The Border Trilogy (Book #1) Enemies to lovers, Forbidden love

Part 13

"Hey Darien!" Aria went up to him to give him a hug when we reached the training grounds.

"Hey big brother!" Zane mimicked Aria in a girlish way and hugged him brother.

I smiled at the confused look in Darien's eyes when they hugged him. Strangely enough, he smiled at them.

"Uh, what's going on here?" he asked and looked at me.

I shrugged with my hands in my sweater pockets. "They uh, wanted to join. They say it's healthy for me to learn to fight people of different personalities instead of just one person,"

He looked at them, "That does make sense but knowing Zane and Aria, there has to be another reason."

I smiled at the fact that they knew each other so well, the same way Katrina knew that I'd been out with Lucien the night before I was caught. Suddenly I frowned at the thought of Lucien, realizing I hadn't even thought about him since I got here. What's up with that?

"Okay, we thought that it would be nice for Eva to have us around to make the training more fun," Aria said.

"Yea, we promise we'll be proffessional, we just want her to feel more comfortable." Zane looked at me, and then Darien looked at me.

I looked back at Darien and smiled, "I swear I didn't know that was the reason," I looked at Zane, "But thank you guys, I really appreciate you trying to make me feel more comfortable." I looked back at Darien. "But it's his call."

They both looked at Darien who looked from me to them. He shook his head and smiled, "Fine, if it'll make you feel more comfortable, they can stay."

"Yes!" Aria said and high fived Zane.

"But! You guys need to be serious about this, Eva needs to be ready when the Ra'am come, you can have fun with it, but on a professional level." Darien added.

"Oh we promise, it'll be proffessional," Zane smiled at me.

I looked at Darien who was smiling at me.

"I'm so gonna regret this," he said, still smiling.

"Oh come on big brother," Zane walked up to him and put his arm around his shoulders in a brotherly way and squeezed his arm around his neck. "This'll be fun for you too," Zane looked at me. "So, let's get started."

And with that, we began doing different techniques, I began with Zane, we fought until I somehow had him pinned while Aria and Darien fought. She looked up at me and smiled when she had Darien pinned down as well. We laughed and let the boys go.

"Clearly the girls are doing better, so how about you spar with each other and try to get better, while Eva and I spar and get better than we already are," Aria said.

Again I fought with Aria until I had her pinned down, I looked over at Darien who had Zane pinned. We looked at each other and he smiled at me first. We both stood up and let them go.

"Wow, look at that, the two best friends, both pinned down, what a shame." I teased and helped Aria up.

"Okay, now me and Aria get to watch you and Darien fight," Zane said brushing himself off.

Darien looked at me, "Well?" he suggested.

"Let's show em how it's done," I smiled.

We did a series of techniques, threw punches and kicks and ducked before one of us touched the other. When we finished, we looked at Zane and Aria who began clapping.

"Well, well, well, not bad at all," Zane said.

"Yea, you've been training well," Aria said.

"Yea, she's doing great," Darien complimented me.