The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0205

Cara’s request to keep Angel longer is advantageous. It means I will have more time with Eli today.

As I walk out with Rik, I ask the question that’s been sitting uneasily in my mind. “How do you do it?” I ask and look at him..

“Which part?” He asks chuckling.

I chuckle too. “Sorry. How do you handle being mated to a Guardian, knowing she would lay down her life for you? As an Alpha, I can’t wrap my head around it. That’s our job, we’re the protectors of the pack, the entire pack. How do you do it?”

His smile fades and looks off into the forest before answering. “It’s not easy. It’s in their genes, just like it’s in ours. We protect our pack, they protect us. I told Cara after Eli kidnapped her that I didn’t ever want her sacrificing herself for me again. I asked her to stand beside me, rather than in front of me. That’s the key, I think.” He stops and looks at me.

“You have to agree to treat her as an equal and she has to agree to fight beside you when the time comes. It’s a compromise on both sides, one I was willing to make to try to keep her safe. Cara may be the Luna of this pack, but she is my equal. That said, she also submitted to me.”

I whip my head to look at him. “Cara submitted to you?”

His eyes take on a far away look. “She did before we were mated and continues to on rare occasions. I know she doesn’t have to and nothing I would do or say could force her to, so it has to come from her.”

“How? How did you get her to submit to you?” I ask.

His eyes refocus on me. “By being everything she needs and wants in a mate. By being a better man than I ever thought I could be, because she expects it, demands it. When I did that, she submitted to me on her own. So, we are equals, but I am still her Alpha.”

I nod, thinking. I have no idea what Angel would expect from me or want in a mate. I need to start figuring that out if this is going to work between us. “Thanks Rik.”

“Anytime. We still need to meet about our plans for the vampires and protecting our borders.”

Rik nods. “I’ll bring Chase.”

home. When I arrive, I

walk to the front of his cell. “One chance Eli. Why’d you

response is the same. “I didn’t kill Luna Estella.”

at him. “Do not say her name. You don’t get to say

the guards. “String

head. I let the frustration of everything over the past couple of weeks come out. My mate nearly dead, vampires wanting to take her from me again, all the suffering that Angel had to endure, Angel being a Guardian, my mother’s death,

his hands, unable to stand. “Why did you

do it.” He says. I swing a final punch, knocking him

usual, give him enough food and water

when I realize I’ve been down here much longer than I realized. I need to get upstairs and

smell her scent. Raspberries and cream. My mind and body calm. I

into the shower and washing off the blood and gore from Eli’s beating. I’m

Dustin.

“Alpha, she’s running!”

“Who’s running?”

she’s fucking fast, you need to get out here.”

and down the hall. I shift. as I leap over the banister of the stairs, landing on the bottom floor on all

Cyran races out.

you?” I mind link

up my pace. I didn’t even know she was back home. What spooked her

did she get back?” I link.

The patrols saw her running

scent? Could they have found her?”

anything, but she’s a Guardian. Her sense of smell is better

with the patrols, make sure they haven’t