The Witch's Alpha

Chapter 16

Alyssa gasped as she followed Declan up the drive way. She knew from the previous projections that he lived in a large house, but she was not expecting a mansion. The house before her looked like it was an old refurbished three story plantation house. The white Grecian columns framed the wide cover porch, while the balcony above lent a romantic air to the place. To Alyssa, it was love at first sight.

"Wow," she breathed as she met him at the foot of the stairs leading up to the central entrance way. "You live here?"

"Uh, yea. We all do. It's kind of a group home for everyone in the... company, at least until they decide they want to move out. There's about twenty people here now. The rest of the group is still in Florida, packing and shipping everything up here. They should be here by the end of the month, hopefully."

Before she could ask how many people were coming up, the front door opened, revealing Verona, followed closely by Connor.

"Hi, you must be Alyssa," the younger woman said, extending her hand. "I'm Verona, obviously, and this is Connor. I finally got him to agree to your suggestion, though I don't think he or Declan are very happy with the idea of getting beat up by girls."

Alyssa couldn't help but smile at the young lady's confidence. She had phoned on the ride over and explained her idea to Verona, who immediately jumped on the chance to show the arrogant guys that women are, in fact, not all that weak.

"Yea, I'm Alyssa. Nice to meet you. So where are we going to do this little shindig?"

"I've got the gym all prepped and ready to go. Do you need to borrow some clothes so you don't ruin what you're wearing?"

"No, thank you, I have my gym bag with me. If you could show me a place I can change, I could appreciate it," she told the other woman. She had planned on going to her kickboxing class after school, but that all changed when she went to the police station instead.

Grabbing her gym bag from her car, she then followed the young woman to a downstairs bathroom and changed. Once she was done, Verona then lead her to the basement where an indoor gym the length of the whole house had been set up.

"Wow. This is really nice," she told the group as a whole.

There was a large sparring area separated from the rest of the place, as well as state of the art equipment, free weights, barbells, tread mills; everything that goes in a gym was there. They even had a punching bag! Alyssa was excited to be there, to say the least.

"Ok, so who's going first? Alyssa and Declan? Connor and me? What's happening people?" Verona asked somewhat impatiently.

"Um, you and Connor first, I think. Then I'll take a go at him, if you don't beat him up too bad. If I win against Connor, then I'll go against Declan. I win, he apologizes, if he wins, you and I stop complaining when he's being a chauvinistic pig. That work for y'all?" Alyssa asked. "Oh, and guys, no backing off. We want a fair fight, don't we Verona?"

"Asbo-freakin-lutely!" the petite woman agreed.

The two men in the group didn't like the plan, but they reluctantly agreed to the terms Alyssa set forth.

As Declan and Alyssa left the sparring area to sit and wait for their turns, Alyssa noticed that a few more people showed up to watch the fight that was about to take place. Turning back to the brother and sister squaring off on the mat, she hoped Connor would give Verona a fair fight. Verona made the first move. While Connor was still trying to circle her, she leaped forward and landed a blow on his jaw, then danced back out of his way before he could land an answering blow to her midsection. While he was trying to correct his over reach caused by her swiftness, she landed a punch to his stomach, followed by a kick to his lower leg. He was able to finally land a bruising punch to Verona's stomach before she could jump back again.