. He then turns his back on me and walks out the door waiting just off the side of it.
As soon as I walk outside I feel Sierra stir peering out my eyes. Stepping past Andrei he suddenly grabs my elbow jerking me back to his side. He then closes the door with his other hand. Once the door is closed, his hand slides down my arm as he grabs my hand in his.
” I didn’t mean to scare your wolf” He says as he starts walking toward the road. I looked up at him but his eyes were straight ahead. I didn’t understand what he meant by that, I saw him and yes the sight of him was petrifying yet I still didn’t understand her cold fear of him.
“What do you mean?” I ask him and he looks down at me.
“She didn’t tell you?” He asks his brows furrowing and so do mine trying to figure out what he was talking about. He shakes his head looking ahead again.
“I’m sure she will,” he says, swallowing before pulling me between some houses and toward a small hill. Walking through the small village-like town I noticed that every house has roller shutters, every house has alarms and solar power, and every house was built solid like his. All impenetrable, making me wonder how bad the attack was on the pack because there weren’t many houses yet I could see the burnt down remains where houses used to be because the ground was black in places and new grass slowly growing back through the scorched earth.
Once we got to the top of the hill I found a paddock, on the other side of the paddock was the forest.
Around 5o or 6o men were in the paddock training and sparring with each other. Some were running laps of the huge circular field that had been mowed into the paddock. I swallow seeing so many half naked men fighting and training. Yet it wasn’t what I expected. Most training grounds I had seen from afar as we passed pack territories, they used mats and safety gear and equipment. Here they trained with bare knuckles and the ground was what they hit when taken down. No equipment, just their hands and brute force, no punching bags they used each other instead.
Some men were bleeding and the brutality of it as they unleashed on their own pack members like they were fighting to the death. I gulp looking up at Andrei. He didn’t expect me to fight them did he? There was no way I would stand a chance against any of them. Some were even fighting in their wolf form tearing each other to shreds.
I stop taking a step back. Andrei stops looking at me before looking at his men belting the living daylights out of each other. “They won’t hurt you” he says and I knew he wouldn’t let them hurt me but it doesn’t mean they won’t unintentionally. I shake my head.
“I don’t want to train with them” I tell him and pressed his lips in a line looking at them.
“You’re safe here” He says but he wasn’t understanding.
“No I don’t want to train like that, I didn’t think you actually beat each other bloody” I tell him horrified as
I watch Zane on top of another man bringing his fists down on him while the man beneath him tried to block him while punching into his ribs and trying to get him off.
“You’re only just starting, nobody will be training with you except me and I am not going to hurt you
Sage, just training” He says, tugging me off to the side away from them and toward the forest. I felt eyes on us as we moved away from everyone making me very aware of the fact I am the only woman here. When he stops in the shade of the forest I freeze as Sierra steps forward taking control for a second making me tense as I look at the forest.
Andrei sits on the grass. I took an unwilling step toward the forest as I fought against Sierra for control.
“Sage?” Andrei says and I take a breath in realising I was holding it.
” It’s not me ” I tell him through gritted teeth. I wondered what was up with her. We had finally decided to stay and she wanted to, yet now she wanted to flee our mate.
“Run Sierra and I will chase, I don’t mind the cardio” Andrei says. I feel her recede blocking me out again and I stumble forward as she releases control.
“What did you do to her?” I ask him. “Not me but Donnie, and he didn’t realise until it was too late and we saw you on the stairs” he says patting the grass beside him.
“Realise what?” I ask him.
“Their bond is stronger than ours because they talk constantly, if she becomes to flighty Sage, I may have to mark you”
“What?” I squeak out.
“Donnie didn’t realise his link to her was open. I didn’t realise either because obviously I have not marked you and we aren’t pack linked but our wolves can still talk to each other. Donnie was talking to her most of the night until you fell asleep but he likes listening to her thoughts while she is asleep and even while asleep she hasn’t blocked him for some reason. Most of the time when someone is asleep you can’t get in their head but he can with Sierra. He forgot and when I was in the basement she could hear everything I was doing through him and I think he may have triggered her” Andrei explains and I feel bile rise in my throat at his words. He starts stretching and I copy what he does thinking about what he said. Once done he stands and I look at his men on the field. “I’m not going to train you like that,
Sage ” he says.
“Do you train like that with them?” I ask him. “That’s how we always train, ” he answers.
“Most packs have safety equipment and mats” I tell him.
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