The Alpha's Mysterious Mate ( The Fate Series Book 1)

Serena's POV: 

Early in the morning, Edward asked Mrs.Brown to knock on my door and urge me to go to the training grounds outside the Maple House.Apparently, I was already late to the first day of my training.

"So, it seems that you aren't as diligent as I remembered, Serena,"

Edward said, with an expression that was mixed with disappointment and taunting.

What Peter and I did last night completely knocked me out.

Even though Edward was a year older than me, I could tell from the way he reacted that he didn't have a girlfriend.

"Don't worry.I promise I'll go to bed early tonight and get up early tomorrow.By the way, where is Uncle Phillip? I thought he was the one training me?"

"Phillip is not the only one who can teach you.If you must know, my skills make me more than qualified to be your teacher as well.Anyway, quit stalling.Let's start your training.Before we formally begin, we need to warm up and see what you can already do.First, let's see how your fighting skills have developed over time.I want to know if you've gotten better or worse from the last time we trained together."

When Edward and I were younger, Uncle Phillip would personally train the two of us, often pitting us against each other in a friendly competition.

In the training grounds, there were some items laid out on a table.

Some sticks, a few knives, and a single pan.

"You see those items from afar? Our first task is to control any of those from here."

With a wave of his hand, Edward had made the pan float up and suspended it in the air.

That left me with the knives and sticks.

Thinking that it would be dangerous if I lost control of the knives, I aimed at the wooden sticks.

I followed the motion that Edward made with his hand and did the same with mine.

The stick slightly trembled in its place, but it refused to move upward as I hoped it would.

Frustrated, I took a deep breath and tried again, focusing my energy onto my powers.

Slowly, the stick rose off of the table.

I marveled as it flew higher up, but once I lost my focus, it had fallen back down.

Just when it was about to hit the ground, it froze midair.

The stick hovered upward and landed itself back on the table, beside the pan.

I turned to Edward and saw that he was the one who was putting the stick back.

"I see what you're struggling with. You are strong, but you still don't know how to control that strength of yours."

I nodded, frowning in agreement.

Once again, I tried to control the stick, this time to pull it towards me.

All of a sudden, the stick swooped in my direction.

It was flying too fast, which meant that I had to avoid it if I didn't want to get skewered.

My instincts urged me to teleport somewhere else, but the stick followed me wherever I popped up, as if it was magnetized to me.

Teleporting multiple times was starting to exhaust me, decreasing my agility to evade the flying stick.

This time, I was too tired to teleport, but the stick was still zooming towards me.

defense when suddenly a hand caught the stick just before it

to see Peter's hand in

had been watching

my heart told me that he just could not leave me

small smile crept up on my lips and I chuckled to

on this one simple drill.If you really want your training to be productive, then you must simulate an actual fighting situation." Peter dropped the stick to

you take the knife.I'll

the table and tilted as if it was being held like a

Edward was ready.

afraid to unleash your full power, Serena.In case you

Phillip's voice echoed throughout the training

around and saw him with the

nodded at

the knife on the table

the flick of my wrist, the knife went flying

sent his

other, the impact causing my knife to spear

an extension of your own body.It's the same as telling your arm or hand what to do.That way, you'll be able to move it

to take my knife out of the tree when I

me and grabbed my hands,

contact with mine, I felt a unique coldness run through my body, one that only

summers when I would keep wrapping my arms around Edward because he was always cool to

My cheeks unconsciously blushed.

draw your power from a place of balance,

but I soon realized

would be lying if I

told myself that I would marry Edward when

I could see Edward's structured face in my peripheral

pretty eyelashes danced on his lids with every

a second, I felt my heart skip

another deep breath and followed his instructions as best as I

my eyes, I was able to pull the knife out of the trunk just like I had

smoothly on the

gently landed on the table, back in

this whole scene

cough was suddenly heard from

It was Peter.

I knew from his eyes that he was absolutely

Edward's hands were still on mine, I pulled

Edward? Can you teach me that, too?

her best not to show it,

teach you on another day.It might be less likely you could do it,

that...It would be worth it

to his side, glaring at Edward as if he was ready to eat him

tiger.He was just helping me control

playfully whispered

to see Peter get all worked up like this.I

here, it was Peter's turn to

see how your attack looks like.Make

"Alright, I'll try."

focused my energy on moving

much better and

finally understood what it meant when he said to make the

moved with me as if it was an extra arm and deflected