For the Taking ✅

12 • Questions

Seraphina POV

"Is this really necessary?" I panted.

Desmond thought it'd be a great idea to get me conditioned and trained. He thought I should know how to defend myself since I had never been properly trained. I thought to mention that getting trained was up to me back at my pack but I figured he already knew that.

I honestly looked forward to training but that was with the assumption that Desmond would be the one training me, not Ivy.

"Do you want to be easy prey?" I shook my head causing her to smirk. "Then yes, this is all very necessary." She tapped her sparing stick against my hip capturing my attention. "Now focus."

I swung the wooden staff I held towards her missing her completely. "What do you think I've been doing?" I was exasperated, I was giving it my all and I hadn't improved a bit and as Ivy struck my in the back with her stick from my lack of defense I grew aggravated.

I see why my pack never trained me, I was practically untrainable.

"You're mind is somewhere else." She said matter-of-factly putting her hand on her hip.

She wasn't wrong, I was more than distracted. Every thought I had revolved around Osiris. I couldn't forget his words from the other night, and I never brought myself to bring it up to Desmond. I'm sure he knew that I overheard everything but he too was avoiding the subject.

I knew that getting a second opinion would cause me some distress but I never thought that it would cause me to become angry. It was Osiris's fault though. He was so controlling, though I shouldn't have expected anything else form an alpha. I just didn't expect him to take out his aggression on his brother.

"Can I ask you something?"

Ivy tightened the glove on her hand as she replied. "If it's to end the training session early the answer is no."

"No, I wasn't going to ask that." Her eyebrow rose with curiosity. "Do they argue a lot?"

"The brothers?" She inquired with a smirk as I nodded. "They don't see eye to eye very often. Why do you ask?"

I looked around the empty gym listening and watching for other people. I didn't need more issues if someone decided to take this conversation elsewhere.

Satisfied with the silence I answered her. "I heard them the other day." I kept the details to a minimum. If I gave Ivy an inch she'd take a mile with this kind of information.

"You, heard them?" Her eyes looked curious, begging me to give more.

I ran my fingers over the grooves of the wood evading my eyes.

"I'm sure Desmond did something to piss Osiris off. It's nothing new boy has shits for brains." She rolled her eyes like it was a common occurrence putting the stick back against the wall. "As long as they don't get physical they usually can work their shit out."

I blinked recalling the loud commotion I heard that night. They had definitely got physical and though I couldn't see to confirm it the Desmond's coughs did. My fearful self crawled right back into bed that night too. I didn't want to be apart of whatever tantrum Osiris was in the midst of.