My Best Friends Mate

Chapter Four- Blast from the Past

The next morning im up bright and early and in a much better mood. Theres a Keurig in my cabin that I take advantage of. I put on some comfortable workout clothes and head out the door making my way to the redwood packs training arena. I get there and see my brother. Alyssa is with him although I cant figure out why. Shes human and humans don’t normally train with us wolves. My brother sees me and waves then Alyssa walks up to me to formally introduce herself. She hugged me and said “its so good to see you and finally meet face to face”. I just smiled back at her. Shes slightly taller than me, about 5’9 with an athletic build. For a human I bet shes strong and active. Her chocolate skin glistens in the sun
and her hair jet black and short is stylish. It almost made me want to cut mine. Almost. I loved my long golden locks. Her eyes were this deep chocolate color with specks of gold. I can imagine my nieces or nephews. They’ll be gorgeous I thought to myself. Behind me I hear a voice that I hadn’t heard in a long time. “well if it isn’t Hudds little sister” Freaking Ryan.
I turned, leaving Alyssa’s grasp. I look him in the eyes and then say to my brother “I didn’t know this was
a trash collection site” my brother burst out laughing. Ryan just stared at me, looking at me like I had two head and 6 eyes. He scoffed and said “explains why youre here”. Dustin quickly intervened “alright guys, come on”. We stood there, staring at one another. I finally broke the silence “ im here to take the
trash out” and smirked a mischievous grin. Alyssa wide eyed, standing next to my brother who just rolled his and said “ want some gloves?” with a hint of laughter in his question.
I didn’t have the chance to answer. Ryan interjected. “get her some gloves”. My brother threw up his hands and said “here we go” turning to walk off with Alyssa.
As Ive said, I grew up with an older brother and his friends. My only friend growing up was JoAnna. I was
the annoying little sister who tagged along with her big brother and his friends. Those friends being Ryan
and Markus, the twins and future Alpha of my pack. Dustin was always nice to me, only teasing me as a big brother would. He was never mean to me. Ryan would let me tag along because Dustin was his best friend but he always acted differently towards me. Sometimes he was mean, other times Id see a
sensitive side of him when he didn’t think I was watching. Markus, his twin didn’t talk to me much but he was never mean to me, just..professional I suppose is the correct word. I grew up with these three,
training with these three. I wondered if the people here knew how deadly my brother and Ryan is. I wonder if they knew about me? Ryan had changed. He still had the jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. His hair had become slightly shaggier but still short. He was still well over 6 foot and pure muscle but
those muscles had inherited some tattoos. Tattoos covered both his arms in sleeves. He looked more confident and matured. What happened to him? He was suppose to be our alpha but gave it to Markus.
He had been sneaking off to other packs and even roaming the country himself before he finally made it back and him and my brother went to the redwood pack where I see now hes made a home. I guess this is where Beta John and Alpha Wyatt have been coming for business. My thoughts were interrupted when my brother yelled at everyone to get in formation. This pack was huge but I see the warriors were separated from the others whereas at silvermoon everyone trained together. My brother sent us all to run 20 laps. Of course, we always started with cardio. After we all spent some time on the weights he separated the warriors from the rest of the pack. Everyone was looking at me and I caught Ryan staring at me, like he was measuring up our soon to be spar session.
My brother walked up to me and put his arm around me while we stood in front of this packs warriors. Ryan stood on the other side of him.
“Alright listen up” he said “this is my sister Kiara. She is just visiting for spring break. Coming to see her favorite brother”
I interrupted him “youre my only brother”
“well that makes me youre favorite right?” he laughed before turning serious
“Kiara and I were both special forces in silver moon. She is their top warrior. She may or may not join us.
Its entirely up to her since shes here on vacation. Regardless, I expect you to show her the same respect you show me. And if any one of you f***ers touch her, ill rip out your throat” Everyone began whispering and staring at us.
Dustin turned to me and said “kiara, here the warriors train separately as their training is more rigorous.”
I nodded when I heard Ryan say “lets get started” I shot a suspicious look at my brother.Dustin shook his head and said “Ryan and I lead this and I shouldn’t have to explain why.”
He didn’t have to explain. Ryan and Dustin were the best. Rumors of them spread across the packs and the human world, dominating fight clubs. Then Dustins little sister came up and there was a new name circulating. Mine. Yet here I am running away from a breakup. Pathetic.
We spent the next hour out in the packs forest. I knew what they were doing. Ryan, Markus, Dustin and I did this outside of regular training back home. Its one thing to train in an arena , its an entirely other to train in the elements. The cold or hot, the wind, rain or snow. In water or on earth. To have to learn to
maneuver around trees and fight the wind to catch the scent of your target.
“lets go” I heard ryan say with a smirk. I followed him and my brother to a clearing in the forest.
“lets watch these two go at it” my brother laughed.
As I stand there, I begin to smell the air, getting used to the scent of the earth and Ryans. He smelled like cedar and camp fire. I quickly observed my surroundings. Heavy trees behind me, sound of water to my right, the warriors to my left and behind Ryan an open field with high stalks of wheat. He watched me and seemed surprised. A gust of wind blew
suddenly and I hear Dustin yell “FIGHT”
Ryan begins to stalk me, measuring me up, trying to figure out my weaknesses. He was calculative. I knew this wouldn’t be like Markus or Brett who were dumb enough to charge in so quickly without
knowing what they were up against. We circled eachother before he finally came for me with a right jab, I dodged it and pushed it away but Ryan was fast, he quickly managed to grab my other arm
attempting to throw me over him. Mid air I grab his arm,picking him up over me and land. We’re both standing there holding eachothers arms. We each throw blows blocking them, neither one of us landing a punch. As Im blocking
a punch, he lands a kick to my kidneys. That was smart. Block my vision and then kick so I cant block his
kick. He goes for a round house but I duck then landing an uppercut. As he recovers I sweep his legs
from underneath him. He falls and I get him in my full guard. Hes throwing punches when I quickly wrap
my legs around his waist and trap is arms in mine as theyre wrapped around his neck. He picks me up
and slams me against a tree repeatedly before I finally flip over him, grabbing by his arm and flipping him over me. He lands but quickly recovers. I pick up the dirt and blow it in the air. I disappear heading straight to the water. Exactly where I wanted him. He chases after me. Ryan may be stronger but Im
faster and training in the water with JoAnna would work in my favor. Thoughts of my best friend and I
sparring in the water crossed my mind for a moment, she taught me how to gracefully but swiftly move.
Ryan collides into me into the water. We fall in and hes behind me, holding me with my arms trapped
behind my head. I flip over in the water and get behind him before getting him in a rear naked choke. He struggles to get out of it. I drag him out of the water still in the rear naked. Everyone has followed us, all gawking. He buries his chin into my arm. I grab his nose with my other hand to raise his neck up but its
too late, hes already elbowed me in my stomach. I should have just let him pass out in the water in the rear choke but something told me not to. If it was anyone else I would have. When he was released from the rear choke he looked at me confused. Probably thinking the same thing I was. It was short lived
before we were at it again. We matched eachothers punches, kicks, and blocks. It looked like fighting a mirror. We fall to the ground both of us getting eachother in an ankle lock. We’re looking at eachother
as we both squeeze as hard as we can trying to get the other to submit. My brother is standing there watching and waiting. Ryan is strong and it was beginning to hurt. That’s when he did it. He smirked at me and called me cute. “cute?” I said and cocked my head. I then buryed my other leg into his hip. He yelled in pain. “Youre lucky its not youre groin jerk” I push myself to the side making him lose his grip on my
ankle. I get in his guard and finish him in a kimura. Ryan was just about to reposition when my brother
starts laughing and shouts “enough. You two are done”
Ryan and I stand up. I walk over to my brother slapping his back. “Good vacation so far bro” and walk
off. Everybody just staring at me.

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