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,

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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.”

sharp angles of his face

finally said, clearing his throat. He stood up even straighter like he was settling into the

our first sparring session, | made a few observations that I’d like to test

are we

land a hit on me,” he explained. “You don’t have to worry

Your only objective

need to worry about dodging a hit was a relief,

easy target to

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

time.

we’d positioned ourselves a couple of feet

simply dove for

It didn’t.

| stumbled past him instead. I managed to catch myself

cheeks still

“Try again.”

I tried to land the

“Try again.”

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

breathing heavily.

proved my observation.” “And what observation is that?”

what you’re doing.”

no kidding,” I said. Ivan handed me a water bottle

have any fight training,” Ivan said, “You are

did attend a bunch of warrior training classes back

not

and it looked like he was mulling this new information over.

make sense.” Chapter 68 “What

a wolf,” he explained, “Not a very well-trained

that’s supposed to be a

fast as a wolf,” Ivan continued, “Those attacks might’ve

But you’re not a wolf. You’re a human and you

kind of what I thought I was doing until you said

I had a feeling he would’ve been yelling if he

always be at a disadvantage when you’re fighting a

will always be bigger and stronger. You can’t rely on brute force to

ways you can

than you.” ‘) “Like?” “Like fighting dirty and aiming for sensitive

back the water bottle and Ivan placed it

etiquette or Chapter 68

whatever.”

eyes. “Maybe in human movies or boxing matches, but in this

first sparring match? When you kicked

remembered kicking

of fighting dirty,” he said, “And it worked too. For a moment. You surprised me. Had you been more of a trained fighter, you could have used that

should just aim to kick a guy

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

body. There are other pressure points you can target too. I’ll

placed his hand on his abdomen. “Hit me here. Aim your

reminder that if you’re not reading this book on n𝘰𝚟el5s.com, you might be missing out on

dive

moment, but when he didn’t move away, I shot my fist out. Ivan didn’t even

after I’d struck him, “Is where the kidney is –