The following day, stepping out of my room, I find Theo standing in front of my door.
“Theo,” I say, a little surprised to see him.
“Come with me,” He says and walks down the stairs.
I follow him to the living room, and he does not speak until I sit down.
“I have realized that finding your mom by yourself is very important to you. I have decided to let you continue with your search on one condition,” He says, and for the first time since I met my mate, he has brought a smile to my face. I can’t believe he is allowing me to go and look for mom, but let me not rush to conclude, his condition might not be very favorable to me.
“What is your condition?”
“I must come with you.”
“You want to come with me. Why?” I ask, surprised that he wants to.
“It’s the only way I can ensure your safety and once we have found her. I can also make sure you come back with me.”
This is what the girls and I were talking about yesterday. He is so possessive over me, but that’s just it. He does not show any other emotion towards me.
“No problem,” I agree because at least I won’t have to worry about him stopping me again.
“That’s good, we leave tomorrow,” He says, standing up to leave
“Thank you”
“I didn’t have a choice,” He says and walks away.
The next day, I woke up early to get ready. I walk downstairs once I am done freshening up. Theo collects my bag from me once I reach the last step. I walk outside to the car so that we can get going. I see Charlotte , Chloe, Liam, and Dan waiting for us by the car.
“I can’t believe you are leaving again. I am going to miss you,” Chloe says, pulling me into a hug.
“Me too, but I am happy you are leaving this time with the king’s permission,” Charlotte says, joining in, in our hug.
“I am going to miss you guys too, and I am also happy he is allowing me to go this time.”
“I hope you find your mom soon,” Chloe says, releasing me from our hug.
“Me too, bye,” I say, entering the car.
“Bye,” They say, waving at me as Theo drives away. He got in before me after speaking to Dan and Liam. I am sure he was telling them how to handle things while he is away. Dan and Liam are going to be in charge until he comes back.
“Thank you again for helping me find my mom,” I say to him while he is driving.
“Like I said last night, I don’t have a choice.”
“I know, and I wanted to ask where are we going?”
“We are going back to the cabin.”
“Why are we going there?”
He must be talking about the cabin where I was staying with Scarlett’s trackers.
“A human claims to have seen your mom entering into vampire territory that is not far from the cabin.”
“I can’t believe Lucas was saying the truth that time.” I don’t know how to feel right now. I can’t be happy we finally found her because if she is in vampire territory, her chances of still being alive are really slim.
“Who is that?”
“The boy you almost killed last time, and are we going to go in? Won’t that be dangerous?” I am surprised he is willing to go into vampire territory to help me look for my mom. Theo might not be so horrible after all because agreeing to risk his life for me shows he is not a bad person and actually does not hate me.
“It is dangerous, and that’s why before we go in, we will be prepared and not go foolishly like you almost did.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You think I don’t know the real reason you had that horrible makeup on was that you wanted to enter vampire territory that night.”
“You knew,” I say, surprised he figured it out and is only talking about it now.
“I did and never try to risk your life like that again, never,” He threatens.
“I won’t, and how are we going to go in.”
“When the time is right, you will know. first, we have to train you before anything.”
“Train me for what.”
“In case you face any dangers when we enter.”
“Oh, that is actually a good idea” I agree with him. He can’t always be there to save me. I need to also learn how to defend myself.
“Yes, it is.”
I wake up the next day to a pair of blue orbs staring at me. I rub my eyes and sit up. Why is Theo’s face in my face? I wonder if something is wrong.
“Theo, what are you doing here?” I say, yawning. I am about to pick up my phone from under my pillow to check the time but don’t. I don’t want Theo to know I have a phone.
“It’s time for your training,” He says, and I look at him. He is dressed in a workout outfit.
“Isn’t it too early” My blinds are down, but I can still tell a little that it’s not bright outside yet?
“No, it’s not. You have ten minutes to get ready and meet me downstairs,” Theo says and walks out of my room.
Why are we training so early? I remove my phone from under my pillow, and the time is 6 a. m. I was right. It’s still very early in the morning. I think about arguing with Theo about it, but I know better than to waste my time. I climb out of bed and walk to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. I will shower after our training.
I walk downstairs once I am done dressing and freshening up a bit. I join Theo at the end of the stairs, and we walk outside together.
“This is how our training is going to be every day. We will run in human form for an hour and learn combat skills for two hours in the morning. In the evening, we will run again in wolf form to increase speed and fight to enhance wolf combat skills.”
“Okay,” Theo already has everything figured out for my training.
“Come closer”
“Why”
“Come closer,” He tells me again. I am a little confused as to why he wants me to come close to him. I don’t move immediately, so he drags me closer to him.
He pulls me by the waist closer to him, and because I was not expecting him to do that, I raise my hands to shield myself from bumping into his chest. My hands are on his chest, and his chest feels amazing under my hands. He bends down a little to wrap something on my waist, which causes his face to be closer to mine. I lick my lips as I stare at those gorgeous lips of his. I resist the urge to capture them in mine. His hair drops to his face, and I almost use my hands to move it away from his eyes.
“Let’s go,” He says once he is done with what he was doing on my waist.
Wait, what was he putting on my waist. I was so engrossed in admiring him that I didn’t bother to see what he was doing. I look down at my waist and notice he tied his jacket to my waist. Why. My outfit is a simple workout outfit, a long-sleeve tee, and leggings. I check my ass to see if something is on my ass, and he helped me cover it, but there is nothing. If anything, my ass looks nice in the leggings, bigger even.
“Why did you tie the jacket around my waist,” I ask, following him outside
“Because I don’t need any male seeing what’s mine?”
“What’s yours?” I ask, confused with what he is talking about.
“Yes, what’s mine, we are going running, and I don’t want those human males or unmated wolves to be staring at what’s mine,” He says, and it takes me a good minute to understand what he is talking about. I can’t believe he just claimed ownership over my ass. A smile graces my face towards his possessiveness over me for the first time because this time, he was not harsh about it.
“Okay,” I say, smiling.
We don’t even jog for more than ten minutes before I start feeling tired. I am not a fit person. The only reason I am not fat with the way I don’t bother to take care of my body is because I am a werewolf. The running-in wolf form keeps me from getting fat.
“Theo, can we take a break,” I say, panting almost out of breath.
“We just started, so no,” He says and continues running. I drag my lazy ass and try to catch up to him.
“Move it, Anastasia, we don’t have all day,” He yells at me because I am going at a slower pace than him.
“Sorry,” I say and try to increase my pace.
All morning the only words I heard in my ear were move it, don’t stop, keep it going. Theo is the worse trainer in this world. He was so harsh and pushed me to do everything. I could not feel tired.
We ran for an hour like he said and did some combat training. I almost cried every time Theo hit me. It was part of the training, but the pain was still real. I gave him a few punches, but it was like a baby punching a rock with my strength. He even said that he was going easy on me, and by the ending of our morning training, I looked like I fought a war. At night was the same thing; Theo beat my ass in wolf form.
The following days’ training is a little different but in a good way. Like today Theo decided to add a few more activities to help me build strength.
“Lift it” He screams at me to lift the tyre. He says it would help build my muscles and enhance my physical strength.
“I can’t lift it, Theo,” I say, dropping the tyre on the ground after lifting it halfway.
“You need to, now lift it,” He commands again.
I take a deep breath and use all the strength I have, and lift the tyre that feels like 1000kg to me, but I am sure it’s not.
After moving the tyre back and forth for about 15 minutes, we move to ropes. I feel like my hand will break every time I hit the rope hard on the ground. I can’t believe humans do this to stay fit. If not that I have to go into vampire territory, and I need this training. I will never do this in my lifetime.
In the evening, we train in wolf form. We just finished running, and it’s time for combat fighting in wolf form.
“Attack me” Theo mind links me in wolf form.
“Okay,” I say and try to attack him.
I run at full speed and try to attack him from under since he is bigger than me, but Theo anticipates it and catches me with his mouth, and throws me away from him. He did not dig his teeth too deep into me, so I am not severely injured. I hit a tree when he threw me, but I dust myself off and get back on my fours.
“Again,” He says, and this goes on for the rest of the evening.
I attack Theo; he flings me away or hits me. I don’t even get a chance to beat him once. By the time we are done, I am so exhausted that when I change back to human form. I just lie down behind the tree where I put my clothes. I know Theo is not hurting me intentionally, but my body is still receiving the hits his training is causing.
I am trying to gather the strength to stand up from the ground when I feel something dropped on me. I look up, and I see Theo bending down to lift me. He scoops me off the ground in his arms after he adjusts the light blanket he used to cover my body. I snuggle closer to him as the sound of his heartbeat calms me down. I unconsciously close my eyes and allow myself to sleep in my mate’s arms.