Jordan POV.
After the run, I expected to be done for the day, but that wasn’t alpha Balde’s plan, after kicking his ass in running, it’s time to shower? Breakfast maybe? But nope, nothing, it was all different around here, we got some food, it’s more of a granola bar and water, that’s about it, I sat next to Micah, people don’t question us sitting together, I guess most think the young alpha is just keeping an eye on me, while I’m the one keeping an eye on him.
We ate out makeshift breakfast, Joshua was being teased by the rest, turn out the hell army does talk, they were teasing him about losing, about how we are much faster than him, his answer was to growl at them and finish his food, things are going to get worse before they got better, god helps me survive this training, I’m going to go back home ripped. After the food, we all moved outside, back to the cold outside, why can’t we stay inside? Isn’t running enough? We’ve run enough for the day, can’t we exercise inside the house, in a warmer environment?
The alpha got a whole training track set outside in the dark, this is worse than the Russian army training courses, I used to watch videos about them, and now I’m looking at the course in front of me, ice covering the whole thing, this looks like some kind of torture, and we are going to do this? I stood close to my mate, he had a frown on his face, I would frown to seeing this course, I know I was sent here to be trained, but this is way too much.
“Ready?” Micah whispered to me, he keeps our talk to minimal when people are around us.
“Sure, let’s take over the world,” I whisper back, I have to do this, one way or another.
“You know the drills! Two at a time, I want to see you pushing it, some of us have taken a week off, let’s show them how we do this, let’s go!” the alpha yells, does he mean us taking a week off, even in the army get few days off every now and then.
“You two, let’s go,” the alpha pushes two poor guys first, I could see them taking off running, they had a long way to go, the others went ahead of us when Micah’s turn came, I wanted to stand beside him, I want to go with him to help him if he needs me, but the alpha stopped me, he wasn’t going to allow me to go with my mate, my wolf wanted to growl, but I swallow it down, we can’t growl at the alpha yet, we can do this, and then we’d take my mate home and cuddle him the whole day.
“Joshua, show the new boy how things are done,” the alpha says, Joshua, why did he have to send me with Joshua, I growled, but took off running alongside him, I had won this morning and beaten him up, it’s time to show him who’s boss again.
The course started with us running, I and Joshua were head to head, the first obstacle happened to be climbing walls. Him being familiar with the course knew where to go, he jumped up flexing his muscles in front of me, but I was quick to follow, I jumped up too, using my arm strength to pull myself up following Joshua, the other side of the wall was a rope, I held into it sliding down the other side.
The course didn’t end there, but I’ve managed to beat Joshua on the first go, next came another wall to climb, knowing what was ahead of me, I ran as quickly as possible, jumping up the wall, climbing up, pulling myself to the other side, I started to climb down, but Joshua was faster, he jumped down ignoring the height of fall. I made it all the way down, before going over the next obstacle, belly crawling underneath some barbered wired, I had never done this before, but I’m trying, I kicked with my feet, but the back of my hoodie was getting tangled with the wires, my back was getting scratched, but I kept pushing myself forward.
Joshua managed to win this one over, I was hurt and scratched by the time I came out, but I had to keep on pushing myself, keep on moving, next was rope climbing, I pulled myself up seeing the back of Joshua, I could just see his smug smile right now, I couldn’t let him win, I kept pushing myself making it up to the top, but things didn’t stop there, not in this hell, the sick alpha wouldn’t go easy on his trainee. My arms are now aching my back is scratched and hurt, but the drill isn’t over, monkey bars?
Or so I’d call them, I haven’t gotten up on one of those in so long, my arms were aching so badly, but I managed to push myself forward, kept pushing myself until I made it to the end, jumping down, finally getting to the end of the track, I saw Micah standing in the end, I wanted to go toward him, to hug him, I was exhausted. But I couldn’t do that not with everyone around us, I saw Joshua standing there, gloating about his win, he only won over me since he was used to all of that course.
“Told you I’m the boss! Not some random boy” Joshua says making my wolf growl, I’d get his ass, just not right now.
“Are you okay, Jordan?” Micah asks me, seeing my sweaty face, my bruised back and bruised arms.
“Yeah, I’m fine,” I say biting down on my lips, I was in pain, but I won’t show it inside of some random people.
“Good job boys, I like to see you all sweat,” the alpha says joining us at the end of the track, he’s a big narcissist happy about us sweating? He looked me up and down seeing my bloody back, he was happy seeing that, I could tell from his smile.
“This isn’t Kansas anymore,” he says with his sadistic smile, I was done for the day, please say we’re done.
“Lose the shirts boys, we’re going on again,” the alpha orders, again? He want us to run this drill again, I wasn’t one to pull back I would, I lost my shirt exposing my raw bed, seeing Micah eyeing me before he lost his shirt too, I could see how slim my mate really is, that boy hardly get any food or nutrient.