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.”

angles of his face

He stood up even straighter like he was settling into the role

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

are we

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

session. Your only

dodging a hit was a relief, although I already

easy

had been a fluke – and probably not something I’d get

time.

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

lot of thought into my attack. I simply dove for him,

It didn’t.

stumbled past him instead. I managed to catch myself before I

cheeks still

“Try again.”

tried to land the hit on his

“Try again.”

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

breathing heavily.

finally said, “You proved my observation.” “And

what you’re doing.”

handed me a water bottle and I took

I shouldn’t be surprised you don’t have any fight training,” Ivan said, “You are

abilities,” I said, “I did attend

just not good training I

and it looked like he was mulling this new information

“Although it does make sense.” Chapter

explained, “Not a very well-trained wolf,

don’t think that’s supposed to be

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

But you’re not a wolf. You’re a human and you need to fight

fighting ‘like a human’ means. That’s kind of what

me a frustrated look, and I had a feeling he would’ve been yelling if he didn’t think

said, “You’ll always be at a disadvantage when you’re

will always be bigger and stronger. You can’t rely on brute force to beat them like a werewolf

other ways

“Like?” “Like

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

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whatever.”

or boxing matches, but

Remember our first sparring match? When you

certainly remembered kicking

For a moment. You surprised me. Had you been more of a trained fighter, you could have used that opening

a guy between the legs if

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

body. There are other pressure points you can

on his abdomen.

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

story. Head over there to dive into the

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

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