The Hunter's Empire

Unforgiving Actions

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I headed towards the sparring cage, already spotting the two males warming up. They looked my way when I entered the large fighting cage, I was excited to finally train after so long. 

I began to stretch my limbs and warm my body for the upcoming physical strain on them. All I had to worry about was to not expose myself in front of Luca, he wasn't aware of the physical benefits the Light Gene blessed me with. 

Luca's crimson eyes slowly swept me up and down, shamelessly checking me out. I abruptly stopped stretching and glared at him, catching him in the act. He didn't seemed fazed by my scowling, as a teasing smile lingered his lips. 

"Leather, huh?" He smirked, commenting on my choice. 

I raised my eyebrow at him. "It's warrior uniform."

"I know." He responded simply. His intense eyes swept over my body one last time, before finally turning away. 

Annoyance boiled within me, has he no shame? Looking at his brother's mate like that, it's fucking weird.

Kyle noticed this too, looking between us with a confused expression. "Okay, so who's fighting who?" He finally said, shaking it off. "Tic tac toe?" 

I nodded, totally fine with that. 

Luca looked between us in confusion. "What's tic tac toe?" 

We blinked at him, taken aback by his question. "Huh? It's a game...wait, have you never played it before?" Kyle exclaimed, bringing his hands to his head in shock. 

"Ah, you may know it as rock, paper, scissors." I told him, realisation hitting me. 

His eyes widened before he burst into laughter. "Oh, that! Why do you call it tic, tac, two?" 

"Toe." I corrected him. "And, I don't know. Did you grow up in New York?"

"Not as much as Lucio, I travelled around a lot more. Stayed in Europe a lot of the time."

"You know..." Kyle began to say sheepishly. "I'm not up for fight any of you two, maybe someone else." 

I tilted my head at him, he was much stronger than he let on or believed. "Why?"

"I don't wanna fight you, I don't think I'm ready. As for Luca, he's an Alpha blooded wolf whose been fighting for a living." Kyle responded thoughtfully. We had trained together countless of times, but had never had a serious fight. 

Luca didn't mind this as he cracked his fingers excitedly. "Looks like we'll be fighting each other." He retorted, grinning at me.

I was still looking at Kyle. "We'll fight each other soon, we need to." I told him seriously. "It will do both you and me good, so I look forward to it."

He nodded at me with a smile, accepting my request. "So Maya verses Luca, this'll be very interesting."

It will.

"Please make your way to the middle of the cage, and get into positions." Kyle announced, behaving like an invigilator. "This match will purely be MMA fighting so no weapons allowed, of course. Shake hands and retreat back more than the minimum amount of three steps."

We headed to the middle, and stood facing each other. He held out his hand, offering a handshake first to which I accepted. His warm, big hand gripped my smaller one with purpose and determination. 

"Let's have a good fight." He said with a small nod. 

I smiled genuinely and said, "Let's do that."