Chapter 0030

heels himself into the living room.

“Hey sweetheart, what’s today’s offering?” He says with a grin.

I sigh. “I’ll tell you, but we need to talk. It’s really important. You know I wouldn’t interrupt training if it wasn’t, but we need to have this conversation before Alpha Anders comes by tonight.”

“Of course. Let’s go sit in the living room and you can tell me what’s going on.

I sit, and dad wheels himself in front of me to give me his undivided attention. I start at the beginning, telling him about the gift basket. I tell him how the cards. have gotten more bold each day, starting with Monday’s guessing game to today’s professing his desire to be the one who takes care of me.

‘Sweetheart, it’s not uncommon for Guardians to have males attempting to claim their love or favor. Your mother had many men trying to gain her favor in her day and your birthday is in a couple of months. I’m not sure I understand what the concern is.”

“Dad, almost immediately after I opened my gift, Alpha Liam walked into the cafeteria with a huge black bear on his shoulders. He looked like he’d just come from fighting and killing the creature. He even still smelled of blood and fighting. Cyran announced to the cafeteria that he brought the bear as an offering for Artemis.”

My dad whistles appreciatively and starts to speak, but I cut him off.

“That’s not all dad. When Artemis accepted Cyran’s offering, Kai snarled a challenge. I’m not sure why he did it, maybe he felt that Liam and Cyran were being disrespectful to his packmate that is sending me the offerings, but either way, if Chase hadn’t pulled him out of the building and I hadn’t distracted Cyran, they would have fought. Over ME! It was bad.”

My dad looks at me thoughtfully for a minute. “And you don’t know why Kai issued the challenge to Cyran?‘ He asks.

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“No idea. But Liam is serious in his desire to have me as his Luna. We talked about it last week. He knows I’m waiting for my mate, but he also thinks HE is my mate, so he’s perfectly happy to wait. That is, until someone else started putting a claim on Artemis and L.”

man? Maybe he is the one that is staking his claim and Alpha Liam recognized it as

you, but Rik doesn’t

you say that

school and ask me my name and

looks dumbfounded for a minute before regaining his composure.

else is in

Jason check the betting pool, since you know

smirks, “Of

Trevor and Jason.” I scrunch

just raises a

thoughtfully for a minute. “We can remove Liam, and Rik, so that leaves Chase and Trevor as the biggest possibilities. I’ve never gotten any

far away as he looks out into

responds, “Trevor is a good bet. He’s a strong warrior and would want a strong mate. But I don’t see Alpha Rik challenging Alpha Liam because of a perceived slight. It’s common enough for males to fight over Alpha females that it doesn’t make sense for him to

Cyran from fighting Kai while Chase and some of the Canyon Ridge warriors pulled Rik out of the cafeteria, so….” I take

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But instead of him being angry

of the strongest Alphas tomorrow along with the strongest warrior on the planet?” I open my eyes and nod. He rubs his

I’m shocked. “Really?

it is Anders. He’s been trying to get me to train his warriors for years and now I’m going to be training the Alpha of

back peddling and I know it. Of course Alpha

wheels past me. “Oh I can’t wait to see his face. Tonight is going to be fun. First his son almost starts a

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