The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0153

Six months ago

As I drive away from Cara’s birthday party, I call my Beta, Dustin.

“Alpha?” His excitement and hopefulness feel like a punch in the gut. Everyone in my pack was hoping Cara would choose me.

“I’m staying in the city tonight. Have someone clear out my room.” I’d had my room decorated with the expectation that I’d be bringing my new Luna home. There were flowers and candles around the room, setting the ambience for a romantic night of marking and mating. But that won’t be happening, and I can’t bear to see the remnants of my plans. So, I’ll stay in my apartment in the city.

“What’s the plan?” He asks, his tone considerably more subdued. Everyone knows we need a Luna. I’m nearly 25 and have yet to find my mate. Pretty soon, I’ll have to choose a mate. I had chosen someone, Cara, that I thought was worthy of being the Luna of my pack. I haven’t found anyone else that met the criteria that she did.

the Alpha, Alpha Jerome, but not before a teenaged Eli Gunnar, known as the Banished Beta, got to my mother and killed her. He was found with her bloody body in his arms. He ran and escaped. My father searched for him for years before he

venom he put in her body. But having him in close proximity has only made me more blood thirsty.

some company?”

a

Inc. has two arms, one in construction and one in security. Both are easy businesses

pack financially

human area, and my manager is a human. It’s helpful when there are drifters that come through town for short periods of time. I frequently employ bear shifters, fox shifters and once I even hired a lion shifter, although that didn’t last long as he tried to create a pride/harem with my

residents and employees and head straight to the bar. When I sit, the bartender looks

when he brings my amber colored liquid to me, I shoot it down and tap my glass on the bar. “Just

I don’t want it to be. Back to the time when I still had a chance with Cara. She’s a Guardian, born from two Guardians. She is strong, powerful, fierce and beautiful. Everything I want in a Luna, except she’s not