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As public anticipation builds, Thoros evaluates strength, temperament, and control, watching contestants with a strategist’s intent. The narrative centers on Dalin’s emergence—undefeated in posture and driven by resentment—when the order to strip signals the contest’s brutal, personal stakes.","Trained  \nCopyright © 2018 by Tanya Chris ([www.tanyachris.com](www.tanyachris.com))  \nAll rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nThe Choosing  \nSpeed  \nBalance  \nFlexibility  \nGrace  \nEndurance  \nVictory  \nThankYou!  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThoros  \nOnly a handful of people had turned out to watch the choosing. Women mostly, tittering behind the fans they fluttered languorously in the already rising heat. There were more contestants than spectators, though that would change once the real contests began. Nothing much would happen today. But today meant everything to Thoros. Today was the day he’d choose his fighter, the man he would train personally, the one who would bring him victory with its accompanying cash purse.  \nBut more than that.  \nNineteen other trainers waited with Thoros on one of the lower tiers of the stadium—high enough to get an overview of the men arrayed for their consideration, low enough to see some detail—but Thoros would need to get closer before he could choose his fighter. Would need to get very close indeed.  \nGlancing upward, he picked out Princess Atalanta in the royal box flanked by men with ostrich feathers plying her with cooling breezes. She was much too high up for him to guess at her expression, but he could imagine she had as much anticipation as he did. One of the men milling around the stadium would win the right to become her husband, and Thoros intended to make sure it was the one he trained.  \nHe tapped his palm against his knee-length skirt, enjoying the slap of leather against flesh even if it was only his own flesh, impatient for the preliminaries to be over so his work could begin. He had as little interest in pageantry as Atalanta.  \nThey shared other tastes too, tastes he’d learned about from their mutual attendance at private parties of a certain nature to which the Princess came heavily masked but unmistakable. So he knew what Atalanta wanted in a man. Knew it because he wanted it himself.  \nHe would train her the perfect slave, then turn him over to her in exchange for a hefty purse and the satisfaction of having won. And if  \nThoros enjoyed himself along the way …well, only he and Atalanta needed to know that.  \nThe contest had attracted men from every walk of life, nobility mingling with plebeians and bondservants, rags next to riches, more than a hundred, of whom only twenty would be chosen to compete. Even from this distance, Thoros had been able to narrow his prospects down to a handful of candidates—men strong enough to bear up under the training regime he had in mind, men handsome enough to call out the sadist in him. What he couldn’t judge from a distance was their fire. Or their pliability. He needed a very specific combination of both.  \nOne man in particular attracted his eye. Barely dressed in a ragged tunic marking his low birth, the man kept to himself, not mingling with his fellow contestants. His proud bearing contrasted to his rude dress. His dark hair was long enough to be tied up in a knot at the back of his head, and he had the clean-shaven jaw of a house servant. He stood solidly, taller than most of the men around him, slender as if he hadn’t been fed well but better built than the average house servant, a separate pillar in the teeming mass. Physically, the man was perfect, but whether he had the right temperament remained to be seen.  \nFinally, the King’s Chancellor gave the order Thoros had been waiting for.  \n“Strip.”  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDalin  \n“Strip.”  \nAround Dalin, a confused rumble rose from the mass of men who were to be his competitors, while up in the stands the scattered crowd gave a murmur of anticipation. 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