Chapter 168: Family Secrets

Ivy's POV

The next day, as I spar with Sylvia out on the training field, I can hardly focus.

I’m still haunted by what happened with the werewolf assassin. As I dodge and swerve around Sylvia’s attempted strikes, I can still see the assassin’s figure superimposed over hers, haunting me. I cna’t stop replaying our fight in my mind. As she steps, he steps. As she dodges, he dodges. As she swings, he swings. I can feel my heart rate going up, panic settling into my chest.

Once again, I was ambushed. Once again, I almost died. Once again, the only reason I’m alive is because someone else was able to rescue me.

It’s different this time, too, because I’m in training. I’ve been learning how to fight. I’m supposed to have gotten better.

But in the end, it didn’t matter.

He could’ve killed me all the same.

And what about the man who rescued me? I aim a halfhearted strike towards Sylvia, but she dodges easily. I can’t stop thinking about the animosity between Spencer and Prince Colin.

I’