Chained Hearts

The King Has Fallen

I head outside to the practice field ready to kick some butt. Alexander is still here and I am more annoyed. I need to let that frustration out. I am changed in black work out shorts and a black tank top ready to fight.

Almost every one is sparring against someone right now. The ones who aren't are exercising.

Raven walks up to me with a little fire in her eyes. She wants to spar. Well, this will be fun.

We both smile wickedly at launch ourselves at each other.

Raven comes running towards me in full force and I grab her by the wrist twisting it so she falls on one knee and kick her on the torso so she is flat on the ground.

She groans and gets right back up. This time she kicks my behind my knees so my legs buckle beneath me and I fall.

I get back up within a second and try to roundhouse her. She catches my leg and I jump in the air and twist so I still get a hit at her. Raven falls to the ground and I hover over her. She grabs my leg and pulls me down rolling me over so she is on top and gets a good punch at my stomach.

" Enough!" Shouts my dad as Raven and me get off the ground and laugh. My dad has always thought that if me and Raven get too carried away we will kill each other.

" Nice job Ava." Raven says as she walks back to the pack house with Mason behind her. She and him and are going on a date today. Tonight she is moving into the castle. I am going to miss her but I will visit her everyday or she will visit me. 

I look around to see who else is free to spar and my eyes land on Alexander. He had somehow managed to change into black sweats and and a wife beater.

He is also the only one free. My mom and dad are sparring against each other. They still have a lot of fight left in them.

What if I make a deal with Alexander.

I walk up to him and his eyes roam my body. Boys.

" Spar with me. If I win you leave, if you win you can stay the day and even tomorrow." I say to him and he looks down at me with a smile.

" Sure thing babe" He says and I swear I wanna punch the life out of him.

" Who ever has the person down for more than five seconds wins." Alexander says and I nod.

We walk to the middle of the field and the pack starts to gather around to see us.

We look at each other ready to fight. I go running towards him to jump and land a punch on his jaw but mid air he grabs me and has me on the ground with me beneath him. I quickly shift my hips so I roll on top of him. Before five seconds even go by he pushes me off and we both stand up.

I try to roundhouse him but he grabs my leg. I try to to do the same thing I did with Raven by twisting my body in air but he grabs my other leg and pulls my body flush against his with on leg held up by his waist.

Our breaths are fast and so close as my heart hammers against my chest. If I move an inch our lips  will touch.

I push myself away from him and kick behind his knees and he falls to the ground. I quickly place my foot on his chest.

" The king has fallen" I say with a smirk.

" Not for long enough though" He says and I get confused. Before I know it he grabs my leg with his arm and pulls me down. He climbs on top of me and has my arms pinned down.

Alexander starts to count down from five and I panic. I try every way to get up but I can't. It's like he was holding back all of his power for this one moment.

He hits one and my heart sinks. My plan just backfired on me. Alexander just smiles widely and gets off of my while pulling me up with him.

I just realized this whole time he has not tried to attack me. He as only been blocking my attempts at him.

" Well, I believe I should call Mason to go get some more of my clothes since I am here tomorrow." He says and I roll my eyes.

" Whatever, it was worth a shot." I say and walk away. A small part of me is happy that I lost.

The whole pack eventually stops staring and goes back to practice.

I walk to one of the pack members who is no longer sparring and ask him to spar with me. I need to let even more frustration out now more than ever.

He says yes and we start. His name is Henry. He is the mate of Davids cousin Lilly. Henry comes at me with a round house and I block it by ducking down. He tries to punch me too and I grab his arm before his fist even touched me and throw him on the ground.

He gets back up after a minute and grabs me by the leg and throws me into the tree behind me.

This time I don't get back up since my back just feels like it has been shattered into pieces. As I lay there looking up at the blue sky an Earth shattering growl is heard.

Oh no. I quickly get back up ignoring the pain in my body begging me not too and see Henry pinned against a tree by a furious Alexander. His feet are dangling at least a foot in the air and I immediately run over to them.

" Get off of him. It's okay. I asked him to spar with me." I say as I try my best to pull Alexander off of Henry.

" He hurt you" His voice comes out animalistic.

" That's going to happen in sparring genius." I say and eventually get him off of Henry. Henry quickly thanks me and runs back in the pack house.

" You can't go and nearly kill everyone that hurts me. I am going to get hurt Alexander. It is what makes me strong and what sparring is for." I explain to him and his anger does not even decrease in the slightest bit.

" Watch me" He says and goes storming off into the woods.

I quickly run after him afraid that he will hurt someone else or even himself in this rage.

" Stop it. Just come back." I shout after him and he does not stop. I mind link Mason explaining the situation and asking how to calm him down as I follow behind Alexander.

I get a mind link from Mason telling me that Alexander needs the touch of his mate to calm him down and for me to be near him as close as possible.

My life just gets better and better, note the sarcasm.

I quickly thank Mason and run up to Alexander. Right now I am in front of him stopping him from going any further.

He glares at me to move but I glare right back. I sigh and reach up to hug him. My arms wrap around his neck as I am on my tippy toes to even reach around his neck and I am still struggling.

His arms grab me by my thighs and joist me up so my legs are wrapped around his waist. His nose is in the crook of my neck. We stay there like this for about ten minutes.

I slowly pull back and look into his beautiful eyes. He does the same. Alexanders head starts leaning in and so does mine. My brain is screaming stop while my heart is screaming yes.

Our lips are so close.