The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0078

The next time I wake up, not only do I feel stronger, but I have a minute where Artemis is forward. She let’s me know that she’s countering the venom but it will be another week before she’s back to full strength, but she has effectively eliminated his mark from our neck. The bruises will take longer as she has been focusing on healing other things first.

When I open my eyes, Lacey, Jason and my father are in the room. Dad’s attention immediately snaps to me. “Honey, you’re awake. How are you feeling?”

“I’m better. Artemis says she’s winning the battle of the venom and that Eli’s mark is gone. Is that true?” I pull the hospital gown to the side and see everyone’s eyes go wide. Lacey jumps up, pushing my neck to one side before pushing it to the other, and pulling the other side of my gown away from my body. “Oh my goddess! Your wolf is amazing! All the marks are gone!”

“Wait. ALL the marks? How many were there?”

They all look at each other uncomfortably. It’s my dad that answers my question. “Honey, you had multiple puncture wounds on both sides of your neck. It appears he was trying to put as much of his venom into your system as possible to force your body to shut down so he could cement the mate bond.”

I’m shocked, although I shouldn’t be. “I’ll remember to tell Artemis how awesome she is then.”

as they fill me in

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I’m a bit surprised to hear that Liam and Rik played such a central role in my return but I haven’t seen either one of them. I know they are busy,

look at each other.

“What?” I ask.

Jason that responds. “Well, your dad may have gone all Guardian on them.” “Yeah,” Lacey picks up the conversation, “They apparently had some

+15 BONOS

“Yeah and that if they wanted to get to you, they’d have to go through him.” He says with awe in

what to say. First, that whatever happened between Rik and Liam in my room seems to be similar to what happened in school on the day Liam brought the bear. And that my dad got all protective and basically pulled rank on two

Anders didn’t say

old Guardian was back. Did

else did I