My Secret, My Bully, My Mates.

“She’s not wrong.” He confirms walking over to us. This girl puts me to shame as far as her training time each day goes and she does it all while maintaining her extremely high grades and helping me train our pups.

“Really?” Prince Alexander asks.

“I just like to train, that’s all. I shrug my shoulders. “It’s really not that big a deal. I don’t like a lot of down time.”

Saved by LunaAva calling us to the formal dining room, we all head that way. The long rectangular table is set beautifully with a white linen table clott

and a gold runner down the middle. Low candle and flower arrangements are dispersed along the runner , low enough that conversation can be had across the table.

The food smells delicious as always set in silver warmers on a buffet along a back wall with omegas waiting to serve us. I have never seen anything so fancy in my whole life.

I grab Sierra’s hand silently pleading for her to stay close to me. She gives my hand a little squeeze and then smiles at me. As we make our way around the table a soft hand touches the small of my back.

“Would you mind sitting next to me? I would love to hear more about what you and your pack does with training your young pups.” Alexander is really close to my ear.

I hear a huff, but when I look around Pm not sure who it came from. I nod my head. “Sure, I would love to hear more about the Elite Warrior training and some of the battle strategies you use.” He does not remove his hand from my back, instead guiding me to the end of the table where the Alpha King and Luna Queen are standing.

“Does everyone have a seat? Perfect! Let’s eat.” Luna Ava moves around her chair as Alpha Lucas holds it for her. The Alpha King does the same of his queen. Alexander holds my chair for me and Sam has Sierra’s next to me. The rest of the guys wait until all the ladies are seated before they take

their own. It’s so strange to watch them in such a formal setting and to know the protocols like it’s second nature.

Our first course is soup and I am so hungry I don’t really pay attention to anything around me, catching bits of different conversations here and there,

but my focus is on slowly eating, so I don’t look like a barbarian, until I have finished my whole bowl.

When 1 100k up, I notice the rest Of my friends have finished theirs as well. We are all famished after the extra training I made them do. I kind of feel bad now.

“So how do you get your pups to train? Nicholas says you start with them at five years old. Alexander looks at me from my right.

I can see Nickolas and Thomas across from me waiting for my answer too. “We turn everything into games mostly. They love the idea of challenges

so we time everything or give them a number to hit and they have goals each week. We have also adapted a lot of normal games to fit with what we

want for training like Tag, Capture the Flag, Hide and Seek, things like that. It seems to work for us.” I shrug again like, it ‘s nothing.

“Let’s be clear, she adapts the games to fit what I want them to learn each week. They also seem to like that she is closer to them in age. She’s only

ten years older than our youngest pup. They respond better to her than adult trainers most of the time.” Delta Kyle adds to the conversation from nex

to Warrior Thomas. “We all have our strengths and weaknesses as trainers, hers is keeping the young ones engaged and wanting to return.

would love to see that sometime. Alexander smiles at me.

“Sure, the training is open for anyone to come watch. I smile back and I swear I hear a low rumble. Alexander’s eyes lift from mine to look over my

shoulder at someone, but when I follow his line of sight no one is looking our way.

Dinner continues with a salad course, then the main course with steak, asparagus, mashed potatoes and the most melt-in-your-mouth dinner rolls I

have ever had. The conversation flows easily and I really like the Alpha King and Luna Queen, they seem so much more down to earth than I thought

they would be. I hear a little more about Elite Warrior training and about the ranked training the boys go through. It was fun to hear stories from the

Alpha King about all my guys and Prince Alexander from their time together. It was strange when I noticed how far away all my guys were though. It

didn’t hit me right away since I was so interested in hearing from the prince and Warrior Nickolas and Warrior Thomas about training.