Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

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.

have to

shrugged. “Just attack

that I stared at him,

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

eyes at that, but let out a

word ‘try’ and I did not miss that.

pulled my ponytail up in a tight bun and held my hands in front

He asked, and I nodded and threw a

simply pivoted to the left, and my fist hit the empty air.

at him, but even this time he ducked effortlessly.

“Again”

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

minutes or so, I kept kicking and punching, swirling and jumping all in an

as sneaky as a cat. His reflexes were

was panting and sweating, the t-shirt sticking to my body as I tried and tried,

pushing the hair that had escaped the bun away from

front of me was the Lycan King smirking at me, apparently highly pleased

no way to train,” I grumbled, and he reached for a bottle to slowly take a sip.

and took two small

hopping like a kangaroo and having my gamma keep a watch

would train me and you can see I am trying. But its not fair. You are stronger than me. I bet you would be panting if it was a one vs two battle. There is no

him more reason to amuse himself. Maybe he liked playing cat

and Matt to train with you. Maybe let them tackle you in a spar. Then let me see if you can

will never

words wiped off

Good. I thought.

imagine scandalous thoughts of him pinning me down

training,” He said bluntly, and I reached for the bottle while trying to hide my annoyance. Before my fingers could curl around the bottle, he pulled his hand up, making my eyes go

not done yet. I’jumped

him as he kept

noise, but he up on my feet and sprang up, throwing my hands pushing the bottle away from my

now the slow smile had turned into a grin as I jumped and sprang all around him like a little rabbit, but the wolf still held the carrot away from

a little. Thus, I kept bouncing on my heels and showed as if I was still trying to reach

him. But that was barely for a second

rode up a little, so when Callahan picked me up, his fingers brushed

focused on the bottle so the

my eyes locked with his. For a second, he just stood there, holding me up in his arms while staring me in the

rustle his hair. His head was at my eye-level and those luscious locks were urging me

blinked furiously, trying to ignore the way his fingers were

answered while trying to

second later, and he

put me down on the floor