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.

I have

he shrugged. “Just attack me.”

him,

but he shrugged, “I know you are but do

eyes at that, but let out a huff. “Or should I say, try to attack

words to add the word ‘try’

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

and I nodded and

pivoted to the left, and my fist hit the empty air.

hand at him, but

“Again”

abdomen instead of face this time. I could not touch him yet again.

swirling and jumping all in an effort to land a

given his huge size, but he was as sneaky as a cat. His reflexes

t-shirt sticking to my body as I tried

move anymore, I stopped while pushing the hair that had escaped the bun away from my face.

Lycan King smirking at me,

I grumbled, and he reached for a bottle to

the bottle and took two small sips before holding it in front

like a kangaroo and having my gamma keep

You are stronger than me. I bet you would be panting

his face widened, and I realized I had just given him more reason to amuse himself. Maybe

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

said the stupidest thing ever. “Of course, they will never

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

Good. I thought.

me imagine scandalous thoughts of him pinning me down on

annoyance. Before my fingers could curl around the

not done

him as he kept

I made an impatient noise, but he up on my feet and

had turned into a grin as I jumped and sprang all around him like

heels and showed as if I was still trying to reach for the bottle, but quickly went behind him and raised my hands

to sneakily grab the bottle from him. But that was barely for a second because the next second his hand went around my waist, grabbed me and plucked me off

was jumping around, my tee rode up a little, so when Callahan picked

been completely focused on the bottle so the unexpected touch

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

had curled on the sides and I had the mad urge to smoothen those and rustle his hair. His head was at my eye-level and those luscious

trying to ignore the way his fingers were still on

trying to look

second later, and he asked, “So, you give up?”

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