Rowan's POV
"Absolutely not."
Mira said it before I'd even finished explaining what I intended to teach her, which told me she'd already decided to argue regardless of what the actual lesson turned out to be.
"You haven't heard the rest."
"I don't need to hear the rest. Whatever it is, the answer is no."
We stood in the training courtyard behind the pack house, early morning light slanting low across the stone, the kind of hour most of the pack still spent asleep. I'd chosen it deliberately. Fewer witnesses meant fewer opportunities for Elias to make this more complicated than it needed to be.
"You assumed this was combat training."
"Wasn't it?"
"No."
She crossed her arms, visibly suspicious. "Then what exactly did you drag me out here for at this ungodly hour?"
"Awareness."
"Th
