-Lara-
“Ouch… Ouch… Ouch…” I muttered the words with every step. My legs were killing me! My body was killing me! The queen was killing me! And tomorrow, I knew another painful training session awaited. No breaks… Sh*t, I was exhausted. I just wanted to…
“Hey. I had just reached the top of the stairs and was making my way down the hallway when James appeared. He was coming down from the stairs, looking a bit… lost. It seemed to take him a moment to process what he was seeing.
“Where have you been?” he asked.
I was a bit confused as to why he was asking. I was still in my training shorts and t-shirt, and he knew I was training with the queen.
“Training,” I replied.
“Walk over here,” he said, waving me closer.
My body felt so heavy and sore that taking a single step was a struggle. I
