Chapter 101

Valen POV

This was not what I expected. Everly was on attack the entire time, yet the longer I watched, I realized John wasn’t even fighting. He could have landed multiple blows on her and she even left herself open a couple times where he could have taken her out but he didn’t. Ava stood beside me chewing her nails nervously, her eyes glued to the match and Macey and Zoe beside her with the same frightened expressions on their faces.

Something was going on. It was almost like John was deliberately throwing the challenge. “Why isn’t he fighting back?” Marcus whispered and I shrug, but Everly was becoming tired and she only had two minutes left before they had to shift. Nixon was screaming at John to take her out, screaming like a damn banshee and distracting both of them. I have put up more of a fight with her when training with her, yet John almost seemed scared of hurting her and Everly was also holding back. He had hit her once and it was only in the th*gh, he had ample opportunity at body and head shots but never took one of them.

The siren blared signaling it was time to shift. And I noticed Everly glance at Ava nervously. I could see John talking to her while they fought, but once that signal went off he had no choice but to shift. However, Everly didn’t.

“What are you doing? Shift!” I scream at her and I see Ava take a step forward to the pit and Macey grips her arm and shakes her head. Ava’s body trembles like she was about to shift herself and run in there if Macey hadn’t stopped her.

“Everly, shift!” I command through the mindlink. She tenses and looks at me over her shoulder and fights my command when Ava notices my command over her she yells at me.

“She can’t! Drop your command! You are distracting her!” Ava snapped at me and my brows furrowed in confusion and I was about to ask what she was talking about when John’s huge wolf stalks toward Everly and she backs up, turning to her side, making herself a smaller target but still she doesn’t shift.