“How long does the hunt last
“Until they catch you,” Loren replied. “Last year’s hunt was long. Four days, I think?”
I rubbed my eyes and threw my body back in my bed. This was going to suck. I turned back to Loren and found she had done the same. She gave me a sad smile.
“It wouldn’t be so bad to just submit to them, would it?”
I turned away from her and stared at the ceiling. It would be when it came out that I was the Princess. Victoria would be embarrassed and I cannot imagine how humiliated Kairos and Maximus would be. The thought of their rage made me
shudder
Additionally, I couldn’t let them win. Every bone in my body was telling me that submitting would be the worst way to start the year. Maybe it was my royal blood that detested being someone’s bitch so much. Maybe it was just the thought of giving Maximus and Kairos the satisfaction of knowing they were better than me.
I looked back at bren. Her purple eyes were wide with hope. I couldn’t bring myself to let her down I looked back at the
ceiling.
“Yeah, it wouldn’t,” I mumbled.
We didn’t speak the rest of the night. Loren slowly drifted to sleep around midnight. I stayed up later, my brain running over the seven hundred different ways I could try and not be hunted. I thought of just staying in my room for the duration of my time at Alpha Academy. That kind of defeated the point of being there, however.
Then I thought of just running until I left this place. Leaving it far behind and just returning to my old life. I figured that Victoria would find me again, somehow. She managed to find my final orphanage when I’d been tossed across the country multiple times.
My only hope was to try and become stronger in the comfort of my dorm room. I would wake up the next day and start on the workouts I’d done in high school for track. Push–ups, sit ups, bicep curls with whatever of Loren’s skincare products I could borrow. That way, no one could attack me but I could still become stronger
If only I had a wolf, the voice in my head said.
If you had a wolf you wouldn’t be in this fucking mess, idiot. I threw back with an involuntary eyeroll. You’d probably have kicked Maximus’s assland never run into Kairos.
True, my inner voice mused. But this could be fun!
I ignored her. This was not fun.
Sleep finally came for me at around two in the morning. It made my alarm at eight even worse. I ripped the sheets off Loren wasn’t in her bed. I frowned. She’d been here yesterday before Basics. Had she already ditched me?
my bed
Regardless, it was the perfect time for me to start enacting my plan. I turned on my music, loud enough to get me pumped up but low enough that no one would complain. I put on an old sports bra and some spandex. They were my old high school colors, brown and blue, and looked ridiculous with my bright red hair. Luckily, I wasn’t wearing it for fashion
started with some light stretching then tore into muscle building exercises. I pushed my body hard enough that I began to feel the slick of sweat build on my skin. It dripped from my forehead onto the pink carpet Loren had set up before my arrival I hoped it was washable.
was almost done with my final exercise, squat jumps, when there was a loud banging against my door. I flinched at the noice and quickly turned off my music. I wiped the sweat from my upper lip before tentatively pulling the door open
It was none other than Maximus. Of course
