Chapter 55 - Gunnar

Sparring with Finn was at least doing its job of distracting me from what I was missing out on back at the house. And like every time we brothers sparred at the training facility, we drew a crowd. Of course, the crowd would have been generally bigger if Finn had been involved because everyone wanted to watch their alpha sparring. Sparring was the great equalizer for us brothers.

Our combat training was the only area in which our dad didn’t play favorites. He expected Henrik and me to be among the strongest of Ironfur’s warriors. And he expected Finn to be able to beat us in a fight, and if he couldn’t, Finn had to train harder to prove he couldn’t be so easily defeated by his little brothers or someday usurped if Henrik or I wanted to challenge for the title.

Yeah, I know, that last part is totally fucked. You’d question why our dad would even think Henrik or I would want to overthrow the line of succession. It’s not generally done, but according to Finn, it happened in other packs a