The Alpha King's Human Mate by HC Dolores

The Alpha King’s Human Mate

Chapter 68 Chapter 68

“Pain was the body’s way of telling them they’d pushed themselves to their limits — which was exactly where they were

supposed to be.”

Richard Marcinko

True to his word, my first training session with Ivan began later that week. Although I knew he was going to teach me

self-defense, I had no real idea what that entailed. I’d never taken private lessons before, and certainly not with anyone of

Ivan’s caliber. Would he be a harsh teacher? He had seemed pretty strict the first time I stumbled upon him yelling at a

room of young wolves.

Griffin did threaten him pretty heavily though.

Ivan had only given me two instructions for our first session: dress comfortably and have one of the guards to escort me

to the second training room in the East Wing at 3PM sharp.

His directions were easy to follow. I’d dressed in sweats that didn’t restrict my movement and had asked one of the

guards stationed outside of Griffin’s suite to escort me.

When we arrived at the open wooden door, the guard didn’t linger. He simply nodded at Ivan, bowed his head to me,

and left. Chapter 68

Ivan stood in the center of the room, standing tall with his arms behind his back. “Please come in, Your Majesty.” The way

he addressed me was completely different than it was the first time we met. He had been nothing but mockery and

arrogance the first time we met.

Today, he was stiff and respectful — like he was afraid that looking at

me wrong might cost him his life. (7 Unfortunately, it wasn’t a completely irrational fear.

I strolled into the room, the door banging shut behind me. My eyes roamed over my surroundings – this training room

was much smaller than the one I’d first seen him in. It was still spacious with big mats covering the floor and large

windows that filtered natural light into the

room. “This room is designated for private lessons,” Ivan told me. “Do you do a lot of private lessons?”

“Not often,” he said. He still looked stiff and uncomfortable, and I

noticed that he avoided eye contact with me.

“I don’t know what your typical teaching style is,” I said, “But you don’t have to look so…uneasy. I’m not going to turn

you into Griffin if | end

up with a paper cut.”

didn’t respond to that, but the sharp angles of his face seemed

stood up even straighter like he was settling

session, | made a

we testing

you to see if you can land a hit on me,” he explained. “You don’t have to worry about me striking

sparring session. Your

need to worry about dodging a hit was a

an easy target to

ever managed to land on him had been a fluke – and probably not something I’d get away with

time.

moved to the center of the large mat. Once we’d positioned ourselves a couple of feet apart, Ivan gestured for me to

my attack. I simply dove for him, my

It didn’t.

me, and | stumbled past him instead. I managed to catch myself before I fell

my cheeks still

“Try again.”

did. This time, I tried to land the hit on his stomach, but he dodged

“Try again.”

attempts ~ both failures. By the time he’d dodged the fourth attack,

breathing heavily.

enough,” Ivan finally said, “You proved my observation.” “And what observation is that?”

what you’re doing.”

I said. Ivan handed me a water bottle and I

don’t have any fight training,”

fighting abilities,” I said, “I did attend a bunch of warrior training classes back home. So

training, just not good

like he was mulling this new information over.

does make sense.” Chapter 68 “What do you

he explained, “Not a very

that’s supposed to

as fast as a wolf,” Ivan continued,

You’re a human and you need to fight like

what fighting ‘like a human’ means. That’s kind of what I thought I was doing until

and I had a feeling he would’ve been

be at a disadvantage when you’re fighting a wolf —

You can’t rely

are other ways you

“Like?” “Like fighting dirty and aiming for sensitive

water bottle and Ivan placed it aside. “I thought ‘fighting

etiquette or Chapter 68

whatever.”

boxing matches, but in this world,

sparring

smiling sheepishly. I certainly remembered kicking

surprised me. Had you been more of a trained fighter, you could have used that opening to incapacitate

kick a

time,” he said, “But if it’s an option, you should take it. The groin is one of the

There are other pressure points

front of me, Ivan placed his hand on his abdomen.

reminder that if you’re not reading this book on n??el5s.com,

over there to dive into the next

he didn’t move away, I shot

area you just punched,” he said after I’d struck him, “Is where the kidney is – right below the