Saving Gracie

Chapter 12

Gracie POV

I sensed a punch coming my way and I blocked and flipped the person. I cradled the person and was about to throw a punch when someone caught my arm. I look up to see Ric and Jam holding my arm back. Whaat.... I look down to see Ryder in shock and amusement. My eyes widen and I quickly jump off. He catches my ankle and I fall on my chest. Ouuuch... He did not just do that. "You did NOT just do that," I say disbelievingly. He smirked and said, "Oh yes I did." I glared at him and jumped out the balcony and grabbed the white iron. I see him and I smirk. "Meet me down at the gym. Bring anyone you want!" I say. It's time to spar with my mate.

I reach the gym and take off my shirt. Whew. Good thing I already had a sports bra on. I jog over to my locker and pull out some neon green running shorts to match my grey sports bra. As I was doing stretches I hear the door open and in comes Ryder, Carter, Daniel, a smirking Ric and Jam, Mar, Angie, and.....Larissa? The pack slut? Oh gawd.... She's wearing shorts that looked like they belong to Mindy. Her top if you can call it a top, barely covers her plastic boobs and her face was layered with makeup. Can I get a NASTY? As they come closer, I feel laughter in my throat and just let it out. I laughed so hard I saw stars. "What's so funny?" Carter asks. I look at him and my eyes wandered back to Larissa....cue the laughter. I sense Mar and Angie coming over and helping me up. They look at me then at Larissa and start laughing.

We ended up on the floor laughing our asses off. That chick is some funny crap. "Okay. Okay. Okay. I came here to watch you beat Ryder's tail not laugh my ass off," Angie says. I can see Ryder gulp which made me crack up again. I wipe he tears from my eyes and say, "Alright chickas. Clear the circle." They get up and move over to the edge of the circle along with the rest of the group besides Larissa. She was on a bench filing her nails. Ryder stepped in and said, "Are you serious about this? I don't want to hurt you." I look at him calmly, "I'm serious as I'm serious about someone taking my ice cream and that's extremely serious to me and you can't possibly hurt me," I say. He nods and he stands in a attack position. I hear 'go Gracie' and 'whoop his tail' along with 'who had the popcorn.' Did they seriously bring popcorn???

I stand with my fists up. He throws in a couple punches but they don't hurt at all. This douche is going easy on me!! I growl and punch him with a round house kick to the side. He looked shocked and his eyes darken. Holy avocado.... He shifts and lunges I run towards the wall and climb up while doing a backflip to land in his back. I instantly start petting behind his ears and he calms down and starts purring. "Aww does whittle Wyder wanna get pwetted by Gwacie???" I say in a baby voice. He barks approvingly and tackles me so I'm under him. He licks my face and nuzzles in my neck. I look over at the group and they were all grinning like idiots. I grinned at them back and abruptly stood up and shifted. I nodded my head and everyone else shifted. Mar's is a lovely gray, Angie is grey with more blue, Carter is dark grey, Daniel has a blue tint to his grey, Ric is navy, Jam is blue with a lot of grey, and Ryder is black. Everyone shifted except Larissa. I've seen her wolf before. We've gotten into a handful of fights. It's a murky brown like dirt and water mixed together. Everyone looked at her expectantly. "What? I have to file my nails," Larissa says. "Mhmm. Riiight," I say. We can talk in our wolf form, pretty cool huh? She glares at me and struts to the gym door. Whatever, she can leave. I don't even know who invited her. I sit down and watch everyone play and mess around. I feel someone's eyes on me and I shiver. I look to see Ryder staring at me. I cock my head to the side and ask, "Like what you see?" He gives me a wolfy grin and walks over. He sits next to me and says, "Are you okay?" What kind of questions is that????? "Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" I ask. "Just wondering about this morning," he confesses. I walk under him and rub against his neck. He purrs and I say, "It's okay. I promise." I feel sparks no wait, fireworks exploding in my body.

"My god Gracie. I will take him here right now if you don't quit!!"

"Do not dare to do that Sam. We are in my beautiful gym!!! I love this place to death."

"I know I know. Just keep the exploding down to a minimum."

I cut off the link and bark. "C'mon guys. Lunch is almost ready," I say. Everyone races each other to the back where clothes were stored. We line up outside the gym, ready to race in for food. "Ready," Angie says. "Set," Mar says. I wait a few seconds....."GO!!!!" I scream. As soon as I say that I bolt in and locate the kitchen via sniffing. I love this pack sooo much.

A/N: Now that Ryder and Gracie are together, what challenges do you think they'll face?? Will they make it or break it??