Chapter 26

Ava

I threw myself to the ground with my back, shortness of breath, and bile running up in my mouth as I tried to catch my breath from the hour-long run that Austin tyrant had just made me do.

" Ava," he said, and his head popped into my view. His clear eyes were fixed on mine, and he frowned on his forehead as he looked at me with his hands on his hips, impatient." We're not done," he said, scolding me.

"I'm about to faint," I complained, breathless.

"you are a wolf, you won't faint," he said, shaking his head.

"I'm not a wolf, I don't have a wolf, and I'm about to faint, Austin, my head is spinning," I said, running my tongue over my dry lips.

Austin sighed and then looked up at the sky, which became clearer and clearer. It was my fifth training day, and I was already regretting everything. This life was not for me, I didn't need to get up every day before the sun rose to train, but neither did I want to die by the time I reached eighteen.

The fact that I had spent the last f