“Why do I have to do this?” Erick scowled as Luke led him to the gym.
There, several warriors were stretching and beginning their warm-up exercises. Today’s training focused on grappling and close-quarter techniques, so it paid to be limber.
“You came to train,” Luke said. “So you’ll train. You seem to have plenty of energy to make an annoyance of yourself, so you should have plenty for this too.”
Erick growled, “You can’t talk to me like that. You’re just a Beta.”
Luke smirked, “If you want to challenge me you’re welcome to try to take my place, though I’ll warn you challenges are to the death.”
“Why would I want to be a beta when I’m an alpha?”
“If you’d rather challenge Jason, that’s up to you,” Luke shrugged.
“Where is he anyway?” Erick demanded. “He should be the one escorting
