The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0293

Ten years old

“How’s my beautiful girl?” My dad asks me as I walk down the stairs of our packhouse on my 10th birthday.

“Good morning Daddy. I’m good. I can’t wait to get my wolf today!”

I’ve been the apple of my father’s eye for ten years. He is always proudly taking me around, introducing me to our pack members and other pack members through the years. I walk over and hug him as he kisses the top of my head.

“Happy birthday sweetheart.” My mother says, coming up and kissing my cheek. “How do you feel? Any different yet?”

“Not yet. Should I feel different?”

“It can happen at any time today, Gracie. Don’t fret.” My father tells me, chucking me gently under the chin.

My parents have a big party planned for me tonight. I’m hoping that I can shift before my party and maybe I’ll be lucky enough to run into my party as my wolf. As an Alpha female and my father’s only heir, it would be fitting. The pack would love it.

Everyone in the pack adores me, or at least respects my position as their future Alpha. As I go through my day, I’m continually wished a happy birthday and everyone asks if I’ve heard from my wolf yet.

As my party draws closer, I express my concern to my mother. “Mom, what if she doesn’t come before the party. What will I do?”

“Grace, honey, it’s okay. Your wolf will come when she’s ready. Just be patient. If she’s not here tonight, maybe she’ll come tomorrow.”

a little makeup and then the

after everyone in the pack, making sure that their needs are addressed and

warrior training and he can be fierce and intimidating, but that’s what a good Alpha is. He leads by example and I

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guides me to the stage and I can tell my father is a little disappointed that I haven’t gotten my wolf yet. But he wishes me a happy birthday, giving me my favorite drink, a Shirley Temple, and makes a toast to me, the pack’s future

made an appearance. Every day my father asks if she has awakened, and every day I have to tell

with my father changes. It’s as if he blames me for not having a wolf, as if I am purposefully keeping her from him. I begin to dread the mornings,

asks me. “Did your wolf awaken?” When I tell him no, it’s the last thing he says to me until the next

the Moon d I do something wrong? Is the Moon Goddess angry with me?” Every night, my mother holds me as I cry, rocking me and trying to soothe my anxiety and frustration. But there is nothing that can

to my mother every night.

is your fault.” He snarls at her one day. “I should never have taken

my 11th birthday. My father starts the day as he always does. “Did your wolf

him more angry. “No father.”

party to celebrate tonight since there is nothing to celebrate.” He

parents‘ room. I rush into their room, thinking we are under attack but what I see nearly stops my heart. My father has my mother against the wall, holding her by her neck.

me standing there. “Get out!” He yells at me. As

Can’t make

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to watch as

pain that she’s feeling at my father’s abuse. “Go on sweetheart. Go back to

at her and begins ripping at her clothes with