Sleeping With The Moon Goddess

New Training Routines

Aiden

I woke up the next morning, feeling more than refreshed. That was probably the best night's sleep I had had in a while. I looked over when I heard a noise coming from the closet, seeing Damien still sound asleep and realizing Camille wasn’t in bed. I stretched as I sat up and looked at the clock, just after 6 am. I climbed out of bed and made my way into the closet. I was surprised to find Camille already dressed in leggings and a sports bra. I just stood in the doorway for a moment admiring the view.

“Good morning,” she said before pulling on a tank top and walking over to give me a kiss. I pulled her back into my arms when she tried to walk past me, kissing her again, deeper this time. I lifted her up against my chest and nuzzled my face down into her neck, inhaling her scent.

She reminded me of early mornings when the sun was just starting to warm the dew on the flowers left by the crisp night air and everything was so calm and peaceful. “Good morning princess”, I finally replied as I continued to nuzzle into her neck above my fresh mark.

She made her way into the bathroom to brush her teeth and pull her hair up into a ponytail. I couldn’t help but to come up behind her and hug her again from behind, wrapping my arms around her waist. I constantly have the need to be touching her.

“Are you hungry?”

“A little, I was hoping to get some training in this morning as well.”

“Princess, you sure? You’ve been through a lot recently and we were quite demanding of your body last night.”

She turned around in my arms and wrapped her arms up around my neck, looking up into my eyes. I lifted her up and sat her down on top of the counter, her legs wrapping around my hips.

“I actually feel pretty great. Better than I ever have before.”

“Alright then, let me go get changed. Wake Damien up and I’ll meet you back here shortly and take you down for breakfast.”

Camille

I crawled to Damien on the bed. His hair had started to come out of the bun he pulled it up into last night and it was leaving curly strands tousled around his face. Studying him for a moment, I could easily picture him as a young boy, he looked carefree; before all of the stress that comes with being an alpha was weighed on his shoulders.

I reached out to stroke his cheek, but before I could, his two large arms wrapped around me, pulling me down onto his chest and rolling us to the side. “Let’s just sleep in” he mumbled sleepily.

My attempts to lift his heavy arms were futile. “Breakfast will be ready soon and then Aiden said you and him would help me train.”

That got his eyes to finally open and look at me. “Baby girl are you . . . “

I immediately silenced him with a kiss; “Yes”, I said as I continued to smother his face with kisses “It’s time to get up”.

. . . . . . .

I followed Aiden down onto the first floor and towards the kitchen. I could already smell pancakes.

“Would you like some coffee?”

“Yes please, with just a little cream and sugar.” Aiden brought me over a coffee and I walked over to the large bay window that overlooked the forest in the back of the house. I loved that there were so many windows; it made the house feel so open and bright.

A still sleepy Damien finally made his way down the stairs wearing grey sweatpants and a white tank top. He gave me a smirk as he caught me staring; coming over to give me a kiss before pouring himself a cup of coffee.

“Damien isn’t much of a morning person,” Aiden said with a smile.

“I can see that” matching Aiden’s light-hearted tone, causing Damien to snort at us in response.

A small knock on the door caused me to turn abruptly.

“Come in,” Aiden said.

A young girl came through the door pushing a cart piled high with all sorts of food.

“Alpha Aiden, Alpha Damien,” she said, bowing to each as she addressed them.

“Good morning Julianna” they both replied. Her eyes shot over to me and they widened, lighting up with glee. She couldn’t contain her excitement as she ran over to me, causing both of my mates to laugh at her energy.

“You must be our new Luna!” she said excitedly. “I’m Julianna!”

She was bouncing up and down in front of me so fast that I couldn’t help but smile and laugh a little. I raised my arms out and she flew in to give me the biggest hug. It reminded me of the way I used to run at Emberly when she would return from patrol as a young girl.

“It’s so nice to meet you!” She said into my shirt, still bouncing up and down.

I felt an instant connection to this Julianna. I happily returned her hug, “It’s very nice to meet you too Julianna, I’m Camille!”

Breaking away from the hug, she returned her attention to her cart full of food, “I was just so excited this morning that I may have gone a little overboard.”

She began to set down a stack of fresh pancakes and waffles with maple syrup; a plate full of bacon, fresh fruit, toast, biscuits with gravy, eggs, and a big pitcher of orange juice.

My eyes bugged out of my head staring at all of this food, “Everything looks incredible Julianna, thank you!”

“You are most welcome, Luna,” she said with a bow, “please enjoy!” and with that, she turned around and left the room, shutting the door behind her.

“I like her!” I said to my mates before we all grabbed a plate and dug into the most mouth-water breakfast.

Once we were all finished, I followed my mates out into the back of the house.

“How about a quick jog to get warmed up?” I suggested.

“Sounds good baby girl.”

“You set the pace, princess.”

My eyes scanned the forest in front of me before finding an opening I liked and with that, I took off. I could hear Damien and Aiden fall in step closely behind me. I liked running through the forest and around the trees, it was more beautiful than just the flat I was used to.

I could feel my muscles warming up, my legs felt stronger than I remembered, I pushed myself faster. I wasn’t at my full speed yet, not even close. I continued to push myself faster and faster, my legs not even feeling like I was close to reaching my limit. I felt incredible.

I circled back towards the house to where we started, Aiden and Damien now closing in around me, they were full-on running now too. I pushed myself faster, pulling further ahead of them. I continued to push myself until I could see the back of the house coming into view and slowed myself back down to a light jog, slowing down my breathing, but truth is, I really didn’t feel that winded.

“Damn! Where in the hell did you learn to run like that?” Aiden said, coming up behind me.

“Seriously, she could probably outrun some of our top elites.” Damien chimed in, flashing me a devilish smile.

“I don’t know” I answered honestly, “but it felt good. Do you guys have a mat?”

I followed my mates down the stairs and gawked at the home gym that they had put together. There was probably every kind of workout equipment you could ever want down here. I made my way over to one of the training mats in the center and turned to look at both of them who were casually leaning up against the wall. I flashed them a sinister smile.

“Who’s up first?”

They both chuckled and it was Damien who was first up off the wall. He circled me around the mat a few times, testing me to see how I would respond. Realizing I wasn’t going to fall for that old tactic, he took his stance.

“Alright, let’s just start with some easy throws. Let’s see what you got.”

I got into my stance and circled around him slightly, choosing my timing carefully, I quickly thrust forward with a fake right hook, switching it up at the last second and making contact with a left jab into his rib cage, immediately following it up with a right elbow to his jaw and pushing back, resetting into my stance.

Damien reached up and grabbed his jaw; I could tell he was a little shocked. First looking at me and then over at a wide-eyed Aiden who was clearly amused that I was able to land not just one, but two shots.

As soon as I saw him turn his attention to Aiden, I took my opportunity to drop and sweep his legs out from under him, knocking him down to the ground and flat on his back, causing Aiden to howl out in laughter.

“Damn, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen anyone put Damien on his back that quick!” He says through roaring laughter.

I couldn’t help but smile and join Aiden in laughing, feeling pleased that I surprised my mates, while also surprising myself, but I knew that Damien had no real intention of trying to fight me just yet.

Damien was quick to get back to his feet. “Damn baby girl! I guess I don’t need to take things as slow with you as I thought, huh?”

“It’s ok,” I said, smiling up at him as I put my hand on his chest, running it down his abs, enjoying the feeling of him trembling slightly under my touch as I heard him take in a sharp breath. “You’ll learn” and with that, I immediately went back into my stance. Intentionally leaving him with the growing bulge under his sweatpants, I took my tank top off and tossed it off the mat, leaving me in just my sports bra, “again?”

“No fair,” he called out in a husky voice before getting back into his stance.

Damien and I sparred for the next 40 minutes. I could tell he was holding back, not striking as fast or as hard as what I’m sure he could but he definitely put some force into his hits; knocking me back quite a few times to Aiden’s disapproval. As we sparred, he would pause periodically to help give me some advice or to have me adjust my body a certain way to help bring more power into my jabs.

They then switched and it was Aiden’s turn to spar with me. Damien took Aiden’s previous spot on the floor in front of the mat offering him some advice before we started. “Don’t hold back as much as you are planning to, you’ll just piss her off,” Damien told him, giving me a wink.

He was right though. I didn’t like the idea of them holding back on me. I mean, I also didn’t want any broken bones, but I wanted to see how they truly could fight.

Aiden made the same mistake Damien first did, letting me land a hard blow to his chest that knocked him back several steps. “Holy s**t!” he sputtered out.

“Told ya” Damien was quick to shoot back. Now it was his turn to laugh at Aiden.

Aiden readjusted himself and, following my previous movements, threw a fake jab, before catching me in the side of the ribs. He was hella quick. I’ll give him that. My ribs hurt but I was glad to see that he wasn’t being overly delicate with me.

He came at me again and I was quick to block his hook and spin out of the way of his jab, landing a quick elbow to his back ribs. Before I could fully face him again, he had grabbed me and took me to the ground, one hand around my neck in a chokehold and the other holding my hips against him. He locked his legs over mine, rendering them useless. Realizing I didn’t know how to get out of this, I started to panic slightly.