MATED TO THE STRONGEST ALPHA
Chapter Fifteen

*Selene's POV

My body was full of sweat. I was about to surrender, but when I remembered what he said to me, my heart urged me to show him that I was not weak. That I can be more than what he thought about a woman like me. "Tell me if you want to stop. Then admit that you are weak, princess.

"Shut up! You will never hear that. I will never say that until I die."

I would never let anyone tell that to me again. I was weak before, but not now. I would never be the weak, useless person before. I closed my eyes when he added more weight to my arms. "Squat, princess," he ordered me and tapped my legs.

I wanted to curse him, but my energy was not enough. I didn't want to waste it because of him.

"Tell me if you can't handle it." As he said those words, he laughed in front of me. Was this part of the training? This was not what I imagined. I hoped my parents saw this and saved me from this cruel man. For about an hour, he made me squat while he put some weights on my hands.

"Tell me now, princess. You can't handle it anymore. Tell me now. Tell me..." He triggered me. Yes, I couldn't handle the pain. My body was about to collapse and do what he wanted me to do. I wanted to stop it.

I didn't say a word. I endured everything, just to prove to him that I was not weak, but I couldn't handle it anymore. I fell at the same time he crossed his arm. I looked at him proudly because I collapsed. "I was right."

"Right about what? That I was weak?" My voice tone got higher for the last word I said.

He stretched out his hand, but I refused his help. I got up on my own.

"We would take the next step." It sounded like he didn't mind what I felt.

"Do you see that red flag out there? Run from here to there for 1,000 times. In Just..." He looked at his watch. "For 55 minutes."

"What? Are you serious? 55 minutes?" I put my hand on my waist. "1,000 times for 55 minutes? Have you forgotten what you just made me go through? My knees still have not recovered because you ordered me to squat for almost an hour." It seemed he didn't hear what I said. His eyes were focused on his watch.

"3...

"What?"

"2..."

"No way!"

"1..."

His gaze turned to me. "Your time is running."

I clenched my teeth as I looked at him. I wanted to punch him in the face, but I stopped myself from doing that.

"50 minutes left.

When he said those words, I ran as fast as I could. But I knew within myself that I couldn't do what he wanted me to do. It was impossible to run that fast. He didn't allow me to change my form; if I did that, he said that I accepted that I was a weak person who would never change..

I felt tired. My feet couldn't move anymore. He tortured me. Forced me to squat and ordered me to run. What was the purpose of this?

As I did 300 times, he tapped his watch and then ordered me to stop. I did it as fast as I could.

I gasped for air; even my lips parted just to have some air in my lungs. I couldn't feel my body anymore. This training was harder than I imagined before. I wished before to get along with this guy so my training would be easy. But he seemed to have no heart to do this.

I swept my sweat that was about to go down to my eyes away. I tried to walk closer to Axel.

"Okay, for the next part."

"What? Don't you see how tired I am? I don't want to do it. I want to take a break."

"I didn't say you needed to take a break. I am the one who would tell you if it is over or not." He was cruel.

"Do you have a heart? Are you mad at me?"

"Yes." He answered my question without hesitation.

"What?"

"You are weak." When he replied, he didn't even think.

I looked away. I wanted to cry because of what he said, but he didn't even let those emotions well up in me. He said some words that made me think about it.

"Don't be so emotional. That would make you even weaker. Let's start the next training in 10 minutes."

I didn't say a word. He said all the things he wanted me to know. That was hard to accept, but he was right. My emotions made me weaker. I needed to control it.

While I was silent, something cold landed on my forehead. Because of this, I looked at Axel, who put bottled water on my head.

The wind blew; my body felt it and made me feel better. I looked into his eyes. I didn't see any concern, but at last, I saw his intentions. I was weak; he needed to trigger me just to let my inner power come out. He was not that bad. It lasted seconds until we heard someone clear his throat. We both were shocked when we looked at that someone. We saw the Lycan King.

"Your Highness." Axel bowed.

I grab the bottled water he gave me.

"Father." I bowed in front of my father.

"How was the training? Did something that will interest me happen?"

I let Axel answer it. This was awkward; my father saw me looking into the man's eyes for about a second.

Axel told my father about the training. As I expected, he said how weak I was and told the King that he would do everything to make me strong. I hoped The Lycan King would see how his friend's son tortured his daughter. "That is good. Join us for dinner when the both of you are done." My father tapped Axel's shoulder as if he were proud of what he was doing.

"Continue your training. We are proud of you, my princess." After he said those words, he kissed me on my forehead. Even though my whole body was seated, he didn't mind about it.

"I will be back later. Just continue what you guys are doing." He was about to turn his back on us, and when he left his last words on us, that made me embarrassed. "But no kissing."

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