Dagger It was hard to see Hope so exhausted. It had been a couple of weeks since she had started training with Alice, and it looked like her mission was to kill Hope and Risk by overworking them. They had just been enduring it without complaint, but Ice had a new mission and I was sure he was going to take Risk with him, leaving Hope to face Alice alone. I didn't like that, but as my family had warned my cousin and me, our mates had to fight their own battles, and stepping up would only hurt them. Hope had a goal, one very important, and she was convinced that the training was helping. I wasn't so sure, since it looked like her body was suffering from the training, and not in the way it should. I was worried, and I didn't know what to do about it. I hated feeling so useless. I went to th