Chapter 316

316 What are the Odds!

The girl’s question broke most of the wolves from their trances and they shifted their attention back to the beta alpha that had been previously addressing them, “Not really, but... what are you wearing?” a feminine voice cut through the tension in the air. Despite the respect Katie’s presence commanded, this particular voice managed to pull off a bewildered tone, almost filled with disappointment.

Katie searched for the source of the voice until shortly after, she came face to face with Bella. The delta had made herself known to Katie for quite some time... even when she had done her best to vanish from the public eye in the past few weeks.

Katie had no strong opinion of the girl... yet, but was constantly reminded of how similar she was to Crysta when they’d met for the first time. Drawing from that experience, Katie couldn’t bring herself to be mad at Bella’s obnoxious behaviour... yet.

Katie then looked herself up and down quizzically, “A jacket and a wonderful one might I add, a shirt and heavy sweat pants... Is something wrong?”

“Very wrong. Who trains dressed like that? Do you want to drench those clothes or do you want to boil within them?” the girl continued to ask her, now implying something was wrong with the Luna.

“Oh no... You misunderstand. I’m not training with you today,” Katie hastily explained, starting to see that they were being a major distraction. Considering she was not going to train with them, she would have preferred to be invisible.

“Now, if I could have your attention,” Jason coughed, breaking their short argument. Katie silently thanked the man for saving her and dragged Sandra away from the delta and closer to the ring containing her mate and a very loved Jason.

Bella narrowed her eyes at the two, but said nothing and walked away. Everyone then turned their attention back to Alpha Jason, “Alpha Cross had several drills he would take you through. While I agree that they were essential, it’s not the training I’m used to as an individual and I honestly think we can do better.”

There were murmurs through the crowd, mostly of disapproval, until one of the wolves spoke up, “Alpha Cross’s drills were especially difficult to keep up with. Do you mean to tell us they are simply too easy for you?” a man asked. From the red hue in his eyes, Katie could tell he was able to speak up solely from his authority as an alpha, even though he didn’t carry the aura of an alpha that was also the head of a pack.

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“Cross’s drills were aimed at improving your strength and core endurance. However, that was all they were focused on. Nothing on here was meant to improve your coordination, agility or even your reflexes. There is a lot I could go on about what was wrong with his system, but I won’t get into that since this was still the stronger empire,”

‘Hey,’ Katie complained in the background, springing a smile to the alpha’s face. However, Jason continued with only a glance.

“For the first session of the morning, we shall...”

“I don’t see anything wrong with what Alpha Cross was training the Pack Warriors. They were particularly the strongest in the kingdom. Our Warriors are much stronger than those from the Sirius empire,” Bella was the one to object this time.

Katie found herself chuckling at her claim. Unfortunately for her, the whole room seemed to have gone quiet at the exact same moment she laughed. Noticing her error, her eyes darted about the room, “Did I say something funny?”

“No, you spoke the truth, but I didn’t think you would like to compare yourselves to them,” Katie replied casually.

“Why not?” the delta rolled her eyes. At this point, Katie was wondering whether to be impressed by her forwardness when speaking to high-ranking werewolves. It was rare for a delta to speak up to an alpha, not to mention... a beta alpha.

Thinking harder on it, she was also one of the few werewolves that could achieve a half shift. Katie wondered if there was a boost that it gave someone, but shelved the suspicion for later.

“Well, they don’t train to be able to handle themselves in a fight. They train to be better in self-defence. That said, they wouldn’t do well against hunters but can hold their own against average rogues. Not to mention, the hunters there will protect them from any threat worth the trouble.

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They train just about everyone in the pack, not just the Pack Warriors. The differences are quite many, come to think of it. Looking at this gathering, I can tell there is a large chunk of the Lycaon pack missing,” Katie replied, “Carry on, Jason. I’m sorry for the interruption.”

After apologising to Jason, Katie thought she imagined a gasp going through the crowd. Nevertheless, Jason picked up from where he’d left off without letting Bella counter. Katie could see the girl visibly holding back more of her... ‘opinions’.

“Luna Katie is right. We cannot compare ourselves to the wolves of the Sirius empire. It’s a much more docile...” ‘Wait, what...’ Katie mentally stormed the alpha’s mind.

Jason didn’t even show a sign of having heard her this time, “...pack and they choose to train everyone in the pack in the art of self-defence. The powerful pack Warriors from their pack have a separate training regimen that allows them to learn much more than just self-defence, but that can only get them so far when they also have to train with the rest of the pack.

All of you are to pair up now. Since I’m sure you all have fighting experience, I’m going to have you face off against each other. One of you will be on the offence while the other will be on evasion... And I mean evasion, not defence,” The alpha then turned to Katie and her best friend and called, “Sandra...”

“Yes, Jason,” another chorus of murmurs went through the crowd. ‘Did she forget he’s an alpha or is she naturally a brat?’ ‘I saw them holding hands the other day.’ ‘No way, you don’t think...’ ‘But she’s a hunter, she could at least show some respect.’

Ignoring the murmuring chaos that was starting to get louder, Jason spoke louder, commanding silence, “I would like you to help me with this one.”

Sandra paled at the request and started looking between Jason and Katie, accusingly.

Katie raised her hands in surrender, “Hey, you said I didn’t have to make you do anything and I didn’t... I’ll just get out of your line of sight, okay?”

The blue-eyed girl was out of her friend’s presence a moment later. Jason’s awaiting silence stopped Sandra from pulling the Luna back. Katie stepped away from them and watched as she was called into the training ring, grinning widely, ‘What are the odds?’

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