[Nikolai]
The training session with Kain had been going on for nearly an hour.
He sidestepped another one of my attacks with that infuriating ease he’d always had, then blocked my follow-up strike without even looking particularly strained. I wasn’t putting much effort into it, after all, what was the point? I was an alpha. My strength was inherited, not earned through endless sparring sessions. And besides, I had no particular interest in taking over the pack. Never had and probably never will.
That lack of commitment clearly pissed Kain off.
He’d been my teacher since I was a boy, back when my fists were small and clumsy, and the world seemed impossibly large. He was loyal to my father, even when they disagreed. Even when my father made decisions that Kain privately thought were reck
