Chapter 124

Chapter 0124

“It’s a draw.” A guy called Taylor says, clapping his hands. “In order to have this settled, Nelly and Ashanti will have a duel after training today. Whoever wins will occupy the second spot.”

“I already said it’s not about duels. It’s about origin! The idea of settling this with a duel is preposterous!” The guy who bashed me a while ago argues, but Taylor shakes his head and looks at Delta Kyle wito’s watching us all very attentively.

“Delta. What do you think?” Asks Taylor. Kyle looks at me and I plead with him yet again to stop this nonesense, but the traitor smiles and says;

“It will be settled with a duel.’

I want to scream till my lungs collapse.

“This is ridiculous!” Rex laments.

“Good luck girls.” Says Kyle as he starts jogging for us to follow suit. I wish I could strangle his neck with my eyes. My heart is not only beating fast out of anger, but fear and nervousness.

Nelly seems to be mad at me for something. She looks very upset. She’s definitely going to summon all her Lycan strength during this duel today. I saw the look on her face when Landon praised me and said I was stronger than her. She didn’t look too happy about that, but she smiled from molar to play when the other guy praised her. She’s going to do everything in her power to win.

“Red!”

I cry out in agony, tapping my left hand on the mat and Nelly finally let’s go of my right hand. This is the tenth round and the eightth Nelly is winning.

“It’s over! Nelly is the winner!” Someone shouts out and they all go to lift Nelly up for proving Lycans are superior to ordinary werewolves in terms of strength.

She didn’t ge

what I Gi

y on me and that just confirms the fact that she’s upset with me. I wonder und her.

Alina keeps winking at me everytime our gazes meet. She’s enjoying my defeat. Good for her.

“You good?” Kyle catches up with me on my to the seats.

“Yeah.”

“You didn’t fight like always.” I stop walking and look at him.

“What do you mean?”

“You took several punches you could block or simply dodge. You fell too easily. You didn’t throw any meaningful punch or kick. Ashanti, I’ve watched you fight countless times, I’ve even fought with you.

You are a strong, tactful and resilient fighter. That’s not what I saw a few minutes ago.”

“I fought as best as I could.” I lie.

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“No, you did not.” He argues.

“And how do you know that?”

“I know you.” He sounds very confident. “Did you let her win on purpose?”

“What? No. Of course not!”

“So, you were distracted then.”

“Why does it even matter?” His gaze intensifies. He wants answers and I know he won’t let me go till I give him a proper explanation. “Fine. I was distracted.”

“And look where that got you. You lost a very important game.”

“I don’t care. What’s important is that I know my strengths. I’m no ordinary werewolf. I’m an Alpha werewolf and I didn’t just start training a few weeks ago like that guy claimed. I’ve been. learning how to fight since I was five years old and I’m here to learn new skills, not compete with anyone.”

I’m getting everyone’s attention, but I don’t care. I suck in a deep breath and train my eyes on Rex for a while before looking back at Kyle. “If they want to use my werewolf status to downgrade me so they can feel better about themselves as Lycans, so they can feel like they are superior to me, I urge them to go ahead and do so but I know who I am and that’s all what matters!” I am almost screaming by the time I finish that statement.

Yes, I’m angry.

Lycans never miss the opportunity to brag about their superiority to us, the normal. werewolves and I’m sick of it.

All eyes are on me and I know it, but I don’t care. I said what I said.

“Excuse me.” I don’t wait for Kyle to dismiss, I walk away from him to the sea ts where I pick up my back and head for the door.

“How did that feel?” Alina jumps in my way.

Get

your ugly face out of my sight, b i t c h!” I push her away and storm out of the arena,

fuming.