The Alpha's Cursed Bride
Fresh, dark, and wrong.
I pressed my fingertip to it and drew it back.
Human blood. Fresh, warm
Someone had been standing outside my window.
Alena had me doing balance work by the end of the third day. Not combat balance, structural. The difference between a larger body's centre of gravity and mine, and how to use the discrepancy in my favour rather than fighting it. She used a term that I had not heard before and that she explained with the matter-of-factness of someone who considered it obvious: mechanical advantage through displacement. The idea that a smaller body, properly positioned, could redirect a larger body's momentum using the larger body's own weight as the force.
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