~Serena’s POV~
I woke up to my alarm and got ready for my training.
Leah knocked, “Come, Serena time to go.”
I rushed out of my room and followed her. I needed some water so I told Leah to move ahead and ran into the kitchen. I accidentally bumped into someone.
“I’m sorry,” I instantly apologized.
“You should use those two buttons rogue.” She said pointing at my eyes.
I looked at the woman, she is the same woman who was with Noah yesterday.
I wanted to slap her for having s*x with my mate and disrespecting me but I couldn’t. Despite having so much hatred for her, I sweetly smiled at her and said, “Aww you said my eyes are buttons so how am I supposed to see with buttons? I take my apology back. Buttons can't see.”
She opened her mouth to say something but Kade interrupted her ear-paining voice, “I thought you were on the training ground, Vanessa. Alpha told you to get back on training. Go back now.”
Let me correct you Kade she is a b***h. So she is not Vanessa, she is... bitchessa. I wanted to say that loud but held myself back.
Bitchessa scoffed, “Don’t pretend you accept her Kade, she is not worth it.”
Okay... I think she is in trouble. She angered the head warrior of her pack. Kade's expression was hard and his cool guy attitude was gone. He stepped in her direction and said in a threatening voice, “Don’t you dare use that tone on me again Vanessa. Don’t forget I am the head warrior of this pack. You won’t tell me what should I do and whom should I accept. Training ground now otherwise 50 laps of the ground as punishment.”
Vanessa stared at him in shock. I won't say that I’m not shocked but I am happy more than shocked. It’s good to have friends who have your back.
Vanessa gave me a look and thought of getting rid of me. I internally laughed. She really thinks she can. She must be a good fighter than me for now but she doesn’t know that I’ll read her mind and escape from her evil plans.
Kade sighed, “Ignore her Serena, she is always like this. Let’s go outside Taylor is waiting.”
“Yeah, but let me have some water.”
Everyone was training outside. Some were working on their fighting skill and some were on defence. Women and Kids were also there. They were doing cardio and self-defence. After years I saw a training ground where everyone was helping and teaching each other new ways of protection. I felt good that none of them stopped when they saw me nor did they think of anything.
Taylor told me to do stretching. After that, he said that I should do 2 laps of the training ground so he could know about my speed. I didn’t want to run alone because this training ground is big and Vanessa was here. If looks could kill I would have been dead by now. She's been giving me death glares since I stepped into the training grounds.
She is continuously thinking to get me alone so she can have her way with me. I know I will handle her with Sere and Star's help but I don’t want to lose my cool nor do I want to get involved in any argument with her again. She will waste my time, nothing else.
I told Taylor to run with me and he agreed without any question. He told Peter and Kade to look after everyone and joined me. He took off first and told me to follow him. I did as he said but after some time I couldn’t follow his lead. Running after days feels good. Wind kissing my cheeks, surroundings getting blurred and my legs stomping into the surface which was filled with twigs and grass, god... I want to run faster. The last time I ran was when I escaped from Zedr's place. I wanted to feel free like the wind so I fastened my pace, left Taylor behind, and ran deeper into the forest.
I ran for a few minutes until the most amazing and addicting scent hit my nose. I know who it was. It was Noah.
I’m glad that I always mask my scent otherwise he would have smelled me. I followed his scent and reached a lake. A beautiful big jet black wolf was sitting by the lake. He is beautiful. His soft fur was shining in the sunlight and his massive body... He was looking amazing. He looks amazing both in his human and wolf form. But Big bad alpha looks upset. I focused on his mind but he was too reserved that I was unable to read his mind. Seeing him like this didn’t sit well with me.
I tried to focus more but I noticed that his wolf was on alert. He must have sensed that someone is watching him so I quietly and quickly made my way back.
When I reached the ground, I saw Taylor pacing there and giving orders to a few warriors. I slapped my head, I made him worry about me.
One warrior looked in my direction and told Taylor. Taylor jogged towards me, “Where the heck you was? I thought that I lost you or something happened to you. You were running behind me, why did you cross me and f**k, how the hell did you cross me? I thought you never ran except that night. How were you able to leave me behind?” He bombarded questions on me.
“I am sorry. I wanted to run fast. I always loved running faster that’s why I did that. It won't happen again.”
I am fast since my childhood. My father was the fastest lycan, faster than my grandfather. I always ran with dad and when I was about 4 and 7 months I was able to get past him. It surprised dad that I was able to run this fast at that age.
He blew a breath of relief and said, “Now we will go to the gym for cardio but before that tell me why I wasn't able to smell you. I tried to catch your scent but there was nothing and I still can't smell you.”
I shrugged, "Maybe your nose isn't working properly," he narrowed his eyes but didn't say anything.
I know he was not satisfied with my answer but I can't reveal my identity. I trust him but still, I can't take any risks.
The machines and equipment in their gym are amazing. I was on the stair mill when I caught Noah's scent. I know he was looking at me but I choose to ignore him as I'm on a mission ‘mission ignore Noah' so I didn’t look at him and focused on my cardio.
After a while I scented Kade. I looked at the entrance and saw him coming inside. Noah was there too but I ignored him and waved at Kade and he waved back smiling. I love how he always smiles.
Before focusing back on the machine I glanced at Noah, he looked pissed. But why he was pissed? And looking dangerously at Kade?
Ohh!!! Was big bad alpha jealous? But why was he jealous? He doesn’t want me; I am here only because of his wolf. He was f*****g bitchessa and now he seems jealous of my friend. Men.
I focused on what he was asking Kade, he questioned why he is here. Kade told him why he came but he still looked pissed. I read his mind and yes he was a hundred per cent jealous of Kade. But I don’t care about his jealousy issue.
Here I am dealing with his cheating trauma and he is getting jealous of my friends. He looked at me again but I ignored him AGAIN.
He huffed and left the gym. Avoiding him was not easy but I have to do this to maintain my sanity.
Kade came toward me and told me more about the equipment there. He told Leah, Catherine, Lily, some other girls and me about self-defence and gave us some tips on observing our enemy’s moves.
After 2 hours of training, Taylor told me to call it a day and to eat something. I protested about my training timing, but he said this is enough for day one. He will increase my timing from tomorrow.
I took a long nice shower and got ready. This time when I looked in the mirror I didn’t see any broken or lost girl. I saw a confident girl looking back at me. I don’t have bruises on my body, there were little scars but they will heal with time. My hair looks shiny and better than before and my eyes were coming back to life. I smiled, I am feeling alive again.
Leah came into my room and said, “Come let’s have breakfast, and then we are going shopping,” She said the 'shopping' word jumping up and down.
“Breakfast is fine but why shopping, I mean why me? You can take Catherine or Lilly with you, I am good here.” I asked confused. Taylor already provided things to me. I don’t want anything else.
She rolled her eyes, “Only you can shop for your things, not Catherine or Lilly. Taylor told me that he couldn’t get you enough stuff so I should take you shopping.”
I told her that I have enough clothes but she rolled her eyes and went into my closet. “Seriously Serena, you call 2 workout clothes, a dress, and 4 casual clothes enough? They are not enough. You need more clothes and yes shoes also.”
“Leah trust me they are enough and also I don’t have any money,” I said money part in a very low voice.
She placed her hand on my shoulder and said, “Hey, you don’t have to worry about money. You are a member of this clan and until a member is completely settled and has all the necessities, we help them. After all, we are a pack. Taylor said that you need to focus on your training first. When you are trained enough we will find you to do something. Everyone runs errands. You can do that later. I’ll help you with that but before that, we are going to shop for things for you.”
Tears filled my eyes at her gesture, nobody cared about me like this before except for my parents.
She wiped my tears and said, “Everything will be alright. I know we can’t change the past but we can make our present and future as we want. So stop crying and focus on your present. Come let’s go otherwise Mrs. Beck is going to drag us to the dining room.”
I laughed and left my room with little hope that everything will be fine one day.