Danielle’s POVThe sound of steel hitting steel echoes through the underground cavern long before I even see him.It carries through the tunnel corridors, sharp, violent, and rhythmic as it had been these past few days.A series of training! Preparation for the wars ahead. The same ones breathing down our necks.I stand at the mouth of the training chamber, fingers curled tightly around the rough stone edge of the wall, watching him.Rhett moves like controlled fury.With his discarded skin slick with sweat. Muscles coiled and released, he strikes again and again against William, a surviving warrior, who barely manages to block him.“Again,” Rhett growls.William winces. “You need to pace yourself.”“I need them ready.”He lunges forward, faster this time, and William stumbles back; several warriors pause to watch.The air feels thick with tension right now, not just from exertion, but from knowing this isn’t routine.“Alpha,
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