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“Okay,” Sienna agreed. “What’s first?”
“Stamina is important. Let’s do half an hour of cardio. I’ll do every exercise with you, and it’s very important that you keep up with me.”
A memory of her and Aiden’s gym dates flashed in front of her mind. They did a lot of all sorts of cardio. Her favorite one was definitely the one they did on the mat. It was also the sweatiest one.
To her dismay, Aiden put on his hardcore rock music. It must’ve been another one of the rules she couldn’t argue with. They started on the treadmill, slow at first, but with a steady growing pace. Soon after, Sienna found her feet pumping against the mill in beat with the music.
They moved on to the jump rope, jumping jacks, all kinds of stretches, side steps lunges, and a few other exercises before they cooled down with prone and side bridges, prone and side plank, and crunches. Sienna half-expected Aiden to want to do push-ups too, but he didn’t.
“That’s it for today,” Aiden announced, jumped on his feet, and shook his whole body to relax the muscles.
“What?” Sienna asked bewildered. “But we didn’t do anything yet. You didn’t even let me punch anything!”
“You’re not ready,” he said with a shrug.
“I am!” she argued.
“No, you’re not,” he snapped, and took a step toward her until their faces were inches apart. “You’re winded and you’re barely standing. Your muscles aren’t used to being pushed so much, and I guarantee you that if you don’t feel it now, tomorrow you’ll be sore all the way to the bone.”
“But—”
“No buts! The rules said you do what I tell you to do without hesitation or complaining,” he barked. “Or have you changed your mind about me training you?”
Sienna bit her lip then shook her head.
“I thought so,” Aiden said with a smirk. “Come on, there’s one more thing for us to do before the training is fully over.”
“What’s that?” she asked with a spark of hope.
“We’re going to take an ice bath.”
Sienna groaned, but that was about all the reaction she allowed herself. She didn’t want Aiden to change his mind about training her. A part of her knew that he was right, but was too proud to say so. Her whimpering when she went up the stairs was enough of a confirmation for him. She went to put some clothes on and when she returned to the living room, Aiden was chilling on the sofa, watching his favorite action movie. Despite doing every exercise together, Aiden wasn’t as affected by the training session as she was. She looked forward to the day when she’d be in the same shape as he was. She was sure it would come.
CHAPTER 3
Siennasmackedthehandoff her shoulder, but it didn’t work because it returned and shook her harder. She groaned in frustration and tried to move to the side, but the hand kept a firm grip on her.
“Get up.”
A faraway voice echoed through her head, but she decided not to listen to it and ignore it instead. Maybe if she pretended it wasn’t there, it would go away.
“Get up.”
The voice came louder as if it was spoken right into her ear. The tickling sensation made her groan in frustration. She couldn’t ignore it anymore.
“Get up.”
The sound accompanied by a firm shake of her body forced her to open her eyes. She blinked a bunch of times to get rid of the sleepiness in them.
“Aiden? What’s wrong?” she asked when her brain recognized his features.
He covered her mouth with a palm of his hand and made ashhsound. Everyone was asleep except them. It didn’t make sense to her.
“Let’s go,” he whispered. “It’s time to train.”
Realization hit her hard. For the first time, she wondered if maybe Jensen was right and this whole thing was a bad idea. She wasn’t a morning person and didn’t want to become one, but she also didn’t want to keep on being a damsel in distress. These two things didn’t go hand in hand, which was why she had to weigh her options. The decision was obvious when she let Aiden pull her out of bed.
The moment her body got into motion, she let out a loud whimper as her muscles screamed in pain. Aiden abruptly covered her mouth again and narrowed his eyes at her. Sienna’s eyes filled up with tears and her brows furrowed as her face contorted with pain.
