~Knox~

I've seen hundreds of training grounds, thousands of training exercises but something piqued my interest about training at the Dark Phantom pack.

With the meeting finished, everyone went about their normal business and I joined Jaxon and Jace as they walked towards training.

I was in desperate need for a ride on my bike, I needed to clear my head...get my focus back. Something that only a ride on my bike could achieve. I've been around alpha families before, but this one was different...

"Do you have to be such a dick?" Jace nudges Jaxon's shoulder as he overtakes him slightly coming down a small hill towards the training ground.

"What?" Jaxon looks up from his phone to scowl at Jace.

"Josie..."

"You're happy that she's training with guns?"

"If it keeps her happy."

"Jace. You can't be serious?" Jaxon stops dead in his tracks, growling at his brother.novelbin

"Nobody is pointing a gun at her, she's doing the shooting...I don't really see the problem."

Jaxon looks to me, as if suddenly remembering I was here with them before he pulls Jace back by his elbow, their conversation swiftly moving on only through mind-link.

I take that as my cue to move on. The ride on my bike couldn't come quick enough.

I continue towards the training ground, finding the warriors already out, huddled together in a circle as they boisterously cheer at one another. The level of pumped up testosterone putting even my alpha training exercises to shame. Well at least they know how to psych each other up for a morning's training session.

As I get closer I stand back, letting them continue with their cheers, all of them holding something in their hands.

A young lad, most likely having only just joined the warriors waves something in the air in glee before they all cheer at him, his hair being messed up and his chest being pounded on as his pack members congratulate him.

"What's all this?" I take a step closer, curiosity getting the better of me as I want to know more. Their bodies stopping simultaneously as they turn around to realise, they have an audience...their alphas also walking towards them.

"Just getting ready for training..." A cocky mouthed male smirks back at me, his arms crossing hiding the object even more.

Does this shit think he could keep that thing hidden, beat me in a fight...

I'm the trainer of alphas, I train the males that train him, keep him alive. There isn't a person here who isn't a match for me.

"Training doesn't start until your alphas are here, so what is all this?" My chest puffs out as my eyes roam amongst them, these were the warriors of the notorious Dark Phantom pack...what were they playing at. "Maybe I should fetch Alpha Hector?" I threaten with a smirk.

"Look...it's just a joke we play." The male with his arms crossed sighs out.

"A joke?"

"It's a lads thing, you know?"

"A lad's thing...no I don't know so why don't you tell me." I bluntly reply.

"Just don't tell the alphas."

"I won't make such promises..."

He pulls his hands away from his chest to reveal a long white straw. What the fuck, they all have a white straw in their hands..

"What is this shit?" I pluck the straw from his fingers, looking at it with confusion.

"We draw straws..."

"For what purpose?"

"For which one of us gets to spend time with the alpha's daughter."

Red?

They can't be serious...

"Let me get this straight? You draw straws to select one of you to be injured enough that you need to go to the hospital?" I want to burst out into laughter, until the cocky prick opens his mouth again. "Have you seen her? We all need an opportunity to tap that."

I burn red, hot molten rage erupts within me from his comment...tap that? Like she was a piece of meat just waiting to be explored they their hands.

The energy it takes to keep my wolf below the surface is unmeasurable.

"And you take it in turns?"

"Yes, one at a time. We draw the straws to keep it fair."

Fair?

"I think we can do better than that..." I toss the straw to the ground before stamping on it with my boot.

I'm on him in a flash, his cocky arrogant smirk wiped off his face as I knock him to the ground and grip his arm behind him.

Pain echoes from his mouth, a resonating snap joins his cries as I lift his arm towards his shoulder blade...a bone snapping through and piercing out.

"What is going on?" Jaxon is behind me instantly, but he doesn't pull me off his pack member.

"An important training exercise Alpha...respect." I growl out in disapproval.

I stand up, my eyes looking at each male holding a straw. I can't believe they would abuse their positons, disrespect their title as warriors even if they think it is for a game.