The Lycan King’s Second Chance Mate (Ashanti) novel Chapter 123

Chapter 0123
CHAPTER NINETY-ONE.
ASHANTI’S POV.
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Every time I’m about to walk into the training arena, I have one prayer in mind. Alina shouldn’t be in there or show up later for training. Lately, that prayer of mine has been greatly snubbed by the Moon goddess because every time I walk in, I see Alina and when our gazes meet, her eyes promise me death. Today, the same thing happens and I try my best to ignore her. My eyes light up when I spot Nelly seated on one of the tiered seats at the other end of the room, lacing up her shoes. I’m smiling as I walk over to her.
“Nelly.” I call when I’m close. Her gaze flicks from the shoe in her hand to my face and I expect her to flash me an enthusiastic smile like always or even fly into my arms, but she does none of that. Instead, she gives me a lopsided smile and mutters a very grumpy;
“Hi.” And concentrates on lacing up the shoe in her hand.
My brows crease. I tilt my head to the side, giving her a playful look. She doesn’t look or sound okay.
“Are you okay?”
“Do I look like I’m not?” She snaps. She doesn’t spare me a glance. Her tone is ice cold and I can’t decide if she’s mad at me or just having a bad morning.
“You…. you have this very grim look on.”
“Well, it’s not everyday I’ll have to keep a smiling face now, is it?” She asks -rudely- raising her brows at me. I’m so shocked by her sudden outburst that I have to look around to make sure I’m not speaking with the wrong person.
Nelly has never used that tone on me. Not that she can’t, but I don’t understand why she’s being cold to me out of the blue.
“It’s not.” I calmly reply to her. “I’ll take it that you’re having a bad morning.”
“My morni
perfectly fine!” She contradicts.
“Right.” I purse my lips and walk a few seats away from her before setting my backpack down. My head is swirling as I take my shoes out of my bag. I can’t help but throw glances at her from time to time. She still looks very grumpy. It makes me sad because I’m not versed with this version of her. I hope she comes around soon.
“Alright everyone, gather around for warm up.” Alpha Kyle’s instructions make me speed up with lacing up my shoes and putting them on. I’m the last person to join the line and he’s he’s giving me a look of dissaproval. I sigh.
Today really has it coming for me.
“Have any of you ever tried ranking these three girls in terms of fighting skills?” One guys asks out of nowhere. My heart drops into my stomach as I look at the person who just spoke, The men’s gazes ping-pong from me to Nelly and then to Alina. I don’t like what they are about to do. Things are already very rough between Alina and I right now, comparing me to
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her in any way will make things worse.
I throw Delta Kyle a worried look. Begging him with my eyes to tell the men to stop, but he smiles and looks away from me.
He’s invested.
He wants the conversation to go on.
F**k.
“Alina is the most powerful of the three…” One of the guys deciphers as he looks at us, with his fingers stroking his chin beards. “For second place… I don’t really know who between Ashanti and Nelly takes that spot.”
“Ashanti, of course! She has emerged winner in all duels. She was able to go through all ten rounds with the Lycan King. That’s something even some of you here have not ben able to achieve. She’s a great fighter. She takes second spot for me.” Almost everyone is nodding their heads by the time Landon is done talking. I’m supposed to smile and thank him for the accolade, but I’m too terrified to do so. I can see from my peripheral vision, the scowl Alina’s face. She will kill me for real today if we’re paired for a duel.
“I object.” A voice calls out. “Landon, you seem to be forgetting something.” I flick my gaze to the person who just spoke. He’s one of the guys I’ve never really had a conversation with since I started training here. He looks very scary.
“And what could that be, Rex?”
“It’s not all about skills and who’s winning duels or who’s resisting rounds with the Alpha. It’s about origin. Roots. Ashanti is an ordinary werewolf and by default, she’s weaker that Nelly who is a true born Lycan. Also, Nelly has been training for a very long time compared to Ashanti who just started a few weeks ago. Saying Ashanti is a more skilled fighter than Nelly is an insult to everyone of us Lycans standing here!” My pride has been crushed. The frown Nelly had on a while ago has been replaced with a very bright smile. Same with Alina.