Running head first down a corridor wouldn't have been in my plan for today had you asked me this morning. I could hear the Alpha running behind me but I was too fast, even faster in my panic and fury. I had thought it was my choice, that I had finally found a family, people who wouldn't lie to me. Well: f**k them.
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[2 hours earlier]
"No James, kick higher and faster." I snapped as I caught his foot before it smashed into my head for the fifth time. "The fae are faster than you and the only way you will defeat one is if you are fast in foot and mind. Become slow and predictable: you're dead." He nodded at me, panting and wiping the sweat from his brow. "Again."
I bent my knees as he launched himself at me again, allowing my fae to flick to the surface. I could anticipate his every
