A Warrior's Second Chance (Faye and Alexander) novel Chapter 610

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Chapter 591

BLOOD CRESCENT

FAYE

My fist flew toward Irene’s shoulder.

She caught my wrist before it landed, twisted it away, and came back with a kick aimed at my

side.

I blocked it with my forearm and immediately swept my leg toward hers.

She jumped over it.

The moment she landed, she drove another punch toward my face.

I ducked under it and laughed.

“You’re getting predictable.”

“Oh?” Irene smirked. “We’ll see about that.”

She came at me again without giving me time to breathe.

We circled each other across the training mat, exchanging punches, kicks, blocks, and counters. Around us, other warriors continued their own training, but neither of us paid them

any attention.

This wasn’t unusual.

Whenever Irene and I trained together, it always became a competition. After Kyle, Irene was

my next favourite competition.

Neither of us liked losing. She threw another kick. I caught her ankle, forcing her to hop once before she twisted out of my grip and shoved me backward with both hands.

I slid across the mat, steadied myself, then charged right back at her.

She laughed.

“There she is.”

At some point, my thoughts began to drift off. I barely heard her. My body was moving on instinct, but my mind wasn’t here.

It was somewhere else… with Helen.

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I blocked another strike before stepping aside. I still couldn’t understand it.

Out of everyone I knew… Helen was the last person I expected to accept defeat.

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She had never been the kind of woman who simply folded her hands and waited for things to

happen.

She found solutions. That was what she did. When every healer would have given up on me…

When everyone believed there was no way I could survive…

Helen had refused to accept it. She had searched until she found an answer.

She had overturned everything people believed was possible. She had reached into dark magic that she herself had abandoned years ago.

She had paid a terrible price to save me. That was the Helen I knew.

So why was she different now?

Why was she sitting there calmly, counting down the days until her own death?

I couldn’t understand it… I wouldn’t understand it. There had to be another way.

There had to be. If Helen had been willing to turn the world upside down for me… If she had gone the extra mile to cheat death for me.

Why wasn’t she willing to do the same for herself?

The thought refused to leave me. It irritated me more every time it came back.

I barely noticed Irene’s fist until it tapped my shoulder.

“Point.”

I blinked.

“What?”

She folded her arms.

“I just hit you.”

I frowned.

“I blocked that.”

“You blocked the first one.”

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She grinned.

“The second one landed.”

I let out a slow breath and rubbed the back of my neck.

“Again.”

She didn’t question it. She immediately raised her hands. We started moving again.

This time, I was more focused. At least for a while. I landed a clean punch against her

shoulder. She retaliated with a spinning kick that I narrowly avoided.

I laughed despite myself.

“You’ve been practising… I think Jeffery is doing a good job with you.”

She shrugged casually.

“You’ve become annoyingly difficult to beat,” I said.

She smirked. “I’ll take that as a compliment.”

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She rushed me again. I stepped back. Our movements became faster. The energy between

us rose with every exchange.

Anyone watching would probably think we were completely absorbed in the fight.

Then Helen’s face flashed through my mind again. That would be the tenth time since we

started training.

I stopped… completely. Irene’s punch froze halfway.

She lowered her hands immediately.

“What happened?” Irene asked.

I looked at her without really seeing her.

“1…”

I shook my head.

“I think I’m done.”

She stared at me.

“Done?”

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I nodded once.

“I’ve had enough for one day.”

She studied my face for a few seconds.

“What is wrong with you?”

The question was casual. I forced a small shrug.

“I just remembered something.”

“What?”

“I missed Sage’s call yesterday.”

The words came easily.

“I completely forgot to return it.”

I picked up the towel beside the mat and wiped the sweat from my face.

“And I have some paperwork I was supposed to finish.”

Irene accepted the answer without much thought.

“Oh.”

She stretched both arms over her head.

“I was wondering why you kept drifting off.”

I smiled weakly.

“Sorry.”

She waved dismissively. “It’s fine.”

Then she laughed. “I’m tired anyway.”

She rolled her shoulders.

“I don’t think I have another round in me.”

That made me smile properly for the first time since we’d started.

“I’ll make it up to you,” I said.

“You’d better.”

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I nodded before turning toward the pack house.

The walk back felt strangely quiet.

Usually, training cleared my head. Today, it had done the exact opposite.

The more I tried to distract myself, the more determined my thoughts became.

There had to be something. A spell, a healer, an ancient ritual.

Anything.

Helen couldn’t just… I refused to finish that thought.

By the time I entered the house, I headed straight upstairs. I didn’t stop to greet anyone.

I didn’t feel like talking.

I walked directly into my room, grabbed a towel, and disappeared into the bathroom. The warm water hit my skin almost immediately.

Normally, showers helped me relax after training. Today, they only gave me more time to think. Everything seemed to be going against me today.

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I scrubbed away the sweat, rinsed my hair, and stayed beneath the water for several minutes before finally turning it off.

After drying myself, I wrapped a soft robe around my body and stepped back into the

bedroom.

The room was empty. I was happy Alexander was busy and hadn’t noticed me yet. But I still needed to see him. Maybe his presence was the grounding I needed.

But I had to actually return Sage’s call first.

I climbed onto the bed, leaned comfortably against the headboard, and reached for my phone

on the bedside table.

For a moment, I simply looked at Sage’s name on the screen, wondering if I was ready for the

call.

Then I tapped it and lifted the phone to my ear as it began to ring.

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