Ella's POV"How well can you fight?"I looked at my dad, wondering what had suddenly prompt the strange question and how we had moved from there.I racked my brain for the answer as I stared at him, wondering what he was expecting from me. I didn't want to say the wrong answer and disappoint him.I huffed, blowing out a gust of exasperated breath. I had met my father not up to five hours and I was already worried about disappointing him and trying to impress him.What was wrong with me?How did we get here so fast? We had talked about the rogues, how mum had died, how I left the land of the blood moon pack because I couldn't deal with her death and didn't want to stay where memories of her would bury me alive in grief and I told him of how the last five years with the blue river pack had been.I kept the embarrassing details to myself. There was really no need to tell him everything especially the ones that weren't necessary.I didn't tell him of how Kevin had rejected me as his mate
Ella's POV"Oh!" I groaned as I collapsed on the ground.My feet were weak and I was tired. I wanted to give up so many times during the training but dad wouldn't let me. He wouldn't even listen that I could summon black spiders to protect myself if the opponent I was fighting with was stronger than I was.He wouldn't listen and was only determined to train me as hard as he could. I suspected that he felt guilty about mum's death and blamed himself for not being there with her when she died. It seemed like he was trying to alleviate the guilt he felt by letting me know of all the fighting stances that he knew so I wouldn't die early as mum did.It would have been better if he could be with me but we both knew that he couldn't. I sighed, knowing that he was hurting and training me and telling himself that he was helping me to not die early was his own way of coping with his grief.Because I knew that, I found it hard to complain to him even though my eyes were turning and my insides we
Ella's POVDang. I was drained and felt like my soul was moving out of me. I collapsed on the ground with a hard thud after my training. I hadn't bene able to break out of dad's hold and he had been the one to take pity on me and let me go eventually.I felt horrible about being spared this time again than at the aches plaguing my body all over. He had let me go telling me to prepare for the training the next day.I let out a sigh as I turned on my side on the mat and groaned at the pain that went through all my body. At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if I died within the next few weeks. Dad didn't have to worry about someone else killing me and cutting my life span short. With the way he was drilling me hard, he was more than enough to kill me.Kevin walked up to me and sat down beside me. "You did well today."I snorted. "You don't have to lie to me. I didn't. I'm not better off than yesterday.""Do you need a massage?" He asked rather than argue that I had actually done well.I
Kevin's POV"Ella!" I shouted, holding her close to me as tears fell from my eyes.The war had ended. Like I had told the mouthy group leader of the Rogues hours earlier, I had ended up killing him. His corpse lay by my side, his eyes open in shock as if he couldn't believe that he could die.I snorted, thinking of him as an idiot. How could he think that he couldn't die? Was anyone that immortal? Even if anyone was meant to have the gift of immortality, it was definitely not the rogues with their loss of a good personality and a love of violence.If people like the rogues got to live long and have the gift of immortality, I was worried that I would hate the deity that was in charge of that and hate the moon goddess more than I hated her at the moment.Had we not suffered enough? I wondered what she was doing wherever she was, watching as we jumped from one dilemma into another trouble.I glanced away from the rogue, not caring about him as a corpse or his journey into the afterlife.
Ella's POV"I did it!" I yelled, my voice as loud as it could be."Yes, you did it." Dad smiled at me. "It was a minimal progress but you're finally showing some signs."I couldn't believe that I had done it. I had gotten my hand out of my dad's hold. I had done it. I was excited. I risked a glance at Kevin to know how he felt about my victory. It had taken me a long time to break out of dad's hold but I would call it victory still.Kevin gave me a slow smile and then looked away. I smiled back, my face bright. He didn't look as excited as I hoped that he would but that was progress enough for me. I would take that.He hadn't spoken to me since I woke up today and I knew he was probably dreading the training later in the evening. He was the first to get to the training ground, wincing everytime I cried out in pain. I knew that he secretly hoped that I collapse so he could swoop in to be the hero and tell my dad that he was right and I wasn't ready yet.I didn't want that to happen tho
Ella's POVI smiled as I watched the men move around, the hustle and bustle of activities putting excitement in the air and giving out a charge that we hadn't felt in days.I loved it. It was better than the morose expression that had been on everyone's faces for the past two days as if someone had died. My subconscious reminded me that I had almost died but I reminded it as well of the operative word in the sentence. I had almost died but I hadn't died.It wasn't until later that I found out that everyone, not only my father and Kevin, had had it rough when I had been lying down in that tent and fighting for my life. I was touched by their concerns as I had been worried ever since my father and Caleb came that their affection for me would have dwindled because of my birth origin.Looking at them now, going up and about to arrange a mini party in my sake, I realized how silly I had been for ever doubting for once the good in the heart of these men.Kevin had told me before that the me
Ella's POV"What if the Rogues see the fire we have and attack us again?" I asked two hours into the party while pulling out a stick of roasted meat from the fire."Oh!" The men all groaned. "Why are you being a party spoiler?"I smiled as I heard them all groan. It was fun to rile them up."The rogues are going to find us anyways so we might as well live and enjoy our lives." Kevin said.I nodded as I looked at him. He was right. It wasn't going to make a difference if we had a party or not, the rogues seemed determined to find us and they were going to even if we hid ourselves in a cave and tried to pretend like we didn't exist.I didn't even think that it was possible that we pretended to not exist. The rogues were the ones who shouldn't exist."It seems like the rogues are determined to kill you." Dad said.I sighed. I had opened this line of conversation and officially ruined the party. I hoped the guys could forgive me for that. It wasn't like dad had been talking for the past t
Kevin's POVThat was it?That was my first thought when I heard what Zeke had to say and I almost blurted out that he was being ridiculous for saying we might think his idea was useless.Why would I think that?Why would I say that to him even if it was?I glanced at Ella and realized she understood what he meant. I glanced at Liam but he had an unreadable expression on his face so I couldn't tell what he was thinking of. I sighed. That brat could be too controlled with his emotions at times. I glanced at the other men but not all of were looking in my direction so I couldn't tell what they were thinking of.I looked away from them and focused on Zeke who was still waiting for my response.I knew the point Zeke was trying to make but I needed to ask him to explain further for clarification so everyone would have no doubts."Why do you say that?" I asked him. I wasn't going to tell him that I understood his worries right now without letting him speak of what he meant. That might make t