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Lyra's POV.
I had heard several times that rogues were the bane of werewolves existence but I didn't think that it was that correct until my training started.
I had run throughout the ends of the Earth yet Lucius still had an unimpressed look on his face like I had been wasting my time all along.
I knew that I was putting in more than enough effort and if he didn't see then there was nothing I could do to change it.
My legs were about to give away and I was still very passionate about showing that I could be better.
Sweat trickled down my skin with so much intensity that one would have thought that I was sitting in hell.
My legs gave away and I fell on the floor. "That's not how to handle things. You cannot be weak at every problem. You've got to find a solution before it's too late." His scathing remark cut through me.
I paused. "What?"
"You heard me. If you need to fight people you don't expect people to sit with their hands folded and waiting for you to catch your breath do you?"
He was acting like I didn't even want to do a thing when it wasn't my fault that all of these things were just a jumboree.
"What?"
"Have you got a hard time hearing nowadays?" He responded again with even more intensity than I imagined causing me to roll my eyes.
This man was already angry and I didn't want to be the reason why he was even more aggravated.
"You've got to pick yourself up even if you don't look like it. Nobody's going to help you when you're ready to smell that you are. Weak. Pathetic. And..." He raised his nose, "Worthless."
I felt something stir inside of me but I didn't want to push my luck.
I knew that a lot of people around here still hated me for the fact that I had a blast of power a few days ago but they just didn't understand why he was still keeping me here instead of tearing me apart.
"I don't think my services are ever going to be welcomed here. I'm always going to be put on a scale and I'm not sure that I would be able to get through it." I confessed.
Lucius did not look impressed, instead his eyes focused on mine with so much annoyance. "I didn't give you a chance for you to second guess yourself. I gave you a chance to become a better version and I'm not going to waste my energy on somebody that doesn't think that they are worth a dime. You don't need anybody to help you as long as you have...."
He stopped talking instantly and I noticed Camille striding in with so much anger on her face that I began to get scared.
Had someone stepped on her and the person was about to receive their dose of pain?
"You don't need to be afraid around here, we already have an idea of what you might be capable of."
"I know..." I tried to muster some courage but I ended up failing
"She's not yet ready for the task ahead of her and I don't think we should keep wasting our time sir." Camille shot me a wicked look.
I could have growled but I was honestly spent, so I kept staring.
She was one of the worst people that one could cross and I saw the anger in her eyes at me.
I didn't think that I had done anything to warrant such emotions but I guess sometimes around here you just had to go with the flow and stop looking for answers or else you're not going to find any.
"The people are already complaining. They think that you've been giving her so much attention that she's going to suddenly forget her place."
Camille was speaking like I wasn't even present and that irritated me to my core.
"Well you could do better than just speaking about me like I do not exist." I piped up, refusing to be silenced.
She only raised her eyebrows in the form of acknowledgment aside from that everything else paled in comparison.
"Is that so now? You of all people think that one way or the other I'm going to ever look at you as somebody that could be respected? You've been grunting and heaving since you started running. Do you think I'm going to consider you serious?"
It was a huge blow to my image and I hated it but one thing that I needed to keep in mind was the fact that I was not doing any of these things for her.
I was doing it because I needed to prove to myself that I could be better than what had attacked me in the past.
I also needed to prove to myself that I could do whatever I wanted to do without anybody's influence.
"Tell me something I don't know already. Don't think that I do not know how you've been trying to lobby for this form of attention that I've been getting." I fired at her from nowhere.
Lucius coughed slightly hiding his amusement and that further aggravated Camille who looked at me like I was a devil spawn.
She was the one who started it and I had to end it. She talked about me not having a spine and now that I finally did it was a problem for her? I guess there was nothing that I could do that would ever be pleasant in her sight.
It was always going to be me against her around her and I intended to win even if I didn't know what we were contesting for.
It took a while before she finally broke into a smile. "I guess she would." She whispered.
A look of understanding past between the both of them and I knew that I was already in for some danger. These guys were not going to let me go.
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