Alpha Damien's Trouble Maker (by Ruby Anne) novel Chapter 202

202 Eyes on me, kid

2021Eyes on me, kid

Caspian

I stood right there in the center of the arena with the weight of thousands of eyes pressing down on me from every side, the noise from the crowd finally settled down. My fingers stayed wrapped tightly around the handle of my whip, the familiar leather pressing into my palm as I kept my focus locked straight ahead on the man standing opposite me.

Noah looked completely relaxed as he faced me, his entire body at ease with his face calm and steady while he met my gaze without any sign of tension or hesitation in his eyes. I frowned deeply because there was something different about him now, something I couldn’t quite place right away even though I studied him carefully.

It wasn’t his posture or the way he carried himself, he had always acted this calm no matter what circumstances surrounded him, always radiating that same confidence that made him seem almost untouchable. He had always moved with that kind of power that didn’t need to be loud or aggressive, so that wasn’t the point at all.

What felt truly different was his aura, the way it pressed against me so strongly that standing in front of him felt more like facing a god than just another man, the energy around him ancient in a way that made my skin prickle with unease.

I frowned even harder as the question burned in my mind, wondering what could possibly have changed that much in just a few short hours while he had been inside the forest, but no clear answers came to me no matter how much I turned it over in my thoughts.

All I could do was keep looking at him, my eyes searching for any clue in that emotionless expression while my hand tightened even more firmly over the whip until my knuckles ached from the pressure. Noah looked at me for a long moment before he reached out toward Chloe’s sword as if he intended to unleashed it and prepare for a proper fight, but I had no intention of allowing him that chance, if this was going to be a difficult battle then I was determined to make sure he never got the opportunity to make the first real move against me.

With a sharp and decisive flick of my wrist I sent my whip cracking through the air straight toward him, the blade wrapping tightly around his wrist in an instant and curling around his hand like a living snake that seemed intent on enveloping his entire arm as it squeezed with increasing force.

The crowd gasped loudly in shock as they watched the scene unfold right in front of them, their voices rising in a wave of surprise that filled the arena.

The host spoke loud for everyone to hear, her tone filled with disbelief as she said, “Oh my Goddess, guys, what is the prince doing? Is he not giving any chance to Noah?” She said. “What is going on? This is not his usual style of fighting. He is never this fast to take down his enemies.”

People in the crowd started muttering and agreeing among themselves, their whispers spreading quickly through the stands while someone else called out clearly, “That boy is screwed. The prince is dangerous when he is serious at fighting. Even though Noah defeated the beast, can he really beat the prince? The prince has always won every warrior rite.”

I didn’t say anything in response and simply kept my eyes fixed on Noah the entire time, watching him closely as he remained completely relaxed while looking down at the whip colled around his wrist, his expression showing no concern at all even as the crowd continued to talk about him as if he were already defeated. He didn’t seem to care about their words in the slightest and just continued to study the whip for another moment before slowly lifting his gaze back to meet mine, then he moved his free hand toward it as if he wanted to touch the whip or push it away from his skin.

But something surprising and completely unexpected happened right then, something so different from anything I had seen before that it caught me entirely off guard.

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202) Eyes on me, kid

The whip immediately recoiled and jerked away from his fingers as if it were suddenly afraid of getting touched by him, unwinding from his wrist in a flash before snapping back toward me and wrapping itself securely around my waist once more as if it no longer wanted any part of the fight at all.

The entire arena fell into complete silence in that moment, even the host looked stunned as if she couldn’t believe what had just taken place right in front of everyone.

I looked down at my whip with my brows furrowed deeply in surprise, my mind racing as I tried to understand it. The only time the whip acted like this was when I wanted to test it against my uncle but it stopped before it could touch him, but after that incident it had never reacted this way toward anyone no matter how powerful that person happened to be. Yet here it was now, pulling back from Noah as if he were something far more dangerous and terrifying than any opponent I had ever faced in all my years, and the question kept echoing through my head with no explanation in sight.

How is that possible?

Just when my mind was still spinning from the strange way my whip had recoiled from his touch, a soft but firm voice cut through the silence of the arena and pulled me back to the present moment.

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