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.

ask that, I hear how dumb it sounds

he’ll come with me, I feel relief,

morning, school, two hours of training at night, dinner, homework, sleep, repeat. Even my weekends are focused on training and studies. You see where I’m going? There has never been room for dating in my 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 last time. But, that’s not a date. I’m nearly 18 years old and I have no idea how to act or what to do on

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, right? I mean, we had dinner last night with our

arrived at school and I realize I haven’t given him an answer. ‘Just go. It can’t be that hard.‘ Artemis pipes in and makes up my mind.

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

thanks me because I agreed to our date, that piece of my heart that already belonged to Rik, got a bit larger. His quick

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 doesn’t care who may be watching. All he seems to care about is

to all my classes, sneaking in kisses before he

to have thawed overnight and I swear it’s only making Chase try harder. Good luck with that.

leave the lunchroom and get to my next class, I decide to turn the tables and before he can sneak in a kiss, I reach up grab the collar of his shirt and pull him to me. I don’t just peck his lips, I go all in and it only takes him a second to respond. Before I know it,

kiss.