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.

my arms in one hopeless act of defense when suddenly a hand caught the stick

see Peter's hand

Peter had been watching me train and

my heart told me that he just could not

on my lips and

much time 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

were just getting there.Serena, you take

pan levitated from the table and tilted as if it was being

Edward was ready.

to unleash your full power, Serena.In case you lose control, I will be here to

Phillip's voice echoed

and saw him with

try," I nodded at

willed the knife on the

wrist, the knife went flying straight to

also sent his pan

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

own body.It's the same as telling your arm or hand what to do.That way, you'll

was jogging to take my knife out of the tree when I heard Edward

me and grabbed my hands, demonstrating

I felt a unique coldness

to the hot summers when 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 be able to control

my ears, but I

be lying if I didn't say it felt

myself that I would marry Edward

Edward's structured face

danced on his

a second, I felt my heart skip a

and followed his instructions

was able to pull the knife out of

smoothly on the

graceful wave, the knife gently landed

about this whole scene

was suddenly heard

It was Peter.

I knew from

were still on mine,

me that, too? Maybe I can

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

could do it, though, being a full blooded werewolf

arms like that...It would be worth it even if I

glaring at Edward as if he was

just helping me control my powers.Don't

playfully whispered

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

Edward was here, it was

attack looks

"Alright, I'll try."

mind, I focused my

much better

it meant when he said to

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