The Beta's best friend

Training

Cat’s POV:

Someone knocks loudly on my door, waking me up from my nap, “be on the field in ten minutes Carr!” My personal trainer, Xander yells.

I groan, what time is it?

I glance at my clock and see its ten minutes to 4 pm, which meant evening session is going to start at 4 pm.

After the Melina incident, I spent the rest of the morning hanging around Derrick until after lunch when he left to do patrol with Lucas and I came to my room to sleep.

Sam’s been around and after lunch, Lydia was with Melina with Lincoln not far behind them too. Melina been the talk of the pack all day and I can see she was shy about having all that attention on her.

I change into a pair of joggers, my sports b*a and T back top with a pair of running sneakers.

I mind link Derrick,

‘Where are you right now?’

‘Room, playing video games with a few guys, what’s up?’

‘I have training session at 4, can you come be my support please.’

‘Give me until 4:10, I’ll be there.’

‘Thank you.’

‘No problem Kat, you’re my best friend after all.’

I leave my room and go outside on the field where the same persons from this morning are already there with their trainers.

“You make it on time, that’s good”, Xander says as he spots me, “now since we didn’t get to complete this morning’s session on officially meeting your trainer, you’ll do that for the next twenty minutes then your training will start.”

He finishes and everyone went with their trainers to different spots on the field or into the forest, “let’s take a walk to the lake”, he approaches me.

We walk into the forest towards the lake, “what made you want to learn to fight?” Xander asks.

“I guess being the beta’s best friend and wanting to learn how to defend myself so my mate wouldn’t have to worry when I’m alone”, I shrug.

“He’ll always be worried no matter what Catalina, you’ll be mates and have a bond that can last a lifetime”, he explains.

“What about you? How did you become the leader of the pack warriors?” I ask.

“I was one of the top warriors in the pack and when I turned twenty one the alpha assigned me to leader of the pack, since then we won all our battles against rogues with a few injuries”, he explains.

“How old are you now?”

“Twenty four, no one knew it was my birthday except the alpha and luna, they let me take the day off”, he shrugs.

“I’ll be turning twenty one in a couple of months”, I say.

“Oh yeah, Derrick is a few weeks older than you and Lucas will be twenty three like two months before you guys”, he nods.

“I bet there’ll be a huge party and stuff”, I say, “just like how the twins had one for their sweet sixteen.”

“Yeah, it was cool, I’m surprise Lincoln found his mate this early though although she’s human”, he adds.

“Yeah, he’s lucky when I was sixteen I was causing trouble in school with Derrick”, I laugh.

“Yeah, you two used to be getting a lecture by your parents almost every week.”

“It was Derrick’s fault, he was the one starting the pranks first”, I shrug.

“Sure, then you somehow got involve in the crossfire”, Xander says sarcastically.

“Exactly my point.”

He chuckles, “let’s get back to the field to see what you got and if you picked up anything from being around a future Beta all those years”, he smirks.

“I pick up the basics, just didn’t had a reason to use them”, I shrug.

“We’ll see.”

I fall on the ground for the tenth time, “is that all you got?” Xander smirks as he bounces on his feet.

“I was just warming up”, I got up.

“So those nine falls from before were just a warm up too?” He grins and I roll my eyes, “you only know attack moves, I’ll show you some defend moves for the first week; next week if you improve then I’ll consider showing you more attack moves”, he explains, “now get in position.”

I got in position as he throws a punch at me, “duck and try to swing your leg under me”, he order and I duck but didn’t get the foot part.

“Good, this is how you swing your foot under me”, he demonstrates on me and I fall backward.

“That’s unfair”, I say.

“It’s the only way you’ll learn how to do it”, he helps me up as I look into his gray eyes.

“Whatever”, I pull my hand away from him.

“Now try it”, he suggests.

I did the duck again and this time almost got Xander on the ground if he wasn’t so heavy or had a great balance.

“Nice try Catalina since it was just your second attempt.”

“Can I get a water break now?” I fan myself since I am sweating.

“Not yet, you still got fifteen minutes.”

I groan.

“Before this session is over you’re going to have to get me on the ground or you’ll be doing overtime”, he warns.

“But you’re heavy, can I get someone lighter?” I ask.

“No exchanging partners, at your little competition in two weeks I guarantee all your opponents will be lighter than I am so you can take them down easily”, he encourages.

“Fine, but I’m not doing no overtime on the first day”, I got into position.

“How about we try something else? We got two weeks for you to master the foot swing”, he suggests.

“Yeah.”

“Let’s see how long it’ll take you to get to the cliff in human form”, he smirks and I groan.

Why didn’t I see this coming?

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I burst into Derrick’s room, “why did I agree to do fighting?” I fall face down on his bed.

“You didn’t really tell me the reason Kat also you stink”, he covers his nose.

“Blame Xander, he’s the only having me running miles all session and barely any breaks”, I complain.

“He’s building up your speed and strength in human form, just give it some time you’ll see”, he says.

“Whatever, how did I look in training before I went to the cliff?”

“Not horrible, I thought you a few things and you put me to shame”, he says sadly.

“He’s much stronger than I am”, I defend myself.

“I took him down a few times and he’s more muscular than I am”, Derrick points out.

“That’s because you got Beta blood running through your veins, you’ll be stronger than him no matter who’s bigger”, I shrug.

“Well go enjoy your bubble bath which I set up for you, you got forty minutes”, he holds the door open for me.

“Thanks.”

1 hour later

“So how was your evening session?” Sammy asks as we eat dinner in my room with Derrick, we didn’t have to be at the dining room only Alpha, Luna, Lucas, the twins and Melina.

“Bad, Xander kept making fun of me”, I scoff.

“Maybe he likes you”, she winks and Derrick stiffens a little.

“Don’t be ridiculous Sam, I’m sure he has eyes on a girl already”, I laugh.

“Yeah, you”, she smirks and I roll my eyes.

“If you talking about him so much, why don’t you date him?” Derrick teases.

“He’s not my type, plus he’s always busy defending the pack and stuff, don’t think I can keep up with that”, she shakes her head.

“If you say so”, he shrugs.

Sammy’s parents are healers, which makes her a healer too.

“Can we talk about something else?” I ask.

“Yes, Lincoln’s mate she’s so pretty and a human too”, Sam smiles.

“She’s quiet”, Derrick adds.

“She’s scared because something terrible happened, but I can’t tell you what it is”, I say.

“Why not?” They both frown.

“Not my place or business to tell you.”

Sammy scoffs, “some friend you are.”

“I understand Kat, forget about Sam’s stubbornness.”

“Hey!” She snaps.

“It’s true.”

I laugh as the both of them bicker at each other.

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