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    “You’re serious?” The other man grabbed his arm in disbelief.


    Ellis’s mouth curled ever so slightly. “Can’t let her waltz through that easily.”


    Michael looked baffled. Easy? With so many traps and roadblocks scattered across the route, only about twenty contenders were still standing out of the original swarm.


    Ellis didn’t waste time acknowledging his colleague’s look. Without another word, he dropped from the tree, moving like a ghost in the direction Freya was heading.


    This was his turf. Tracking someone like Freya in silence was child’s y for him.


    Freya remained oblivious to the eyes locked on her. While her skills were decent at this stage, they were nowhere near what they would one day be. Her stamina too, back then, wasn’t what it wouldter grow to be.


    When she noticed she was roughly two hundred yards from bursting out of the jungle and reaching the goal, she forced herself to kick into a higher gear. But after just a few…


    Strides, a figure suddenly appeared ahead of her. She couldn’t make out his features, but everything about him screamed danger.


    Still, she didn’t stop. She veered to the side, trying to go around him.


    Ellis arched a brow as he watched her move.


    Out of all the assessments he had conducted, this was the first time someone had tried to slip past rather than engage him directly. He stepped in to intercept, holding back on the first strike.


    With a single move, Freya was knocked backward a pace.


    She frowned, calcting quickly. Fighting was pointless, and escaping? That wasughable against someone with his edge in speed, strength, and instincts.


    “If you can hold out against me for ten minutes, I’ll let you pass,” Ellis offered, entirely focused on testing her mettle—so much so, he didn’t even register the stubborn glint on her otherwise gentle face.


    Freya asked, “Are you even allowed to make that call?” Before, she might have taken a moment to properly size him up. But not today. Her head was solely in the game.


    Besides, with that camouge covering half his face, she didn’t care to look too closely.


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    “I can,” Ellis replied, his voice low andposed, barely moving his lips as if this was all routine.


    Freya didn’t waste another second andunched herself into the fight. The moment they shed, she understood why he had said ten minutes.


    Ten? She would be lucky tost five.


    She had never known what it felt like to strike something that felt like solid iron until now.


    Every time her limbs connected with his, it was like mming into steel. He didn’t even flinch, while she felt every bit of the impact.


    Another hit drove her back several steps.


    Gritting her teeth against the pain, she surged forward again, scooping a fistful of dirt in one swift motion as she ran.


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