ELENE’S POV
Training had always belonged to other wolves. Stronger wolves. Wanted wolves. Wolves with pride, rank, or purpose.Not wolves like me. Even in my own pack I wasn’t even considered among the wolves that deserved to get some form of training. I was always left out on things like this and this was something that always bothered me. It felt as if Steven and everyone else were saying that I wasn’t goo enough. But today… today felt different. This time it was going to be different for me and I wasn’t going to allow anyone especially not Dante to ruin it for me.
Today my body ached from yesterday’s drills, and my palms were raw from gripping wooden practice blades. My thighs burned from sprinting laps around the clearing. But I welcomed every ache—every bruise—because at least pain i
