Her Vengeful Lycan Alpha
Chapter 68: Training

Chapter 68: Training

Chapter Sixty-Eight – Training

The maids gathered around, throwing flowers into the hole. Lia was crying uncontrollably, while being supported by Valkyrie. We were burying the body of Vista.

According to the maids, her body was probably the only one that got buried. Laurel was caught between mixed emotions towards the incident.

"Well, at least, the Prince’s match to the death are played by warriors of his own pack." a maid said. "Delta Sigma wanted us to participate but he left calling us fragile."

Laurel remembered him speak of it. She exhaled. Since Sorren and Jade were the bane of existence of the maids, it was good that there were slowly getting out of the way.

When Sorren would leave for the meeting, the maids could work with less fear for any sudden game he’d play.

After Vista’s burial, Laurel returned to her room to mentally prepare for the trip. Sorren’s conditions were still startling but she wanted to try it.

Going into a Kingdom of Lycans as a werewolf, and weak at that, would be really dangerous. Sorren didn’t value her too much to risk himself to protect her.

He was bringing her over to serve him after all, Laurel could guess he just wanted to eat at a table and be waited on hands and foot.

Her mate would be too busy dealing with his Alpha duties to even notice anything happening to her. She only had herself to protect her.

"Elma, Jessika said that werewolves and Lycans of higher ranks are more intone with their wolves. We need to be more intone—"

"How do you expect us to do that when you never shift!" Elma snapped before she’d finish.

Laurel’s shoulders fell. That was a problem on it’s own but it wasn’t her fault in anyway. If the warriors found a wolf, especially one with her ’unique’ color, it’d raise questions.

She still hasn’t been able to explain the different color of Elma’s fur so it was safe to keep it hidden till then. Laurel felt her thoughts dampen Elma’s confidence.

She quickly added. "What I mean is, these warriors already dislike that the enemy’s daughter is still alive. I don’t want them to feel threatened by something different."

If she becomes strong enough to fight without shifting, that was still tapping into Elma’s strength just not directly by being in wolf form.

Laurel had seen this with strong Lycans like Stefan, when dealing the intruding Lycan and Beta Cade when dealing with her. It’d be especially helpful if she could mimic that.

"Still!" Laurel sprang from her bed. "You are right that we need to train together to be more intone and I have to find a way to achieve that."

The forest that was the border between Silent River Pack and Green Valleys. A very open place, yet dangerous as rogues lurked around there.

But since Stefan’s encounter with the Lycan, other daring rogues had stayed far knowing the warriors would be extra merciless after their Alpha got hurt.

The princess hurried out of her room towards the kitchen. Jessika knew a secret passage out to that forest. She’d be leveraging that.

"The secret passage? Do you finally want to see Master Darren yourself?" Jessika whispered. Laurel shook her head in the negative.

Darren helped take her out of the prison, but she hadn’t done substantial since leaving. She was only in lead warrior rank, a rank all children of Alphas start from.

Perhaps when she got to a better rank, she would be able to look him in the eye confidently. After explaining her purpose to her, Jessika agreed to take her across.

The warriors didn’t know of the passage so it’s area wasn’t protected so they’d not be spotted as they cross.

But they were.

Jessika stayed behind as Laurel trained. She noticed the unusual color of the princess’s wolf but spoke nothing about it. It could be a unique feature anyway.

Silver wolves were now extinct in their part of the world so Blue wolves could be a new gift from the moon goddess.

After few hours of intensive solo training, Laurel collapsed on the ground. Jessika left the tree she leaned on. "Princess, I have to return now before it’s time for dinner."

"Wait—" Laurel coughed. "Help me practice sword dodging."

"That’s not a thing." Jessika folded her arms. "And you should learn sword skills instead of how to dodge them."

"I feel better using my body and wolf. And I’m going to the Lycans Pack Meeting as a maid. Why should a maid have a sword? But in case I’m attacked with one, I need to know how to dodge it."

Her reasons were sensible but Jessika was till skeptical, she only had basic sword skills herself. "We should give it a shot then. Anything to give you an edge over there."

The future of Green Valleys was marching to an enemy territory, Jessika hoped to brush up her spying and negotiation skills better.

Like how she infiltrated the Alpha’s quarters to trick Stefan, and the clean escape she made.

The princess also hoped to know more about the Lycans at High Moon Kingdom. Jessika knew of the preparations to attack Black Claws by the surviving Green Valleys’ warriors.

If it was successful, then High Moon Kingdom would be the only other threat they had. The more they knew of it, the better it’d be.

"Okay, all we need now is a sword." Jessika looked around. "Or should we use a really long stick?"

Laurel chuckled. "It’d be really funny dodging a stick being poked at me. But if we see something like that..."

Someone was coming. She froze, waving her hand to signal to Jessika who was engrossed in finding a stick.

"What are you two doing here?"

Jessika snapped her head to the direction. "Beta Cade!" She hurried to the princess. "The princess will be following Prince Sorren and the Alpha as a maid in wait. I wanted to show her plants she could use for emergency injuries."

Laurel stared at Jessika, surprised by how quickly she formed an excuse.

Jessika looked determined. As a cook, it was okay to leave the pack as long as she returned immediately, but it was different for maids as they were captors. She wouldn’t want her princess being punished in front of her.

"Hmm. Then why did the warriors at the border say they didn’t see you two pass the exit? How’d you leave then?"

Laurel gulped down saliva. Was he looking for them to have asked a warrior? She left Jessika’s back. "I wouldn’t have been allowed to pass so she sneaked out with me."

Two weak werewolfesses like them, sneak past warriors? Cade didn’t buy it. "You used a secret passage, didn’t you? I’ve heard of it before."

Jessika tried denying but Cade looked like he was sure it existed. She felt defeated. Will the princess really get punished because of her? "I only wanted to help, sir."

Cade studied at her defeated expression. Did she think he’d punish her for this? He didn’t plan to.

The only one to be punished was the maid for leaving when she was a captive but that wouldn’t seat with the cook either, would it?

He rubbed his face tiredly. He’d have to let them both go.

"Maid, go inside and never repeat this. Cook, leave to perform your duties. It’s almost dinnertime."

Laurel smirked. Her guess wasn’t farfetched after all. It was a random thought she had in mind but slowly Beta Cade’s actions had been confirming it.

He must have a soft spot for Jessika!

"Thank you, Beta Cade. I will never repeat such action." Laurel replied. She nudged Jessika to thank him as well, it’d make him more liable to want to please her again.

The cook bowed. "I’m very thankful for this, Beta."

Cade looked away but nodded.

The two hurried back to the maid quarters.