Chapter 80

Zenovia

Callahan was standing close to me, too close. His breath tickled my ear when he whispered that.

His strong scent filled my nostrils, and it made me feel giddy. His cologne was just as mouthwatering as him.

I tried not to show how much him being close affected me, and I gulped before I found my voice.

“Alright”

I felt proud of the way my voice did not tremble as he slowly stepped

away.

“You do have strength. We have to work on your stamina. And the fact that you worked out for almost 2 hours without grumbling tells me that your first shifting, though incomplete, helped.”

Helped? How?

I looked up at him in confusion. Those golden eyes looked pools of honey as they caught the sunlight peeking in through the window slits.

My question must have been obvious in the way I stared at him, because he answered,

“No ordinary human should be able to withstand such strenuous workout on their first day, not without a wolf, if only barely”

He offered, but that confused me even more.

“You think humans are too weak and fragile?” I muttered, but he was not offended by the remark.

“By no means, I said humans are weak. I just meant it would take a lot of time and effort to build stamina and endurance. That is why young girls and boys have to start training early. So that they have a good physical body that would be able to withstand

Pase Pressure of shifting when their

wolf first shows up. Even then, a dr

Wait.

few

Out.”

Did that mean he had only been pushing me to test my limits? To help me become strong sooner?

If that was the case, he had a very crude way of achieving that. Not to

mention I had not forgotten how he said he did not want any weaklings in the pack.

do I have to do?”

and he shrugged. “Just attack me.”

at him, open mouthed. “I

he shrugged, “I know you are but do

a huff. “Or should I say, try to attack me.”

words to add the word ‘try’ and

the challenge, I pulled my ponytail up in a tight bun and held my hands in

nodded and threw a fist.

simply pivoted to the left, and my fist hit the

the other hand at him, but even

“Again”

my hand back and aimed a punch at his abdomen instead of face

kept kicking and punching, swirling and jumping all in an effort to land a hit on him.

but he was as sneaky as a

t-shirt sticking to my body as I tried and tried, but could not

pushing the hair that had escaped the bun away from

the Lycan King smirking

is no way to train,” I grumbled, and he reached for a bottle to slowly take

his lips to the bottle and took two small sips

ever by just hopping like a kangaroo and having my

and you can see I am trying. But its not fair. You are stronger than me. I bet you would be panting if

I had just given him more reason to amuse himself. Maybe he liked playing cat and mouse

in a spar. Then let me see if you can handle

they will never try to push you down and

I saw that my words wiped off the smile from his face.

Good. I thought.

thoughts of him pinning me down on the floor

said bluntly, and I reached for the bottle while trying to hide my annoyance. Before my fingers could curl around

not done

him as

and sprang up, throwing my hands

into a grin as I jumped and sprang all around him like a little rabbit,

another means and trick him a little. Thus, I kept bouncing on my heels and showed as if I was still trying to reach for the bottle, but quickly went behind him and raised my hands

the bottle from him. But that was barely for a second because the

my tee rode up a little, so when Callahan picked me up, his fingers brushed my bare skin.

the unexpected touch startled me, making me gasp

up at me, and my eyes locked with his. For a second, he just stood there, holding me up in his arms while staring me

urge to smoothen those and rustle his hair. His head was at my eye-level and those luscious locks

furiously, trying to ignore the way his

trying to look

returned a second later, and he asked, “So,

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