My Secret, My Bully, My Mates. novel Chapter 281

“Back to Audrina though. She’s jealous that you came in and took her place as the favorite. Although, I think being the favorite was all in her head. From what I hear, most people didn’t like to work with her because of her superiority complex. She tears people down and makes them, instead of giving constructive criticism to work on and get better like you do.”

“I still think you’re crazy. There’s nothing to be jealous of. I’m just me, I just want to fight, nothing spectacular.”

“We’ll agree to disagree, I’m not arguing with you about this. It’s almost time, do you think we should grab anything? We’re going overnight, but didn’t get a whole lot of information.”

“I guess I might bring a sweatshirt to have a layer if they make us shift on the fly. I wish someone would teach me the whole ‘shift and keep your clothes’ thing.” I say as we take our things back to the kitchen.

We both run upstairs to grab an extra layer and then sit and wait in the foyer. Neither of us talk or discuss anything. I know we are both nervous and excited all at the same time, but once of the best things about Mina is she doesn’t need to fill the silence with noise or talking, we are both just here, together, and that’s all that is needed for comfort at this point.

I sink back into the seat and just watch the forest fly by in blurred shadows and silhouettes thinking about all the training I have ever gone through, all the skill building games I did with the kids to hone isolated senses.

One game I miss is hide and seek. My wolf and I loved that game so we could refine our sense of smell. The kids would mill about in a section of forest near the training grounds, leaving their scents behind and one would hide when the rest came back to me and I had to figure out who was missing and then find them. We always had a great time. It taught them to start to use the forest around them to mask their scent and as they got better I had to improve my tracking skills to find them.