Soraya’s POV
Stacy, Sasha and I sat by the gazebo while they filled me in on the next social event on the calendar. The kids were running around by the grass with kites that John had helped them build, their giggles could be heard from where we sat. Sasha was warming up to Stacy and I and was more engaging than she had been proving that her silence and shyness were because of Sofija.
I had been training with Dorian and Xander for the past three weeks. The combat training was brutal and Dorian did not spare me any pain at all just because I was a woman or Xander’s wife. In fact it was for that exact reason that he came hard on me, I was grateful for it because I didn’t want to be babied. He kept saying though that I learned quite fast as I found ways to bend his rules and pin him to the
