Bound with fear

Training

……………… Something shook me I opened my eyes Iagan was standing over me.

“You need to get up and dressed I’ll go fetch you food” he was abrupt as he spoke “You’re clothing is over there on the chair” he strode across the room

“Are you alright” I asked sitting up and scrubbing my hands over my face

“Hmm” he opened the door and walked out I shook my head and got out of bed I picked up the thin clothes and looked at them so different to what I’d been dressed in before. I walked into the bathroom and dressed looking at myself in the full length mirror at the material that hugged every curvy of my body I heard the door to my bedroom open I looked out as Iagan placed a tray onto the table, he looked up his eyes meeting with mine “Eat we have a long day”

“Did you not rest well? I asked walking toward him

“Well enough” he shrugged “eat”

“then why so grouchy this morning?”

“I have things on my mind” he couldn’t look at me now “Things that shouldn’t be”

“You might feel better if you tell me about them” I took a bite into the food on the plate

“And I may not” he paced the room

“How’s is your sister?’

“Well Robbie is… well doing fine looking after her” he sighed

“I told him to so he will… just because he and you share Mia doesn’t mean” Iagan’s look cut me off

“We do not share a woman… we will never share a woman” he all but growled at me

“So you say but Guardian you become defensive when her mere name is mentioned” I smiled

“It is not her I’m concerned with Mo bhean she is nothing but a whore” I frowned “Oh lord preserve me” he groaned “She is a woman that lays with many men for pleasure she takes more than one of us inside her for our relief nothing more and nothing for you to worry yourself with”

“And you seek pleasure like that after so many others have been there before”

“I’m a man Kendra it’s what I do” he cocked his head “when things get too much I lash out or I get inside of the nearest whore”

“You like a woman under you”

“Yes no woman should be on top of a guardian” he narrowed his eyes at me “We need to begin the training” he walked to the door and waited for me “I will not take it easy on you’

“Did I ask you too?” I put my hands on my hips.

“No I was just informing you” he opened the door I walked over to him there was an uneasy silence between the two of us as we walked through the house no one else was around.

“Where is everyone?”

“Still sleeping apart from the warriors already out triaing and the cooks that feed them” Iagan took a deep breath as he pushed open the doors to the room where I’d met my Father the day before “Wait while I light the candles” he instructed

“I could just do it for you”

Very well” he smiled folding his arms, I took the deep breath and felt the instant heat warm my hands fire danced in balls from the tips lighting the candles round the room I let out a gasp as hooded figures were illuminated kneeing on the floor heads bowed.

“What’s this?” I looked at Iagan

“You’re training” he shrugged shedding his cloak and shirt the bright red welts criss-crossed his whole upper body left from my father’s punishment. I dropped my eyes a feeling that it was my fault. “It’s part of my life” he murmured stepping closer to me sensing my thoughts again “Next time I fail you will be getting a new guardian” he warned

“No” I shook my head “No one else” I reached to put my hand on his chest he knocked it out of the way swinging his leg round as he did it taking my legs from under me and slamming me into the stone floor his hand at my throat

“Lesson one… never drop your guard” he eased his hand from my neck and pulled me to my feet. He circled me “People will come at you from different directions” suddenly his blade was pressed to the side of my neck and I was on my knees his free arm looped between my arms pining them back pulling me arched against him “They will take advantage of you for being slow and weak” he released his hold and put his blade back in the sheath at his hip and pulled me back to my feet. I was pissed with him now as he circled again I shivered as the cold shill spread over me “Oh Damn” he skidded and slipped on the ice that appeared under his feet I pinned him to the floor moving with speed I didn’t know I possessed pulling his blade from its sheath. His hand came up and caught my wrist as my knees straddled each side of his chest his grip increasing until the pain forced em to let go of the blade. “I wasn’t expecting that” I smiled down at him letting my guard down slightly allowing him to knock me to the side and pin me to the floor him straddling me like the first time I saw him “But you are still a girl letting the guard down it was easy to take the blade and pin you” He pushed up off the floor and got to his feet, this time waiting for me to get up myself.

“Give me time Guardian I will have you under me?” I shook my head as I got to my feet the hooded figures murmuring between themselves…………………..