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 to

shrugged.

at him, open

automatically, but he shrugged, “I know you are but do as

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

corrected his words to add the word ‘try’ and I did not miss

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

He asked, and I nodded and threw a fist.

my fist hit the empty air. “Again”

threw the other hand at him, but even this time he ducked

“Again”

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

the next twenty minutes or so, I kept kicking and punching, swirling and jumping all in

size, but he was as sneaky as a cat.

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

I could not move anymore, I stopped while pushing the hair

the Lycan King smirking at me, apparently highly

to train,” I grumbled, and he reached

bottle and took two

would ever by just hopping like

But its not fair. You are stronger than me. I bet you would be panting if it

smirk on his face widened, and I realized I had just given him more reason to amuse himself. Maybe he liked playing cat and mouse with me. “You think so?” He asked,

in a spar. Then let me see if

I had said the stupidest thing ever. “Of course, they will never try to push you down and go easy on you because you are their King”

saw that my words wiped off

Good. I thought.

scandalous thoughts of him pinning me down on

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

not done yet. I’jumped

him as he

an impatient noise, but he up on my feet and sprang up, throwing my hands

now the slow smile had turned into a grin as I jumped and sprang all around him like

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

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

tee rode up a little, so

had been completely focused on the bottle so the

For a second, he just stood there, holding me

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

trying to ignore the

I answered while trying to look

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

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