#Chapter 23: Follow Your Heart

I tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep. I had remembered distantly that warrior training had been advertised as part of the curriculum for Lunarhaven Academy. But I hadn’t given it much thought since I enrolled. Since I’d gotten pregnant, I hadn’t even considered it. Now, I was trapped. I had approached Coach privately after the announcement, but he said there was no way out of the training, not even for me. It was absolutely mandatory for all students. “I’ll see if I can find some way to help you,” he had promised, but it had come in the same breath as, “But I really don’t know what we can do.” Now, in bed, I pulled the blankets over my head and groaned. Maybe if I spent extra time learning the defensive moves, I could protect my stomach somehow. No, that wouldn’t be enough. My reaction time had been slowing with my pregnancy. I couldn’t expect to protect myself at every moment. Suddenly, a knock on the door roused me from my dire thoughts. I checked the cl