Falling For My Cruel Mate novel Chapter 13

"Does that happen often?" I ask curiously as I look around at all of the people sparring around me.

"It has happened a few times, but not recently."

I nods my head at her words, "So, who am I sparring up against?"

"Me." She smirks before attempting to throw a punch at me.

I duck quickly and take a fighting stance, with my legs spread and my fist up. "Thanks for the warning girlie." I say sarcastically.

"The are no warnings during pack wars." She points out before taking another swing at me. I duck once again but this time when I come up I jab her in the stomach and kick her in the side.

She lands a punch in my chin but I quickly deflect the rest of them and bring my knee into her gut. She doubles over for a second and I take it as an opportunity to knee her in the chin. She recovers quickly and lands a high kick on my shoulder and a punch to the cheek. I shake it off and raise my fist up once more and just as we're ready to go at it again Ajax steps into the middle.

"This hardly seems like a fair fight to me." He states looking down upon me. I raise my eyebrow in confusion.

"Why?" Cipher and I ask in unison.

"Well, Cipher is your friend. She would never really do anything to harm you." He had almost an evil glint in his eye. Where did he even come from? It's like he evaporated out of thin air into the middle of us sparring.

"I don't know, that punch was pretty narly." I say jokingly as I run my hand across my cheek. It really didn't hurt all that much, but I wanted to tease him a bit.

"What's your point Ajax?" Cipher growled out.

"My point is, she needs to go up against someone who doesn't know her. Someone who'll actually challenge her." He gives us a hard look as he crosses his arms over his chest. I roll my eyes. Must he be so annoying? He probably just wants to see me get hurt. Asshole.

"Fine," I spit out harshly. "Whom do you suggest I spar with?"

He smirks and calls out, "Diana!" In his big Alpha tone. I look around and spot an auburn haired girl perk up at the sound of her name. She had on small tight spandex shorts and a sports bra. Her build was very similar to Ciphers only she was a bit shorter. The girls eyes lit up like a Christmas tree at the sight of Ajax, making my wolf a bit uneasy due to the mate bond. She trotted over here like a winning pony at a show.

Cipher let out a grunt and rolled her eyes. I shifted on my feet suddenly very annoyed.