In Love With An Alpha

I hit the ground with a loud crash and winced at the pain that shot up my back.

"You have to focus if you actually want to win Hayley," I heard my sister Elena sneer.

Elena and I are polar opposites. She is about three years older than me and while she stops at a meager 5 foot 4 inches; I'm a whopping five foot nine. The there's also the fact that she looks exactly like my mother with her gorgeous black hair and green eyes while I look like my dad with a mess of unruly ginger hair and hazel eyes.

"Focus Hayley," she spat, "It's no use fighting someone who isn't even paying attention."

"Your sister is right," I heard my dad say, "If this was a real battle then you would have been dead a long time ago."

"If this was a real battle I would not be anywhere near the fights. I would be with the healers in the hospital and Elena would be with the watchmen." I retorted and I saw Elena's eyes narrow.

"You seem so confident that you'll never be in the middle of a battle Hayley," she said, "And sometimes you don't go to the battle; it comes to you."

"Elena is," dad began but I cut him off.

"Right, I know."

His eyes narrowed and he shot me that look that would make most people cower but as his daughter who has been on the receiving end of that look one too many times I'm pretty much immune to it.

As the alpha of the Shadow Keeper's pack, he is used to people being intimidated by him so the fact that I'm not cowering in fear seemed to set him off.

"Alright then, since you're so cocky," he spat,

"We'll train with your powers."

"But dad," Elena began and he turned to her with a soft look in his eye.

"No Elena," he said, "Since she clearly doesn't want to train then let her go."

Elena looked at me for a second before moving closer to dad to whisper In his ears but I could still hear her.

"I don't need to train my powers; I don't know how to do that anyways," she said softly,

"She's just trying to embarrass me."

"There is nothing to be embarrassed about." He said firmly, "You are the better fighter and that is why she's choosing to run away."

I rolled my eyes at their conversation; I'm literally sitting in front of them and they're talking like I'm not even here and dad is just lying through his teeth. I'm the better fighter and we all know that; the only reason Elena got the upper hand on me is because she threw dirt in my eyes.

Elena turned to me briefly then back to dad and he gave her an encouraging nod to which she turned to me.

"Alright then Hayley; you can go train your powers while I stay and work on my fighting." She said, "The goddess knows that someone actually needs to be able to defend herself around here."

"You could actually try working on your powers," I said with a shrug and she scowled, "They may just improve."

"Oh go fuck yourself," she spat with narrowed eyes.

"What are you talking about; I'm just trying to help."