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

my eyes to see Peter's hand

had been watching me train

heart told me that he just could

crept up on my

spent too 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

getting there.Serena, you

table and tilted as if it

Edward was ready.

case you lose control, I will be here

Phillip's voice echoed throughout

turned around and saw him with the elders,

nodded at Uncle

Edward." I willed the knife on the table to

wrist, the knife

his pan in

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

the trick is to imagine the knife as 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 with

the tree when I heard Edward call out

me and grabbed my hands,

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

keep wrapping my arms around Edward because

My cheeks unconsciously blushed.

your energy on the knife.Make sure that you draw your power from a place of balance, or else you

blew on my ears, but I soon realized

lying if I

always told myself that I would marry Edward

Edward's structured

pretty eyelashes danced on

second, I felt my

followed his instructions as

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

smoothly on

graceful wave, the knife gently landed on the table, back in

about this whole scene felt quite

was suddenly heard

It was Peter.

looked blank, but I knew from his eyes

still on mine,

Can you teach me that, too? Maybe I

to show it, Patricia's face was as

day.It might be less likely you could do it, though, being a full blooded werewolf and all."

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

as we had gotten close, Peter instantly pulled me to his side, glaring at Edward as if he was ready

helping me control my

whispered

it was fun to see Peter get all worked up

that Edward was here, it was Peter's turn

Serena.Let's see how your attack looks like.Make me your

"Alright, I'll try."

Edward's notes in mind, I focused my energy on moving the

much better

he said to make the weapon an extension

knife moved with me as if it was an extra arm