Three Moves

Three moves.

Three moves were all it took for Helena to take down Sara, pin her to the ground, and get her to submit.

Sara had attacked first, but the other shewolf had grossly underestimated the one she was up against. She'd come in cocky and failed.

A pregnant silence enveloped the sparring area as everyone watched in awe.

"You might be descended from Warriors, shewolf," Helena spat as she pushed down on Sara's neck. "But I come from two Alpha lines. I'm an Alpha heir, and you better remember that."

With one final shove, Helena got off Sara and stood up.

No one spoke, no one wanted to ruin whatever spell Helena had cast, and Sara didn't dare get up.

"Damn, I remember you being good but not that good," Neil whistled as Helena released Sara.

Helena offered a hand to help Sara up, but the other shewolf let her pride rule and slapped Helena's hand away.

"I don't know where that fucking hand has been," Sara snapped. "Who knows what diseases you might have."

Helena rolled her eyes and shrugged, not wanting to justify Sara's remark with a reply.

"You've gotten better, a lot better," Gamma Norris said as she approached the older man.

"I've been away a while," Helena said as she gave him a smile.

"Nine years," Gamma Norris said, shaking his head. "Your mother and stepfather have been so worried about you and yet here you are kicking ass like the Alpha Heir you are."

"I learned a lot from that boarding school Dad sent me to," Helena shrugged. She might have forgotten to mention it was a school that trained the best warriors, too. "Also, visiting all those other packs representing Blackmoon and Stonehill gave me a chance to train with the best."

"Well I'll be damned," Gamma Norris chuckled. "Come, there are some people I want you to meet."

The gamma then blew his whistle and ordered everyone to get back to finding a partner and sparring.

A smaller group of about twenty wolves moved close to join them, among them were Romeo's future Beta and Gamma.

"A few years after you left, Alpha Romeo asked me to build an elite team of warriors. This is them," the Gamma said as he smiled proudly at the team.

He looked more like a proud father than a teacher.

To Helena's surprise, there were five other women in the team, and their smiles seemed a little brighter. It was nice to see women in a rank that was normally dominated by the men.

"That was epic!" one of the girls praised. "About time someone put Sara in her place. She thinks she's such a good warrior when she keeps getting handed her ass on the mats."

The others laughed and shook their heads. It seemed that Sara had been their problem for a while now.

"You up to training with the elite team today?" Gamma Norris asked.

"Pretty sure she didn't even have time to break a sweat." Helena smiled, recognizing that voice.

"Kade!" she greeted. "What are you doing here?"

"Mum mated with a warrior in this pack, so we moved," he shrugged.

He then looked toward the rest of the elite team and pointed at Helena.

"Alpha Helena here has been training with the men since she was a kid," he explained. "She'd train both in Stonehill and here, so I'd be careful when going up against her."

"Not to mention the Alpha is probably still in love with her," Neil teased, making Helena blush.

"You gonna give me a round on the mats, Kade?" Helena teased as she changed the topic.

"Will you give me a round, Alpha?" he asked.

"Drop the Alpha. I'm not an Alpha here," she pointed out.

"Same thing. You're the Alpha Heir of Stonehill, so you're still an Alpha," Kade shrugged. "Someone has to remind you that you aren't just going to be someone's Luna."

"Hey, no shame in being a Luna," Helena pointed out.

"Didn't mean to say there is, Alpha," Kade said as he bowed his head, submitting to Helena. "Just you're too good a leader and a fighter to not, well lead."

Helena simply sighed and shook her head when she realized there was no convincing Kade to stop calling her Alpha.

"Are we gonna train or are we gonna talk politics?" Helena asked as she turned to Gamma Norris, pleading for him to save her.

"Alright, guys," the Gamma said, chuckling. "Pair up."

Everyone found a partner, and as Helena was about to walk over to Kade, Gamma Norris grabbed her arm and stopped her.

"He isn't wrong," Gamma Norris said.

"My uncle is young and mated. I'm only his heir temporarily," Helena pointed out.

"Doesn't make you any less an Alpha, Helena," Gamma Norris told her with a kind expression.

"I don't want to be Alpha," she said with a lot more conviction.

"Sometimes the best people to be in power are those that don't want to be," the Gamma sighed. "Go, I think Kade wants to spar with you."

"He's a good fighter," she said with a nod, recalling the times she'd trained in her uncle's pack.

She never told anyone, but she'd gone home there more than she did to Blackmoon.

"Ready?" Helena asked as she stood across Kade.

Neil was standing to the side, watching her. He was probably on Romeo's orders to watch her.

"Always, Alpha," Kade said with a wink.

"Do you have a death wish, Kade?" Neil called out. "Cause if Alpha Romeo caught you hitting on her, he'd beat you up."

Helena rolled her eyes at Neil's comment.

"I can defend myself," she hissed. "And Kade was just flirting."

She looked towards Kade and winked.

She didn't want to flirt with him, not really, but she really really didn't want Romeo thinking she was his, and if that meant putting on a show for his friends, then so be it.

"Ready to have you ass handed to you Kade?" Neil asked.

"By Alpha Romeo or by you?" Kade asked with a cocky smirk as his blue eyes gleamed with mischief, his blond hair falling to his face.

"No Kade, by me," Helena said as she attacked.