Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

Chapter 82

Zenovia

I gulped nervously.

There was no point in hiding anymore, so I slowly stepped out of my hiding spot. Callahan’s gaze was intense, and I saw the way he looked up at me from head to toe.

Maybe he was checking if I had skipped a workout because he was not around. My clothes and the hair plastered to my temples should be enough proof that I had diligently worked out even if he was not around.

Elijah waved at me upon seeing me, while Matt only gave an acknowledging nod. Callahan’s gamma and beta were the exact opposites.

Matt just felt like a mini version of Callahan sometimes.

Callahan looked at the two soldiers and said, “People don’t believe I play fair, and I can tackle the two of you simultaneously. So, go change, we are going to have a little spar.”

My eyes went wide at those words. He had not taken my name, but I knew it was directed at me.

“Who is mad enough to say that?” Matt asked, but Callahan shrugged.

“People think it is easy to become a King and rule a kingdom. Sometimes you have to answer those doubts. Are you ready for a spar?”

He asked them both.

This was a silly act. If his pride was hurt by my words, he could have just snapped at me like he always did.

Why did he have to put up a show? Especially with all the pack members around. Elder Lina would simply tear me apart if she learned I was the reason her lunch had been delayed.

“Uh, but we have the entire pack in the garden. They expect lunch to be served soon, King” Elijah tried to reason, but Callahan shook his head.

“The fight won’t last long either way. Let’s go outside”

He said without looking at me and stepped out of the main door and climbed down the short flight of stairs.

Elijah and Matt-only looked at each other but did not say anything. They just went upstairs to keep the file in the office, as it was something important.

That left me staring at the broad back of Callahan. Seeing that there was nobody around, I went near him and murmured,

“Uh,

you don’t have to do this. I was just annoyed when I said that.”

But Callahan only rolled up his sleeves.

my pack question my strength and let it slide, it will make more people question my leadership. Not the first time that this is happening,

when he called me the weakest member of his pack, but it was not as if I could deny it. But what got me wondering were his next words of

was enough to tell me that he had slept over that fact and my remark had hit a nerve. Callahan was mysterious, and I knew nothing about his personal life or much about the pack members, either. And nobody told me much when I asked anyone

he pulled me away from the entrance and I felt my back softly hit

wall.

from the eyes of others who were at the far end of the front yard.

His eyes had a certain glow to it, a fire that seemed to rage inside

the spar, you would

at his perfect face, and my fingers

and subject, so he could order me to do whatever he wanted either way. “W-what?” I asked nervously, stuttering like a

eyes darken just a little. He licked his dry lips and the breeze flowing through the garden reached us, carrying his intoxicating scent to

I leaned forward just a little, our lips would brush. He seemed to have read

desire

could lean forward, he pulled himself away and muttered, “I

“But-”

backward glance. And I just stayed plastered to the wall, panting due to the

had barely grazed my arms, but it had

down, a voice asked,

but had not bothered changing

my hair behind my ear and

It has been a while since we three had

meekly as I walked with Elijah and

like a walk of shame to me as everybody was staring at us as if we were the culprits…or maybe Callahan had told them that it was me who had doubted his leadership.

turned to me, and his pack members were all seated around a huge

like a circle, which would

others, so I quickly settled in one of the chairs her, trying to hide from her as much

men stepped inside the circular arena, and

away from

have gone a little rusty. If they both manage to overwhelm me, I would gladly

those last words, his eyes subtly flicked to me.

me in a crowd of thousands of people without any

asked and

pack will be the

away from me and he turned to look at his beta and gamma,

at Callahan, who did not move until

to throw him off, but Callahan jumped up and did a roll midair, and landed back on the ground in