The Transfer novel Chapter 6

The rest of the week I trained hard. I ran every day, either with Ezra, Alfie or Lila and Brayleigh. Each day, they pushed me harder and harder. I remember the morning after my run with Ezra that I collapsed to the ground. I had run with Alfie that morning. It was just him and I.

Alfie was ruthless. He made us take a new track, one that extended all the way around Takiani. He told me it was the trail that the tracker wolves run, as it went along the borders of the pack. It was a long run, the longest one I'd ever been on.

But I loved it.

Alfie pushed me and pushed me. He wouldn't let me slow down and only let me get faster and faster. He raced me, purposely getting me angry to try and bring out my beast's fire. He said it worked, but he said it didn't work enough.

After the run, I had to sit down. I was panting hard, my heart was beating so fast that I felt it in my throat. My arms and legs were tingling with energy.

I felt different. I felt great. Something I hadn't felt in a while.

But it wasn't enough. So straight after my run, Alfie had me spar with Kade yet again. It was a good one, apparently. Alfie said that he saw a real change in the way I fought, and Kade even told me afterwards that I had improved since the first time we'd sparred.

Although, Kade did beat me. It felt good to have him compliment me, coming from a wolf who could have just been cocky and rubbed it in my face that he won.

It was a new morning, and I ran with Kade. He came to my door and made a joke about getting my 'lazy ass out into the wild'. Which made my beast twitch. She didn't like being called lazy, but she knew it was Kade trying to get us angry. He was challenging us to make our blood hum that same way other Alphas did.

"You're pretty fast... you should focus on channeling that in the rings. You could zip around your opponents pretty easy," Kade told me as we walked towards the sparring rings together.

My beast swirled with pride. She was proud of me. She was proud of us. We liked getting good feedback from others, because it proved that we were doing at least one thing right.

"My mother was fast. She was like a blur," I said to Kade. He started to speak to me, but my ears picked up on another conversation and I stopped listening to Kade to listen to this new one.

"That's her... the transfer. She's an Alpha, but I think I could kick her ass. She looks weak," a girl voice said. I furrowed my eyebrows at the statement.

They were talking about me. There weren't any other Alphas that transferred from Terialta to Takiani.

"By the looks of it, she's sucking up to Kade so that Alfie will go easy on her," another girl scoffed. I heard my beast rumble angrily at their comments.

Who the hell did they think they were? Talking about me like that? Did they know I could hear them?

"Morning Kade, Alison. I hope you both had a good run this morning, but it's time to start training," Alfie greeted us as we approached him. Kade and I both nodded at him and I crossed my arms bitterly.

I was still angry about what those girls were saying. Did they know who I was? What I was capable of doing?

I had never lost my shit before, but I was sure that if they kept talking smack, they would see me lose it.

Alfie trained me hard that morning. He helped me work on my punches and my defence. He taught me about looking for weaknesses in my opponents and he told me all about using their strength against them if I wasn't strong enough to hold my ground.

He explained to me that wolves would pick on me once they knew that there was something that pissed me off. He said that some wolves were cocky and liked to push buttons. He said that I would face that exact problem.

"In a fight, your opponent is going to want to rowdy you up. They're going to get under your skin to make you angry. Once they find something that they know is weakness, whether it's an injury or something to do with your hair. They'll use it against you," Alfie explained to me. His examples made my blood boil. I didn't like that other wolves would try to get me angry like that.

I didn't like how people would try and challenge me like that.

"It's going to happen, and the only thing you can do is channel your anger into your strength so you can beat their ass. It takes a lot of strength, but practise makes perfect," Alfie told me. I nodded and tied my hair up into a ponytail, keeping it out my face.

"I'm going to get you to spar with me today. I think I'll enjoy putting your ass in the dirt," Alfie laughed at me. I rolled my eyes at him playfully but felt my beast rumble. She didn't like that he was already thinking that he could beat us.

"I won't be leaving this ring without seeing you bleed, even if it's just a little," I said quickly. Alfie laughed at this and we stepped into a ring. Alfie put down his clipboard outside the ring and then cracked his knuckles and stretched his arm.

"No shifting until say... oh wow, that feels good to say," Kade chuckled from the sidelines. Alfie rolled his eyes at his son and then looked to me.

We began to to circle each other, stalking around in the circle. My beast snapped at Alfie in our mind. She wanted a piece of his hide to show him that we were stronger than we looked. We could put up a challenge for him.

We wanted to be hard to beat.

I lunged at Alfie first. He blocked my punch and then hit me hard in the stomach, sending me toppling to the dirt. I grunted but pushed myself back up.

Alfie came at me this time. He threw his fist at my nose, but I jumped out the way and then nailed him hard in the collar bone. Alfie didn't look fazed, and that bothered me.

I swung at him again and realised I was too slow. Alfie grabbed my wrist and he flipped me onto my back. I thudded in the dirt and groaned as I got up and growled at him.

My beast was snapping and howling. She wanted to be let out. She wanted a bite of his ass.

Alfie tried to punch me, and he missed as I ducked out the way. I hit him in the kidney with my elbow, and he took a step back. I nailed him hard in the ribs and then tried to punch him.

When my fist made contact with Alfie's jaw, he looked stunned. He wasn't hurt, clearly, but he looked surprised. I took that to my advantage.

I punched Alfie in the humerus, hard. I heard a crack, and Alfie winced. I frowned, but I kept going. But my moment of shock lasted too long.

Alfie punched me in the mouth. I tasted blood immediately and my beast growled loudly. She was getting angry now.

"Shift," Kade said from outside the ring. I didn't hesitate. I lurched forwards, swiping at Alfie with my paw. He ducked out the way and shifted.

Alfie slammed into me, hard. He knocked me to the dirt and clawed at my back. I bit back a yelp and growled instead. I rolled, Alfie's wolf toppling over me.

I got up to my feet quickly and shook out my fur. It felt good.

I ran at Alfie. But he dodged out the way and pushed me into the dirt. I growled, getting an awful mouthful of dirt. But I got up anyway and turned around again.