Chapter 37: A Side She Did Not Know Existed

Chapter 37: A Side She Did Not Know Existed
She did not know why he was asking her this question with a serious expression on his face.

Did he forget that she was training “Did you forget I am training how to fight and master my abilities?

“I didn't, you usually only sustain injuries in your leg and hand. But why is your head injured today?” He still had that serious expression on his face.

“Because I fell”

You fell with your face down?”

“Yes”

“You have to be careful, it seems I will have to speak to Anton. He should be careful when training you. I do not want you to continue having injuries on any part of your body” he said as he touched her face.

“Please do not, he is my trainer and I respect him so much. He is not the reason I fell, I had mistakenly tripped and fell. I will get better with time and train without having a single injury" she said in confidence.

Damian smiled and took it that she was explaining herself to him which he found cute. But he wanted to get something out of it “What will you give to me so I will not  have to talk to him”

“Nothing” she will not agree to offer anything to him just as he manipulated her the last time. Who knows what he will make her do this time.

“Alright then, but I will come watch you train tomorrow”

“Please don't?

Why?” 

“Nothing just don't”

“You are scared I will make fun of you if you mess up during training” Damain smirked.

Althea blinked not knowing what to say because he was right. But she could not understand why she was scared of him watching her mess up. She tried to convince herself that it was because she wanted to prove to him that she could fight and him watching her tomorrow when she is yet to master her skills was not what she wanted.

“Mmm?” Damian pressed on.

“Yes, not now just come maybe in two weeks time” she said feeling that by then she would have gotten better in training.

Damian smiled happily, he felt good that she did not want him to see her mess up. Their relationship was surely improving little by little, he feels that as more months go by she will warm up to him completely and even if she doesn't remember her memories she would at least accept this marriage and would be ready to play the full role of a wife and a leader. Damian stared at her with so much affection.

Feeling uncomfortable from his gaze, Althea moved his hand away from her face and stood up “I need to sleep, I am exhausted” she said to him and rushed to the room since that is the closest place to escape to.

Damian stared at her back as she walked away with a frown on his face.

Althea closed the door and leaned on it. She sighed in frustration. Did she just make him feel that things could get better between them?

The two weeks passed and Althea has now greatly improved. Anton was really helping her with her powers and how to fight along with it while using the sword. She has also learnt to bend things for a bit longer than before. She still has a long way to go but so far so good.

Today she was a bit nervous and that is because Damian was going to watch her, not  only that, he said his aunt would be around. She felt so nervous even when she was not supposed to. She wants to train in her own time and pace but she ends up seeing herself do it because she wants to prove a point to Damian and his aunt. She had promised him that after two weeks he could come watch her and ever since she made that promise, she has been putting in a lot of work.

“Althea, what is wrong with you?” She asked herself as she stared at her exhausted reflection on the mirror “You do not have to be nervous, his opinion and his aunt's opinion doesn’t have to matter, does it” she kept asking herself and the response she got in her head made her more anxious. She could not help but be nervous and she could not understand why. This is the same people and place she really wants to run away from, why will their opinion matter?

“Baroness, Sir Anton, your trainer has arrived and the Baron and his aunt, Lady Maria is already present to watch” Nina said, she was nervous on behalf of her. She has improved but still has a long way to go.

Althea held her sword more tightly to ease her nervousness. She thought she had already learned a lot of sword skills but coming to Westland and being trained by one of the best, she realized there was a lot she didn't yet know. Luis, her personal guard back home is very skilled and taught her a lot, but the kingdom of the North's fight skills is different from that of Westland. They knew more techniques and were quite advanced. So she found herself learning for scratch again.

“I’m ready” She said confidently and headed to the training ground with Nina and her personal guard.

She arrived and could see her trainer standing in the middle of the nkt so large field.

She looked to the building close by and saw Damian and his aunt seated at the balcony. Then there were a few other guards and Arthur present too.

This felt like she was about to have a serious fight tournament. She is only going to be fighting with her trainer like they do sometimes during training. 

Althea's eyes went to Damian and she could see him looking at her in anticipation. She moved her eyes away and walked towards her trainer, she bowed to him and he did the same like they always do before training .

“You ready?” Anton asked. 

“Yes,” Althea said with little confidence.

“You look nervous,” Anton said and looked towards the Baron.

“A bit”

“Because he is present?”

“Well yes, his aunt, lady Maria is here to watch too, and I do not want to look disappointing” Althea said truthfully.

Anton nodded “It’s understandable, but do not worry it will just be our usual training” Anton assured her.

Althea nodded with a smile.

She packed her hair up, today she was putting on brown training long boots with brown pants and a black short sleeve shirt. She looked beautiful like a warrior princess.

They started their training and Damian watched intently. His aunt also watched intently. 

30 minutes have passed since they have been watching. 

Maria was sure seeing a side of her she did not know existed. She watched Althea bend an iron without touching it and raise herself from the ground and she was in awe. Maria did not know she was capable of doing such things.

She looked at Damian, who watched the Baroness with a smile on his face.