Chapter 51

Elodie

The days after the selection passed differently.

People no longer looked at me like I was just gossip. Now they looked at me like I was a question they didn’t know how to answer. Some were afraid. Some were curious. Some pretended not to care, but I could feel it. I could feel everything now.

Training for the selected sixteen began immediately.

No rest. No mercy.

We trained early in the morning and late at night. Physical combat. Strategy. Endurance. Control. The ...