My fists made contact with the leather of the focus mitts in rapid succession.
"Again. " My coach yelled for the umpteenth time. He would drill me on a combo until it felt like my arms were going to fall off. But that was fine with me. Better to know how to fight and protect myself than be one of those defenseless girls out there.
"Hyaah! " I yelled out as | threw the last punch in the combo he had just taught me that morning. I had thrown my all into the final blow to signify that I was done with this current lesson, at least for now.
"Damn Trinity, that hurt. " He growled at me,but instead of looking upset, he was actually smiling. The pride I saw i his eyes made me happy.
"Sorry, Jim. " I laughed, a small giggle crept into my voice, it was nice seeing how strong I could be.
you werent so nitue then Ta say tele was no way you were really a girl. " He laughed when he spoke this time.
"That was mean, Jim."
"It's a compliment and you know it. " My complaining had only made him laugh harder,that or it was my pouty look. "You fight better than most of the guys in my gym.
"That's not hard to do. Most of them think they need to be the biggest to be the best,but that just typically leaves them with less speed and more places to hit. And most of them have no brains at all and can't put those muscles to good use. " Plus, most of them don't have the added advantage that I have.I added in my head. At my words, Jim practically had to hold on to the wall to keep standing.
"That's why I like you kid, you got spunk, and definitely brains. Now go on, get changed, or you'll be late for your next class. " Looking up, I saw he was right. I had to squeeze my training sessions in between my classes at the local college ever since Grandfather had stopped paying for my previous instructor.
"Alright Jim, I'll see you next week. " I told him before running to the empty and very seldom used ladies' locker room.
I hurried through a shower like I usually did before I pulled my long brown hair into its customary high ponytail, leaving the tresses to hang and dry into their natural wavy curls.I dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and topped that with a hoodie. Normal college freshmen,especially girls, probably put more effort into their appearance before they went to class,but I just didn't have the time. Especially not at that moment, I was seriously running behind.
It was at times like these that I was glad I actually ran somewhat faster than most people. Maybe not as fast as everyone else in my family, or everyone else in the pack,but definitely faster than a human. I had to actually make a conscious effort not to run too fast as I hurried back to campus.
I made good time and got to class before it started, thankfully. Though it helped that I could sense when someone was coming up in my blind spot or when there would be something in my way up ahead. It was a sort of preternatural gift that all werewolves seemed to have that was granted to us by the moon goddess. Not that I actually counted as a werewolf technically, but whatever.
The professor came in and started her lecture. This class was a pre-req and therefore a total snore for me. I had wanted something that was going to challenge me and make me think, but they had yet to teach me anything beyond what Grandfather's tutors had taught me when I was growing up.I had quite the high-class education and upbringing, but that all ended when I turned eighteen. And while Grandfather still supported me financially, to an extent, it was definitely significantly less than it was when I was a kid.
That was fine by me, though. I'm much happier now that I am out here doing things on my own. I don't have to live my life by his strict rules anymore, not as much anyway.The only rules I really had to follow were those of the pack, and that was fine by me.
You see, my name is Trinity Whitton, and my family was once very high ranking in the hierarchy of the Red Springs pack. My grandfather actually used to be the Beta to the previous Alpha, however, that Alpha was killed in an attack just a few years ago and his son took his place. But even being the Beta wasn't enough to keep my family from losing face in a massive scandal.
We wolves are a proud people. Those are the words that Grandfather would tell me every day since I was a little girl. As far back as I can remember. But that pride hadn't stopped my mother from disappearing for a weekend when she was fifteen and coming back to face her father's fury. And then, to make matters worse, they found out she was pregnant. She refused to tell them who the father was. They naturally assumed that the father was not a wolf, which made me an abomination in their eyes.
Regardless, I was still part of the pack, and the previous Alpha had ordered that I was to be treated like any other member of the pack until it was certain that I would not shift like everyone else. Our wolf forms usually show at any time between the ages of thirteen and eighteen.
Many think that the sooner you shift the stronger your wolf will be, but that's not always true, but boys will be boys and they still compete however they can. Now here I was, nearly nineteen, and I still haven't shifted. But I still had every other aspect of being a wolf. I had the speed, the strength,the heightened senses, the fighting instinct,everything. I was very much a member of the pack.I was clearly not human, but as of yet, I was not a werewolf either. I just didn't belong anywhere.
I couldn't ask my mother about my father myself. If she was just too scared to talk to her father or if she might be less scared now after all these years. The ridicule and shame heaped on my family when she was pregnant and right after she gave birth was too much for her to handle. She ended up taking her own life when I was less than a month old.
The only thing my mother left behind for me was a pendant that she had asked to be given to me when I was old enough. I honestly can't believe that they followed through with it, and if it were left up to Grandfather, they probably would not have,but after my mother's death's I lived primarily with my Uncle Wesley and his wife Eve, they had two boys who treated me just like a sister and were the best part of my childhood.
Honestly, life would have been pretty good if it hadn't been for Grandfather. I swear he hates me. He had ridiculously high standards for me. Always telling me things like I would never be allowed to make the same mistakes that his poor excuse for a daughter had made.
I had every one of his rules drilled into me every day for years. I was not allowed to attend public school with my cousins and the rest of the kids in the pack. I was made to train and learn many different things. I was taught etiquette, martial arts, ballet,boxing, fencing, foreign languages, musical instruments, and a ridiculously hard curriculum.
Grandfather paid for it all, hoping that I would shift by the time I turned eighteen and he could at least marry me off to a good family and use me to regain some status in the hierarchy. But then my birthday came and went, and it became more than abundantly clear to everyone that I just was not going to shift. I had no wolf. I was an abomination, a freak of nature, something that shouldn't be mixed in with the rest of the pack.
Yet I still had to follow all the pack rules. I still had to attend all the pack gatherings. I still had to bow my head and bend my knees when the alpha gave the order to kneel. His words were like a compulsion to the pack,and we were simply unable to defy them.And even with all that, I was still treated as an outsider by most of the higher-ranking families. As someone who just didn't belong with all the cool kids.
I could tell the lecture was coming to an end,Professor Thompson's tone of voice always gave her away, so I pulled myself ot of my daydream and paid attention enough to get the homework assignment for the class.The composition we were to write would be all too easy for me, again. It had been a little over a month since classes had started and I was still bored. I was taking four classes,and the only one even remotely interesting was the Intro to Criminology class. I hope this gets more exciting soon. I told myself again as I was leaving the room."Hey Trin, I see you were spacing out again. "I heard a man's voice call out to me from behind."Yeah, Astro, can't you keep yourself grounded for a single class? " Another added."Ignore them Trin. " Juniper sighed smacking the two of them on the arm while the four of us walked to the side of the hallway, so we didn't block anyone walking past us. These were the only friends I had ever managed to make in my entire life.Juniper and her twin
I was sitting at my desk listening to the reports from my personal assistant Noah.He was highly efficient at his job, which meant that the reports always lasted longer than absolutely necessary. He could convey all the information in less time, but there was no telling what the extra info would provide in the long run.He reported on the restless independent wolves living in the next city over. He informed me that the pack whose territory bordered ours, but had significantly less land than us, was causing a bit of a stir with talks of a possible attempt to overthrow me and take my land and people. There was talk of a rogue coven of magic users, witches and warlocks, that had decided to settle in our area. We haven't seen the likes of them in nearly twenty years, according to the elders and the record books.Noah was so thorough and good at his job that I had considered making him my Beta,his grandfather had been my father's Beta after all. But there was all that unpleasantness that his
I was sitting at my desk listening to the reports from my personal assistant Noah.He was highly efficient at his job, which meant that the reports always lasted longer than absolutely necessary. He could convey all the information in less time, but there was no telling what the extra info would provide in the long run.He reported on the restless independent wolves living in the next city over. He informed me that the pack whose territory bordered ours, but had significantly less land than us, was causing a bit of a stir with talks of a possible attempt to overthrow me and take my land and people. There was talk of a rogue coven of magic users, witches and warlocks, that had decided to settle in our area. We haven't seen the likes of them in nearly twenty years, according to the elders and the record books.Noah was so thorough and good at his job that I had considered making him my Beta,his grandfather had been my father's Beta after all. But there was all that unpleasantness that hi
After I was finished being primped and pampered by Aunt Eve and put in the dress that Grandfather had brought, I was ready for the dreaded gathering. Juniper and the others were going to pick me up on their way, it would be easier for me with them there.When we left my house, which was located in the upper section of the compound thanks to my family's status, or previous status, we headed to the northernmost road. I had lived in the compound my whole life, but even so,I had never actually been to the Alpha's house before. I had gathered with everyone at the clearing where important meetings and events were usually held, unless the weather was too bad. But I had never actually been to the Alpha's residence, and judging by Juniper's response, neither had she."This is actually exciting. " She exclaimed as we drove up the long, long driveway that led up to the Alpha House. At the back of the compound there was a small road, but this road was actually a driveway. All the houses in the com
"Hello, Xoxo" Zanky spoke out, immediately the person from the other end picked up the call."Is the job done?" Zanky questioned further, going straight to the point."Not yet boss hi...""Are you crazy? Then why the hell are you calling me?" Zanky bluntly cut Xoxo off before he could complete his words. "He doesn't want to give you your share. He's claiming all of it."Xoxo replied softly, trying to be as calm as possible. He doesn't want to be on Zanky's bad list. Zanky isn't someone Xoxo could offer to offend."Damn him! Damn that mother fucker. Who the hell does he think he is?"Zanky roared hitting his fist on the wall of his room angrily."Calm down bo…""Don't you dare ask me to calm down. don't dare!" Zanky shunned him immediately before Xoxo could even finish up his words."He has bitten more than he can chew and I'm gonna bite him hard where he least expects it...."Zanky groaned, squeezing his bleeding fists tightly.Xoxo remain silent, without muttering a word; awaiting his
They tip-toed along the hallway leading to spider's room and almost immediately, gunshots rang out...Groans are heard! someone has been shot."Vicky!"xoxo called in a whispering tone. He couldn't risk raising his voice."Vicky!"he called again but, everywhere remained dead silent except,the low groans being heard. He rushed towards the direction the groans were coming from, and there he sat, with his hands hovering around his shot leg."ple...ase he..lp me.. Xoxo..o. don't leave me here."he groaned out painfully."I won't! can you at least stand up?"he asked, trying to support him up to his feet."I can..t! Just do something.."he roared out in pain.Xoxo tore the hem of his shirt, and tied it around the injured area. He lifted him up with one of his hands around his shoulders.They turned, walking to the exit of the hallway with Xoxo supporting Vicky's movement.They came into the opening, and kept running, walking out of the premises."Gosh! I am tired, Vic. let's rest a little."Xox
Zanky tried having his rest but then, this weird feeling kept nudging him and sleep became far fetched from him. He stood up from his bed with just his shorts and made his way to his balcony.He turned on his phone to check up on his son and almost immediately, Fred his personal bodyguards call came in.Zanky quickly picked up the call without hesitating for a moment."Boss Zanky, something bad had happened" Fred anxious voice was heard from the other end of the phone.A deep frown Immediately circulated Zanky's face. That wasn't what he was hoping to hear. " What's going on?" He questioned, trying his best to keep calm and get to know what was happening."Boss, it's your son Vicky." Fred said again, he just didn't know how to pass out such a painful news to his boss. "What the hell happened to my son? Get to the point, Fred!" Zanky snapped into the phone, his patience flewing out of the windows in a hurry."He is dead, Boss! Spider shot him severally on his chest. Vicky is no more,
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