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.

in one hopeless act of defense when suddenly a hand caught the stick just before it touched

hand in front of me, clutching the

time, Peter had been watching me train

heart told me that he just could not leave me alone

small smile crept up on my lips and I chuckled

spent too much time on this one simple drill.If you really want your training to be productive, then you

getting there.Serena, you take the

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

Edward was ready.

Serena.In case you lose control, I will be here to

voice echoed throughout the training

saw him with the elders,

nodded

I willed the knife on the

flick of my wrist, the

also sent his

each other, the impact causing my knife to spear itself into one of

the same as telling your arm

take my knife out of the tree

grabbed my hands, demonstrating how to wave

I felt a unique coldness run

I would keep wrapping my

My cheeks unconsciously blushed.

energy on the knife.Make sure that you draw your power from a place of balance, or else you wouldn't

my ears, but

lying if I didn't

would marry

see Edward's structured face in

long, pretty eyelashes danced on his

a second, I felt my heart skip a

deep breath and followed his instructions as best

able to pull the knife out of the trunk just

glided smoothly on the air

knife gently landed on the table, back

this whole scene felt

was suddenly heard

It was Peter.

face looked blank, but I knew from his

Edward's hands were still

Can you teach me that, too? Maybe I

not to show it, Patricia's face was as red as

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

be worth it even if I didn't learn a single thing.’’ I stifled a laugh

instantly pulled me to his side, glaring at Edward as

me control

whispered in

it was fun to see Peter get all worked up like this.I had to deal with

here, it was Peter's

attack looks like.Make me

"Alright, I'll try."

I focused my

better and seamless

understood what it meant when he said to

me as if it was an extra arm and deflected the