The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0591

My girls are the highlight of my life. There is nothing better than having the two of them in my arms together.

Snights, like tonight, | cinto our room and my mate and my daughter are on the floor playing together.

They are playing with blocks and building what looks like a packhouse and pack lands. “There's my girls.” | say

as | walk in.

“Daddy!” My baby girl gets up and runs over. | scoop her up and throw her in the air, listening to her squeal. |

catch her and pull her against me, kissing her face and neck while Donovan purrs against her.

“Daddy, stop!” She says in a fit of giggles.

Lily comes over and wraps her arms around me, hugging me. “Welchome, love.”

| hold Cara in one arm while Donovan continues to purr at her and take my mate in the other, kissing her until |

hear her moaning softly. “I missed you.” | tell her, finally letting her cup for air.

She looks up at me, her eyes filled with love. “I missed you, too.”

| lean in, nuzzling her ear. “Maybe you can showhow much you missedafter we put a certain someone to

bed.”

She reaches up, nipping at my ear. “Deal!”

With that promise. | turn back to my daughter. “So, what are you building over here.”

daughter showsher packhouse, having miniatures of Andra and Donovan. | notice there is now a baby wolf

too. “Who is this?”

“That's my wolf, daddy.”

“It is? What's her name? Did you introduce her to Andra and Donovan?”

She nods her head, and we spend the rest of the night playing wolfpack. These quiet moments of playfulness

together with my girls are the best. It helpsovercthe frustration of the attacks that seem to be coming

more and more frequently.

For Cara’s fourth birthday, | want to take them back to the island that I took Lily for our 4th anniversary. When |

go to see Anders, he is looking over the patrol reports, frowning.

“That bad, huh?”

“It’s never ending. | swear, if I'd known it was going to be like this, I'd have either had Rik sooner or waited even

longer. Having a mate and a pup who is an heir makes all of this more worrisome.” He says as he tosses his

reports across his desk.

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“So, | guess this is a bad tto ask for a long weekend away?”

He looks up at me. “What did you have in mind?”

| tell him and he looks atfor a moment. “How long?”

“Five days.”

He blows out a breath. “Yeah. Sure, go and enjoy your weekend with your family.”

| frown. Anders his never acted like he’s concerned aboutbeing away before.

“What's up?”

“There are several packs making a move against us and Shadow Falls. | know you work hard for me, but —never

mind. Of course, take your family and have a good time.”

“No. | would never leave you during a tof battle or war, Anders. Even if | could, which | can’t being your

Guardian, | wouldn't.” I tell him. “I'll wait and see how things stand for our anniversary, that's a

couple months away still.”

Both mine and Lily’s birthdays pass, and our anniversary and the attacks keep coming. Lily and | are an

amazing fighting machine. Together, no one can defeat us. We can take on 12 wolves between the two of

us when we are together. We know we can count on the other to protect our back and so we can focus

on the fight in front of us. Anders and Charles are both powerful as are our warriors, but it’sand Lily

that are the tipping point in many of our battles.

There is loss. While we decimate the packs that attack us, in every battle we lose swarriors. Then,

sometimes, we lose their mates as well. I've never quite figured out why sometimes the mates can

survive and sometimes they can’t.

Cara's fifth birthday comes along. This time, | already know we can’t go away from a long period of time.

but | need to take my girls away from all the fighting, at least for a couple of days.

| get Anders to agree to a weekend, and we go into the mountains a couple of hours away, Andra and Donovan

run with Cara on their backs, playing tag and catch. Cara laughs and whoever she’s riding on

always miraculously wins.

It's a wonderful weekend. We laugh and play with Cara. | find a mountain peak that is high enough to still have

snow and Andra and Donovan run up the mountain so we can have a snowball fight. Cara wins, of

course. And while we have a perfect twhile we are there, it’s over too soon.

When we return, we're almost immediately back into fighting. Anders begins sendingto Shadow Falls

and leaving Lily behind to ensure that Calista and Rik are safe. | don’t like being away from Lily. Sometimes it’s

necessary, but we don’t fight as well apart and I’m always a bit distracted, trying to keep

my mind link open to her to make sure that she is okay.

One night after Donovan takes Cara out for a run, we cback to our room and Lily seems a bit off.

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“Lily bud, are you okay?”

She turns and smiles at me. “I want to go away for a day, just you and me.”

I walk over to her, pulling her against me. “I like the sound of that. When?”

“Tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow? Baby, | don’t know if we can get away that quickly.”

“Please, Clint. | really want us to go away. Just us. Just for one night. Please.”

“Okay baby, lettalk to Anders.

| turn to go find Anders, but she pullsback. “I love you so much, do you know that? Do you know how

much | love you?”

“Baby, what's going on?” | cup her cheek. Something is definitely wrong.

“I just need stwith you. Things have been crazy and.and | want twith my mate. | need this. | really

need this. | need you.”

“Okay baby. I'll let Anders know. Do you think Calista will watch Cara for us?”

“Ill go talk to her while you talk to Anders.”

“Okay Lily bud.”

When | go to Anders, he originally denies me. But | told him something was up with Lily and he gave in. The next

day, we went away, just my Lily bud and me.

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