The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0106

Rik picks me up, right on time. I head out to meet him and he seems perturbed, jogging up to me and taking my bag. He kisses me on the nose and I blush.

Romantic Rik is bewitching.

He opens the door for me. Ok, I can totally get into Gentleman Rik as well. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like the attention.

As we head out, he reminds me to ask my question. I don’t know why it’s important to me that he joins me when I visit my mom, but I want him to say yes. My desire for him to join me only makes me feel insecure in asking him, so I start off by telling him he can say no. I swear I hear him scoff.

I get so nervous, I can’t get the words out. I’m rubbing my hands together, looking out the window, trying to find the words, when I feel his hand on mine. I look up at him and he’s got me locked in his intense gaze. Without thinking, I ask

him.

he repeats it back to me, like he can’t believe I would ask that, I hear how dumb it sounds and immediately start backpedaling, telling

he’ll come with me, I feel relief, until he adds the stipulation of

life. Ever. The most I’ve ever done over the last year, is go dancing on Friday nights and more recently Liam would drive me home. Sometimes we’d stop for food, like the

do now. What if Rik thinks I’m too immature to date? What if I do it all wrong and he realizes he’s wasting his time on me. He says it’s not as his girlfriend and he just wants to go to dinner. I can do dinner,

hard.‘ Artemis pipes in and makes up

you, and right now, it’s aimed at me. I feel my heart flutter in my

agreed to our date, that piece of my heart that already belonged to Rik, got a bit larger. His quick kiss on my lips makes me feel special, so when he takes my hand

get to my class, he kisses me again. I know I told him we could do this if 1 agreed to be his girlfriend, but I really like this side of Rik. He doesn’t care who sees us. He

me to all my classes, sneaking in kisses before he leaves to go to his

exterior doesn’t seem to have thawed overnight and I swear it’s only making Chase try harder. Good luck with that.

all in and it only takes him a second to respond. Before I know it, I’m pushed against the wall beside my classroom, his lips bruising in their passion. I run my

kiss.