Chapter 11After securing Claire’s promise to look after Reenah, and Reenah’s promise to charm Airmed into forgiving me, I decided to join my family in the training arena. The idea of planting one on Hollis’s face was appealing, and I figured I could use the practice. Working out with Khai in Aeden had been interesting, but no one was tougher than my parents. If I wanted to be in top form, and I did, then I needed to be training with them.
It seemed like a good idea, right up until the moment I found myself flat on my back, my mother’s bare foot at my neck, my eyes staring up into the business end of a bokken. Normally, this would have been the point where I would have conceded defeat. But this wasn’t a normal day, and I wasn’t the same awkward girl who had trained with my mother four mont
