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She pushed my hand off her with more force than necessary and this time, I did stumble. Tears blurred my vision as I stood with every eye on me. Including the eye of the alpha prince. I chanced a glance at him and saw his cold face and tight jaw.
I swallowed down at the anger I detected in his stiff shoulder. He didn’t like my weakness. He would expect me to stand up for myself but my tongue glued to the roof of my mouth and I couldn’t say anything.
“Watch your steps, bitch.” Skylar snarled.
Beta Jabari stood abruptly making everyone look his way, away from me and the drama Skylar was making up.
“Sit.” The Alpha’s cold voice had Jabari back in his seat in less than a second. He turned to Skylar and I with anger now prominent in his eyes. “Apologize to her.” I knew what caused his anger.
Me. He was angry at me. Why would someone as weak as me be his Luna?
“I’m sorry,” I said to Skylar with a quiet voice. She brushed off my apology with a wave of her hand and a small smile at the prince.
“Wait for me in the training grounds,” he said to me, going back to his food and dismissing me. I walked out of the dining room with Skylar wearing a triumphant look and Celeste glaring at the prince. I wished she wouldn’t get herself in trouble for me.
The training grounds were meant for warriors. Even this early, there were people training, people who skipped breakfast to improve on their strength. No one paid attention to me as I sat at a corner, watching those sparing around me or just warming up for the training ahead.
The alpha came in a long time later with Skylar at his side. She gave me a gloating smile once she saw me sitting at a secluded corner.
“Rise.” I stood as my alpha commanded but my eyes were on Skylar’s hand on his bicep. She tightened it when she caught me looking, her smile widening.
She most likely had figured out that the alpha and I were mates even if he wanted to hide it. Skylar hated me so she took this opportunity to make me feel miserable and it worked. Seeing her beside the alpha, I realized we would never look so good together. She was a strong alpha female, capable and beautiful. She was everything we expected from an alpha like Valens.
“Skylar tells me she has trained warriors before.” I looked from him to Skylar, waiting for the joke. Did Skylar look like she’d ever trained anyone before? She hadn’t!
“Yes. I can help train her.” She looked up at him with a radiant smile that made my guts clench and fall. I didn’t like the look she gave him. I didn’t like the hand she had on him and I didn’t like that he allowed it.
I was jealous.
“Skylar will be your trainer. Make sure you cooperate with her.” He pulled his hand from hers and left the two of us to ‘train’. Those around us went back to their training as the alpha left. Skylar gave me an evil smile that made my heart beat faster.
“Are you ready to train, omega?” She cracked her knuckles. Without a doubt, I knew she would destroy me.
“What are you planning, Skylar?” Her fist shut out to crack against my jaw before I even finished saying what I had to say.
“Watch the way you speak to me. I’m your trainer, after all.” She smiled at me after giving me a harsh glare. “Now, let’s start.”
Training to Skylar meant beating me up as I expected. By the time she was done with me, every inch of my body hurt. My left eye was healing slowly from a blow and I had b***d dripping from my nose. I spat b***d out of my mouth, staggering to a stand, dizzy with pain.
“Do better next time.” Skylar giggled as she finally left me after two hours of what I could only call torture in daylight.
I staggered all the way to the basement of the pack house only to get there and realize my things had been moved out. I didn’t have a room here anymore. I didn’t even have a bed to rest on while I recovered. I had to get up to the penthouse but I couldn’t get my legs to work to carry me to the elevator so I laid on the cold, bare ground and gasped for breath.
Skylar tried to kill me and my mate gave her the pass to. I closed my eyes with my back on the floor and pain blooming all over me.
The next time I opened my eyes, I was on a soft bed with voices around me.
“Did I go too far?” The voice sounded muffled from where I was.
“I cannot say, Alpha but that girl has to be punished for doing this.” The other voice sounded angry.
“I put her up to it.” Regret reverberated in his voice and it made my wolf whine. “She is too weak, Jabari. I cannot have that.”
“Help her get stronger.”
“How? I will break her with my strength. She will crumble like dust and I cannot have that. She has to be stronger. She needs to be stronger. I cannot hold my beast much longer. He is panting for her and if I have her now, I might break her. If that doesn’t happen, then one of my many enemies will ruin her. She is too weak.” He ranted.
I closed my eyes tighter wishing I could avoid his words but they were true. I was too weak. I would be nothing but a weakness to him and he didn’t need any weakness.
“It is my duty to protect her. She is awake now so I will take my leave.”
I didn’t bother trying to pretend to sleep when I heard the Beta leave and the alpha come to stand beside me.
“This is your room now. What were you doing in the basement?” His words were as cold as ice, and sharp enough to cut into my heart. I felt I’d imagined the warmth in his voice, the regret of seeing me so broken because when he spoke to me, I felt worthless again.
“I – I forgot.” I looked away from him but he took my chin in his hand and turned me to face him again. He didn’t do it forcefully but the injury on my jaw ached and made me wince.
“What am I going to do with you?” He mused. “I cannot let you be my ruin.”
“I – I won’t do that.”
“You’re my curse breaker.”