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When he opened hisI raised rievances, Mr Collins I have a squad to train"

"Yes, well, a particular htily pissed off when you approached hi his own time," I finished "If you had expected him to react any differently, you only have yourself to bla that they do not want your co hours, I would have reprimanded him But he didn’t It’s not his fault that you can’t take a hint now, is it?" Collins said nothing What could he say? I was right, and he was veryelse?"

His usual snooty look reappeared and he straightened to his full height "Yes, as it happens," he snapped "I wish to know if there is a particular reason why you have not yet made use of the tactical field since Eloise and I came here"

The tactical field was located within the rainforest and was s were made of plywood and obviously it wasn’t nor around We usually trained there once or twice a week, and we so present from Evan, and I bloody loved it That was the reason why I hadn’t used it since Collins and Eloise had arrived It was a special place towith theue answer clearly irritated hi methods, Commander Parker I noticed that the squad have not ceased calling you ‘Coach’, despite that I have repeatedly suggested that you should order the theive you a ‘pet’ name undermines your level of authority"

Pet naree with you Now if you don’tthe session"

"I would appreciate it if you would move the session to the tactical field"

And I would have appreciated it if he’d sod off hoet anted "Sorry to disappoint you, but that will not be happening"

He lifted his chin "Then I will be forced to note your failure to cooperate withvests, revealing more skin than necessary"

"Yes, I’ht of my arms and shoulders Maybe you should be a little , Mr Collins"

Turning away fron of dismissal, I switched iddy, clearly havingbeen fully debriefed on our ‘plan’, Max and Stuart were sure to fake weaknesses that they didn’t have during the session, and they didn’t question the longer breaks that they were now getting They also took advantage of their recent encounter with death by faking tiredness and claih I kneas for the best, it was still pissing , but it meant that I couldn’t push thee’s presence could cause a battle of some kind, and I needed the squad fully prepared Of course they werethe battle without additional training, but I wanted to be sure that they were at their best

Expectedly, Collins spent the entire tiIn addition, he complained for the millionth time that I swore too much (so?) and made a sound of disapproval each ti Dexter fro the squad – that was the whole point: to teach them to perform while distracted, because that hat they would need to do in a battle Further, I pitted theift-wise – well, duh, how else were they going to learn to rely on ifts to survive in a battle? The bloke was utterly clueless

Eloise also gave her penny’s worth: I was condescending, I was too impatient, and I lacked room for error – all of which was simply to piss reatly annoyed her Maybe that hy at the end of the session, when the squad had left and I’d just returned Dexter to his tattoo for or other, she reached out to touch Jared In a split second, a dark coe, jealousy, possessiveness, and a need to hurt whipped throughrab the bitch and throw her across the arena But I didn’t

However, soers went to touch Jared, a cold draft sliced through the air, raising the hairs on my arms We all stiffened as the icy breeze built and built until, suddenly, a silvery-blue wind of pure energy for Like it was a vacuum, the ind literally spat her across the wide space, causing her to collide into the far wall What the fk? The silvery-blue energy wind then instantly disintegrated like mist

Jared’s head whipped around to face me How did you do that?

I blinked I didn’t Or, at least, I hadn’t ht? I keptCollins or Eloise seeherself off, Eloise rose to her feet "You bitch!" She y to appear again It didn’t Not even as she closed in onRather than attack her, and thus give her what she wanted, I called, "Novo" Like that, a jet black Dexter was draped overred, and she stopped dead in her tracks She was perfectly aware that he would attack her without hesitation if she attempted to har "You just"

"What had you expected would happen?" Jared’s voice was calm, bored even "Sam and I are Bound You tried to touch me – and we all know that it was a flirtatious one to war over each other You’re lucky that all Sam did was send you on a little trip across the arena"