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I stepped into the training Arena feeling all hyped and at the same time nervous and shit. At least, a thousand men and women were watching from their seat. Today happens to be the annual fighting contest held among the pack members for those intending to join the warrior wolves. They are given a chance to prove themselves against an opponent in a fair fight.
It was more like a ritual where one physical strength and perseverance is tasted before he or she is tagged with the warrior stamp. I wasn't left out of the competition either.
My opponent is a young girl about my age even though she look a lot older and far more stronger with ripped muscles than I could ever come to have. From the look in her eyes, it was obvious she has been waiting for this very moment her whole life and just can't wait to get me out of her way.
I have watched her spar with most of the male warriors even before now while stealing short glance
*I returned back to my room feeling sore and totally bruised after Lily had finished dressing the cut on my arm.With scuffling feet and tensed shoulders, I continued to drag my way to the bathroom and slipped out of my soiled clothes before turning on the heat in the water as high as possible. My eyes darted towards the mirror on the wall after a while and found it covered with steam evaporating from the water already and sighed.I wasn't exactly sure if I wanted to see my own reflection because I was sure that I'd be looking a total mess.I took another sigh and let my hands do the thinking for me as it reached over and wiped it slightly with my left palm,and almost cringed at the face staring right back at me.Damn, I looked almost anything but myself. Bruised cheeks and cracked lips and dark visible circle around the eyes seemed like the new appealing features on my body not to mention how awful I feel on the inside.
*A moment passed by without either of us doing anything to take the kiss a bit further. We just sat there on the floor with our lips attached to one another yet unmoving as if waiting to be told what to do next.So damn awkward I tell you.And Just when i thought about pulling away, I heard him gave a low throaty growl before i felt his hand cupping the back of my neck gently and pulled me closer, his lips starting to more than move hungrily against mine and I just let him.I let him kiss me because i wanted to know what it feels like to be kissed by someone again and who better than Carlos. I know he has been itching to do it all evening just like my wolf can't wait to give in to the mate craving as well.Letting myself relax completely, i leaned in further into his warmth with my eyes closed while trying to savor this very moment as much as I still could. The familiar feeling was seating right there at the pit of
Dressed in my training outfit of black jogger and plain armless T-shirt. I pulled my hair up in a tight ponytail with a band and then slipped on my ankle boots that was starting to wear out already. I quickly tied the shoelace into place before heading out to meet Silas and the others.I followed Silas to the pack's armory room housing a vast set of weapons to equip myself for the hunt.My eyes settled on the familiar bow hanging on the wall and I immediately went for it. I picked a quiver filled with arrows and hung it on my back before reaching for a black leather gloves as well.Satisfied with my items, I turned to walk away but paused in my next hasty step when I noticed a short blade with black leather handle lying across the wooden table and picked it up.It was light yet warm and rough around the edges but fit right into my palm like it was made just for me. There was something intriguing about the blade that makes it different
*"Are you avoiding me?"I groaned internally at his question."No I wasn't and am not avoiding you right now either.. I just need to go shower because I smell horrible" I told him while gesturing to my cloth that was stained with animal blood from the hunt.Carlos practically sniffed the air around me at my word before replying."Yeah maybe you do need a bath but that doesn't change the fact that, i still think you were avoiding me" he paused and took a step closer, his head cocked slightly to the side and studying me."Were you actually avoiding me?"I gave a mental roll of my eye and replied with a careless shrug, "I don't know Carlos. How about you tell me"He shifted from one foot to the next, before his hand reached out and held mine."Is it because of the kiss?"I said nothing in replied and he squeezed my hand a little. "Say something Ava. Are you avoiding me because of the kiss?"I le
Carlo's POV.I hate to admit it but I really made a silly mistake. I never should have given in and kissed Avalon that night the way I did but one look at her and i couldn't hold back. Those lips of hers were practically calling out to me even though I knew I was overstepping my boundary and probably putting our friendship to jeopardy, I still couldn't resist her charms nor my own selfish desires.Lilly doesn't deserve a mate like me. She should have gotten someone else. Someone with a lot of self control and not someone like me who still secretly wished to be mated to his ex.Yes I know how selfish that makes me sound but that's just the truth. I thought Avalon and I were going to be mate but the moon goddess had other plans. Plans I never saw coming or could run away from and found myself stuck with it.The day I found out I was mated to Lily felt like a scattered dream. It was not what I expected but it was what came to be and could not be contested an
*Ava's POVI stirred awake slowly with a lazy yawn and a half body stretch. I could feel the soft fabric of bed sheet tucked around me. I opened my eyes and had them shut just as quickly as i tried to adjust to the attack of sunlight directly on my face.I wasn't sure where I was when my eyes finally settled and began to dart across the room cautiously in search of anything familiar that could ring a bell that I was in a familiar zone or back in my room at the pack house but got nothing.Aside from the large bed I was lying on, the room was totally plain with just a single arm chair seating in front of a wooden table at the corner. A sea green curtain shielding the room from much sunlight was pulled slightly to the side and allowing just about enough to slip through into the room.I also noticed my black ankle boots arranged neatly beside the same table by the corner, and not very far from where I laid on the bed.Where the heck am I?
*I sat at the foot of the bed still breathing hard, my hair a wild mess and covering part of my face. I blew a few strains away from my face, my eyes narrowing around in total annoyance.My wolf was just as restless if not more wound up than I was. Aside from the earlier purring at the side of our mate, now she is upset he wants us to leave as if, we begged him to bring us here in the first place.He doesn't know how much of a favor he has done for us, just by bringing us here. He has absolutely no freaking idea.There was blood stain all over the bed from the fight with Logan. I wanted so badly to be pleased that, the blood was from Logan but a great deal of me still felt like shit just staring down at the sight of it.I wasn't supposed to feel remorse or sorry for hurting him but it turns out, my heart was hurting just as much as the pain he must have been feeling but then again, I know that, feeling all that emotions and let
*With my nails buried deep into the flesh around Gia's shoulders, i yank her off just as quickly and sent her flying across the room and she went crashing into the nearby table before dropping to the floor with a grunt."Jesus Christ woman, what the heck is wrong with you?" I heard Logan yelled at me before rushing to help Gia off the floor.I hesitated for a moment, my brow raised in confusion at the voice again because it doesn't sound anything like Logan's voice, even though his body size and scent are that of Logan.I took a step closer to him, trying to make out his face in the slightly dim room, and loosing concentration only for a moment before I found myself crashing to the floor when Gia smashed right into my right rib hard and knocked me to the floor.I groaned from the impact and rolled on to my back, my arms immediately going up to shield my face from the impact of her fist when i felt her weight seating on me b