“Come at me you weakling,” Lance shouted as a means to infuriate me and it was working.

Growling aloud, I moved fast for an attack but he caught my every move. At the beginning of the training, he was only using the power of reading thoughts but then I blocked him out and I still didn’t even stand a chance and he had to stay on the defensive side.

“You’re being weak Hayley, focus your energy. You have a lot of it,” he said, still stopping my attacks.

I realized that he paid way too much attention to my attacks from the arm and I was able to hit a...