Chapter 27

The morning came and I’m up staring at my ceiling lost in thought. Last night I had a beautiful intimate moment with my mate. I am happy I did it but the insecurities are starting to creep up on me again. I can’t help but wonder if he didn’t like it or if I did something wrong. I am so inexperienced in this subject but it he didn’t seem disappointed last night.
I look at my clock and see I have an hour to get ready for training and I remember Im going to train with him today. I shove off my covers and go to my dresser and grab a black sports bra and a pair of spandex. I throw off my pajamas and pull on my training gear. I go into my bathroom and empty myself and after that I pull a brush through my bed head hair. I smooth my blond locks into a French braid and quickly brush my teeth.
I leave my bathroom and grab my small bag and phone then make my way down stairs. Upon entering the kitchen I’m greeted by many familiar faces. However one Is giving a knowing and smug look. Celeste Is sitting and talking with Aiden and Atlas. She sees me come in and turns her attention towards me.
“So, you gonna tell me before I tell you what I heard last night?” I hear her voice in my head and a sly smile appears on her face.
“Oh god, you heard all that?” I roll my eyes and respond to her mind-link.
“Yup. If you didn’t want to be overheard you should of taken it into your room. Then again, if it were taken in there, I don’t think it would have just ended in a hot make out session.” She giggles knowingly. This causes my face to heat up and I face palm myself.
“Girl, no comment.” I tell her. This causes her to holler with laughter and the boys look at us with confused looks.
“I don’t think I want to know.” Atlas rolls his eyes and looks at his best friend.
“It’s probably guy talk. Judging by all the expressions Athena is making.” Aiden says and put a hand over his face in disgust. “Now I really don’t want to know.” I look over to Aiden and see his eyes are back to that obsidian black, but he’s not acting weird. Odd, if he’s taking his herbs their shouldn’t be an issue. I better keep an eye on him.
Then Silas and Alaric enter the room. Both are in shorts and shirtless. They are ready to head to the training grounds. I turn towards them and I am greeted by a warm smile from my mate.
“Morning, Angel.” He approaches me and places a hand on my head.
“M-morning.” I try to keep my smile from wavering. After being flustered by Celestes comment, I can’t look at him with a straight face. Knowing someone heard the moment we had is pure embarrassing.
“So, you ready to kick my ass today?” He says with a grin.
“Absolutely.” I giggle. I turn and grab a banana walnut muffin from the island along with a water bottle. I take a seat next to Celeste and Silas takes the one next to me.
“What are we going to do for training today? Did you and Altas figure out a plan?” I turn my attention to Aiden and ask.
“Yea, we’re going to work on using our powers in human form and then wolf form. We need learn about every aspect of them and learn to fully control them.” He explains without looking me in the eye. Then turns his attention to Silas and Alaric. “You guys can also use this opportunity to learn about our gifts. We would also like to learn more about your fighting styles to help us learn more about how to defeat the rogues.”
“Sure, we’ll help in any way we can.” My mate nods to my brother.
We all finish eating and we head out of the pack house. We begin to walk to the training grounds and Silas and I walk a little ways from everyone else.
“You’ve been rather quiet this morning.” Silas decides to break the silence.
“Really? I didn’t notice.” I say slightly blushing. He chuckles knowing that is a lie.
“I see you have something on your mind.” He smiles coyly. My face becomes slightly hotter and I keep my eyes straight ahead. “Now that you broke through that barrier, its going to be a lot harder to control myself.”
My eyes widen and they shoot towards him and find a Cheshire smile. “Hey don’t look at me like that. You started this.” He chuckles. “You will reap the consequences. So I hope your ready for it.” My face is burning and I choke on air. I can’t believe he just said that. This is where my outburst of courage got me.
I look away but then i feel a tug on my arm. He takes my hand and pulls me aside and backs me into a tree. He presses his body against me and sparks fly through me. I can feel his rock hard abs on me and his strong arms are keeping me in place. He smirks at my startled look and his face quickly nears mine. I tightly shut my eyes and wait for what might happen. He takes my lips and the sparks become intense. It takes everything in me to not let my voice escape me. His kiss is really rough but its passionate. Then quickly as it started, he pulls away. That jerk. He’s trying to torture me.
I open my eyes and he smiles seductively at me. “Now lets see if you can control yourself while we are training.” He finally lets me go and we make our way to catch up to everyone else. I shoot him a stink eye and turn my head to look straight ahead and ignore him the rest of the way. Is he implying I have no self control? What an ass.
We reach the training grounds and set my bag down. I go to an open area and begin to stretch. While I’m in the midst of stretching Silas takes his place across from me and does the same. I slightly turn away so I don’t look at him. He was right. If I watch him smirk a seductive smile even once. It will break down all my efforts of self control.
I finish stretching and I get up and start to jog to get my heart rate going. However that’s not the only reason I decided to go on a quick run around the training grounds. I need a moment away from him.
After 2 laps around the training grounds I go back to Silas to begin sparring. Hopefully he doesn’t mess around. We need to take training seriously. If we don’t, how will we ever become stronger to defeat these rogues?
I take my place across from him and we face each other. Looking at his face, all I see Is pure amusement. I roll my eyes and take my fighting stance.
“Lets see what you got, Angel.” He says and takes his stance. I’ll show him what I got. Ill make sure to kick his ass for earlier.
He gives me a gesture to come at him and I don’t think twice. I quickly close the distance between us and go in for the attack. I throw a couple punches towards his face and he blocks and catches each of them. He smirks in amusement and I roll my eyes. I take a step back to plan my next move. I decide to try my feint attack. I once again send a couple punches to his face and he easily blocks them and while he Is distracted I go for his feet. However he knew of my plan and he jumps back before I could complete the move.
“You’ll have to do better than that, Angel.” He grins. I huff in irritation and go in again. Only this time with a bit more motivation to take him down. I send more swift punches but now to his abdomen but when my fists meet, they are stopped by his rock hard abs. Ugh! How can I beat him? He is built like a fortress. He takes this opportunity and manages to grab me and holds me in a monkey wrap. Instead of yielding I use my foot and hook it around his leg and yank it forward. This causes him to lose balance and he releases me. I quickly turn around and tackle him to the ground. We go tumbling down and I end up on top of him. I slightly sit up and place a firm hand on his chest to keep him down.
“So, how does it feel to get your ass kicked by your ‘Angel’.” I grin in victory. He looks up at me and his amusement doesn’t waver. I think he was expecting to be taken down and he wanted to be.
“I told you it would be an honor for you to kick my ass, but ill repay your kindness later.” He smirks up at me. Knowing what he meant, my face begins to burn for the third time today. He needs to stop affecting like this.
A whistle sounds to tell us to complete our sparring. I roll off my mate and we both get up to to head to the center of the training grounds. Aiden and Atlas are standing in the center and everyone gathers around to find out what we will be doing today.
“Alright, today we will be practicing with our powers. The last few training sessions we practiced without them so we don’t always come to rely on them. However we also need to learn every aspect of them and come to trust and get to know them. So first we will work on using our gifts in human form and then wolf form. Today the Lunar Alpha and Beta will also be aiding us in learning how to take down the rogues. I expect we can all learn a lot from them. So get in your pairs and get to work. Atlas and I will be observing.” Aiden announces and everyone goes back to their sparring pairs.
I once again face Silas but with more confidence.
“Don’t worry sweetheart. Ill go easy on you this time.” I giggle and focus on my influence over ice.
“I don’t think that’s In your nature, Angel.” He chuckles and takes a fighting stance. This time I signal him to come at me. He nods and takes off towards me with great speed. I close my eyes and imagine my power becoming shields. Then just like that, two small shields of ice appear in my hands. He quickly approaches and sends some punches towards my abdomen and shoulder. I block off each with shields and because they they are made of use I’m surprised they don’t break. He takes a step back to plan his next move but I don’t give him the chance. I meld my two sheikhs into a long bo staff. I go in for the attack with my new weapon in hand. I use my Bo to strike at him and block his returning attacks. Finally I do a full three sixty spin and go low. I strike his feet and he goes tumbling down.
“That was really well done Athena!” Atlas says from behind me. I look around and find everyone was watching our fight. I walk bend down and offer Silas a hand to get up.
“Maybe you’ll have better luck in wolf form.” I giggle. All he does is scoff but his amused expressions have not changed.
“You ready Blanche?” I say confidently in my head.
‘Always, Athena.’ She mirrors my confidence. I focus on my beautiful white wolf. Her glistening fur, striking blue eyes, and her magnificent white wings. Then my bones begin to shift quickly and before I know it, I’m towering over my mate.
His eyes widen in adoration and he closes his eyes to focus on shifting. He shifts and it is relatively quicker than mine. Now, he is not much larger than I am. Unlike those rogues, his wolf is strikingly beautiful. His glistening black coat has streaks of dark purple to them along with the suns glistening makes his body look like the galaxy . His magnificent black wings are ginormous and stunning. His eyes are much brighter and there is one singular large horn on his forehead. Like a unicorn. It sounds rather cutesy, and beautiful but he is rather intimating. His aura is much stronger and can be felt by all wolves in the area. I allow Blanche to have a moment of control and she happily woofs at him. His wolf smiles sweetly at her.
I resume control and take up a fighting stance and Silas does the same. I unfurl my large wings and take off into the sky. The summer breeze ruffles my white fur and feels amazing. All the all the birds of the sky flee to the large flying wolf.
I look back and see Silas is right behind me. Once we are a good distance from the ground I stop and turn to face him. I focus on my power and small shards of ice around me and circle me. I slightly fly towards him and release some shards to fly in his direction. His wolf looks at each shard and quickly dodges each by fly in many directions. Even with his huge size he is quite agile while flying. I continue to release shards at him but he dodges every one of them. Then I decide to try a new tactic. I quickly dive down towards the ground with my ice shards in hand. Then I take a sharp pull up and send the shards once again flying at him. This time, he becomes flustered but he dodges it. I use this opportunity of distraction and I charge towards him. I go slightly above him and tackle him midair. We start to go tumbling down together. Not much above the ground we manage to slow down a bit. However that doesn’t completely stop our descent. We slightly crash onto the ground and we slightly go rolling. I try to take this opportunity to pin him down while he is trying regain composer but he is slightly faster. When we stop rolling he ends up on top of my and presses me down with his large black paws. I look up and see his wolf is grinning in victory. He then gives me a small lick on the nose and gets off of me. Man, I was so close! I get up and grab my spare cloths and shift back. I quickly throw on my sports bra and spandex and turn towards Silas who is already in shifted back and in some shorts.
“You almost had me there.” He chuckles and walks up to me.
“Yes, I did.” I slightly giggle.
“I doubt ill be that lucky next time.” He smiles warmly and we find everyone staring.
“Guess we have a lot of work to do if we are going to beat those rogues. Athena you have a lot of work to do to master your wolf form.” Altas says. With that remark concludes our training session and we all head back to the pack house.