Falling For My Cruel Mate
Chapter 13

"Does that happen often?" I ask curiously as I look around at all of the people sparring around me.

"It has happened a few times, but not recently."

I nods my head at her words, "So, who am I sparring up against?"

"Me." She smirks before attempting to throw a punch at me.

I duck quickly and take a fighting stance, with my legs spread and my fist up. "Thanks for the warning girlie." I say sarcastically.

"The are no warnings during pack wars." She points out before taking another swing at me. I duck once again but this time when I come up I jab her in the stomach and kick her in the side.

She lands a punch in my chin but I quickly deflect the rest of them and bring my knee into her gut. She doubles over for a second and I take it as an opportunity to knee her in the chin. She recovers quickly and lands a high kick on my shoulder and a punch to the cheek. I shake it off and raise my fist up once more and just as we're ready to go at it again Ajax steps into the middle.

"This hardly seems like a fair fight to me." He states looking down upon me. I raise my eyebrow in confusion.

"Why?" Cipher and I ask in unison.

"Well, Cipher is your friend. She would never really do anything to harm you." He had almost an evil glint in his eye. Where did he even come from? It's like he evaporated out of thin air into the middle of us sparring.

"I don't know, that punch was pretty narly." I say jokingly as I run my hand across my cheek. It really didn't hurt all that much, but I wanted to tease him a bit.

"What's your point Ajax?" Cipher growled out.

"My point is, she needs to go up against someone who doesn't know her. Someone who'll actually challenge her." He gives us a hard look as he crosses his arms over his chest. I roll my eyes. Must he be so annoying? He probably just wants to see me get hurt. Asshole.

"Fine," I spit out harshly. "Whom do you suggest I spar with?"

He smirks and calls out, "Diana!" In his big Alpha tone. I look around and spot an auburn haired girl perk up at the sound of her name. She had on small tight spandex shorts and a sports bra. Her build was very similar to Ciphers only she was a bit shorter. The girls eyes lit up like a Christmas tree at the sight of Ajax, making my wolf a bit uneasy due to the mate bond. She trotted over here like a winning pony at a show.

Cipher let out a grunt and rolled her eyes. I shifted on my feet suddenly very annoyed.

"Hi dad-I mean Alpha." She said in a soft high pitched voice. My jaw almost dropped but I contained the annoyance and shock that was bubbling inside of me like hot lava.

"Hi Cipher." She gave her a wink and Cipher simply scoffed.

"You think Diana could go up against an Alpha?" Cipher asked a hint of amusement in her voice. Her confidence in me made me feel much better. I kept my chin up and stood up straight, my arms crossed.

"This little girl is an Alpha?" Diana giggled and wrapped her hand around Ajax's bicep. I rolled my eyes and did my best to push back my wolf.

"She is pretty small huh?" Ajax chuckled deeply. I'll admit I was bit hurt but I ignored it. I don't appreciate it when anyone picks on my height.

"Are we going to spar or what?" I snapped, practically baring my teeth.

"You ready to get beat tiny girl?" She let go of Ajax's arm and approached me with

so much confidence. Did she really think she was going to win? How foolish of her.

I wasted no time, as soon as she was close enough I swung with my right hand and punched her right in the nose, causing her to stumble back.

"You bitch!" She gasped.

"There are no warnings in war." I stated and brought my knee to her gut twice before she escaped my hold. I could hear Cipher chuckle behind me only boosting my confidence.

I watched as Diana stood up and took a fighting stance. I matched her movements and raise my fist. I deflected her first few punches, but she got few in along with a kick. She tried to tackle me but I quickly moved out of the way. She turned around a little surprised and began charging at me again. I kicked her in the side and gave her a quick punch to the cheek. She seemed furious and began swinging at me once more.

She landed a hard one on my cheek causing me to stumble back. I watched as she looked over at Ajax for approval. I could taste the blood in my mouth and spit it out. Ajax just gave her blank stare before she returned her attention to me. We took our fighting stances once more, this would be the last time. I'm done playing games. She came at me first, I dodge all of them and got a few jabs in causing her to fall back.

I punched her straight in the nose once more, before landing a high kick right to her chin cause her to fall back and land on the ground. I spit on the ground next to her, blood lacing my saliva. "Looks like I won, bitch."

She let out a frustrated shriek and gathered herself up from the floor holding her nose. "Who the hell do you think you are?!"

"I am Octavia, eldest daughter to Octavius the Alpha of the SnowMoon Pack and you will show some respect." I spat out angrily. I look over to Ajax who simply had an evil smirk on his face. It's like this is exactly what he wanted.

"Next time you bring one of your trashy sluts to me, she will not make it out alive." I threatened, only making his smirk grow. I so badly wanted to just throw something at his sly little face. I hate him.

I turn around and storm away, Cipher hot on my heels. I didn't know exactly where

I was going but I knew that I wanted to be far away from there as possible.