Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 140 Simon POV: “He’ll go for your weaknesses, any area that he can find to squeak in he’ll use it,” | explained to the alpha.

Grayson looked over the map of his land and evaluated where his weaknesses were, and to be honest from my point of view there were very few. With Towers in the front to protect him from where he didn’t have mountains guarding his sides. But the mountains were far enough out there to be any true protection.

We agreed that he should put outposts out there and motion sensors with heat signatures. The issue was there was wildlife everywhere so | got put together a computer program that went through the photos captured and sorted out if any were humans.

He didn’t seem to appreciate the idea of leaving this to a computer. He was a very traditional man and that much was obvious. He didn’t want to leave this to chance. | tried explaining my programming wasn’t chance but he didn’t seem convinced.

| was surprised he'd askedto assist him on this but when he explained that he wanted someone who had spent twith Marcus to help show his faults it was quite clever. | had to admit that | should have expected as much from Annette’s husband she was clever and | couldn't imagine her to be with a dumb meathead.

It madechuckle thinking of Marcus imagining he was in the sleague as these two.

“Thank you for allowingto help | know I'm probably a security risk to you,” | commented.

H Anna said that you were faltering in your loyalty from the start, that makestrust you,” he explained.

| shuffled from side to side of course she knew from the start like | said she was clever, | still wanted to prove myself, show that | could help, how | could use my intelligence for more than just evil.

1/4 Chapter 140 We decided to put the outposts up around higher points so they had better vantage and we installed the motion sensors.

you know you should try going to the gym nobody's going to protect you when they're all fighting for their lives,” Grayson toldone day.

The gym had never been a place I'd wanted to be, full of meatheads and mouth breathers.

Entirely different from myself, | had avoided it like the plague. What can | say? Grown-ups still fear their childhood bullies and the place of all their torment.

“I'l know things were run differently in your old pack, but here we lean on each other,” Matt chimed in.

‘I don’t need help,” | scoffed and instantly regretted it trying not to insult my new pack members 66 ‘I could break you like a twig, you need a lot of help,” Matt laughed and even with only one arm he could breaklike a twig.

So little by little, | started training first just running. Apparently, it was a horrifying sight, Annette teasedbut started running alongside me. The amount of protein these people ate did start fillingup and Grace PI orderednot to touch vegetables until | gained more weight.

Soon enough | was in the ring and | was learning moves. Grayson was right it was different here. We didn’t fall behind and here they helped you learn. | Admired them. | suppose this was the sway in the classroom.

Eventually, | found myself sitting with a group of rouges every day training with them, bulking up and the idea of entering the training house didn’t seem so daunting.

| still knew there were speople who didn’t wantaround who didn’t trust me. | would look over my shoulder as | practiced my sparring and I'd catch her eye. Shaking her head at me. She still could breaklike a twig.

| didn’t know what to do to try and gain her respect but | knew Elizabeth held an important position within the pack and life would be hard without her approval. | didn’t want my sister 2/4 Chapter 140 to face any more repercussions because of me.

| tried to cup to her and say something nice, but she just walked away from me. Her eyes lingered onwith that sevaluating expression.

| asked Annette what it would take and she simply stated that only twould putin Elizabeth's good graces. That Elizebeth didn’t that easily and due to past events she has grown even more uncertain of those around her.

| knew who her husband was the doctor we had been conversing with. He hadn't liked how infatuated Hrqyyson was with Annette and didn’t trust it bring ruin upon their pack so he gave out sinformation to Marcus hoping it would take care of the problem. What he hadn't expected was the continual partnership and to eventually die for his treason.

If | remember correctly Elizebeth watched her husband die. Poor woman. | decided to leave well enough alone so long as she didn’t make it her mission to disrupt my life | would force her to be my acquaintance.

| was thankful Grayson had forcedto train it was only a matter of tbefore we found ourselves on the battlefield again. | wouldn't be spared this time. Marcus would raise this place to the ground in order to get Annette back. | had only been here so long, and the d only been here so long, and the thought of that lit a fire in me.

This place with its kind people, it's hidden beauty in its small valley. I'd cto find it as home, and | wanted to protect it. So | trained and perfected the program to detect movement in the outskirts of our land. I helped Grayson and Matt shore up the defenses more and run scenarios for attack.

| beca part of the community and was surprised at how little effort it took | was placed among those at the head table at the pavilion and people didn’t sneer at me, not openly anyway.

4 We still had a lot to conquer, Deacon terrifiedto my very core he was a man of precision and he would cfor us. Grayson had drilled his warriors into fighting machines. We had doubled our resources when it cto weapons and ammunition and armor. But they never played the fair game. | still felt that uneasy feeling in my stomach like this could all go so quickly.

3/4 Chapter 140 | felt dread thinking of it | didn’t want to see it happen, | wanted to protect this place. Even with what muscle I'd earned. to help them save this from the monsters that we had escaped. For myself and for my sister. Hopefully what we had done was enough.