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 do?”

asked, and he shrugged.

at him, open mouthed. “I am

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

let out a huff. “Or should I say, try to attack me.”

corrected his words to add the word ‘try’ and I did not miss that.

for the challenge, I pulled my ponytail up in a tight bun and held my hands in front

nodded and threw

left, and my fist hit the

ordered, and I threw the other hand at him, but even this

“Again”

my hand back and aimed a punch at his abdomen instead of face this time. I could not touch him

I kept kicking and punching, swirling and jumping

have been easy given his huge size, but he was as sneaky as a cat. His reflexes

was panting and sweating, the t-shirt sticking to my body as I tried and tried, but could not hit him.

I could not move anymore, I stopped while pushing the hair that had escaped the bun away from

me was the Lycan King

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

put his lips to the bottle and took two small sips

than you would ever by just hopping like a kangaroo and having my

you would train me and you can see I am trying. But its not fair. You are stronger than me. I bet

smirk on his face widened, and I realized I had just given him more reason to amuse himself. Maybe he liked playing cat and mouse with me. “You think so?” He asked, and I snapped,

you. Maybe let them tackle you in a spar. Then let me

ever. “Of course, they will never try to push you down and go easy on you because you are

words

Good. I thought.

of

for the bottle while trying to hide my annoyance.

not done yet. I’jumped

as he kept

noise, but he up on my feet and sprang up, throwing my hands

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 my reach.

and trick him a little. Thus, I kept bouncing on my heels and showed as if I was still trying to reach for the bottle, but quickly went behind him and raised my

when I tried to sneakily grab the bottle from him. But that was barely for a second because the next second his hand went around my waist, grabbed me and plucked me off the floor.

was jumping around, my tee rode up a little, so when Callahan picked me up, his

completely focused on the bottle so the unexpected touch

at me, and my eyes locked with his. For a second, he just stood there, holding me up in

hair.

He asked, and I blinked furiously, trying to ignore

trying

returned a second later, and he asked,

gently put me down