Vaughan’s POV
It was already enough that Raven came to the training late and she thought it was okay because it was just three minutes. Pathetic. Just three seconds in a battle was enough to have a man killed. She doesn't even know three seconds was enough to make or mar a whole kingdom.
What was more annoying than her lateness was watching as she struggle against the training dummy, her fists repeatedly slamming against the steel-reinforced target. Her form was sloppy, her hits lacked the necessary force, and the tremor in her arms told me she was already exhausted.
She was weaker than I had anticipated. So weak. From the research I had made on her, I thought she had the Alpha blood since her late mother was once a powerful princess.
I had assumed that, despite the circumstances, she
