The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0308

It’s exhausting constantly running, riding on bus after bus. We haven’t had a decent meal or shower in a week. Benny called the day after we left and let me know two ‘shady looking men‘ were in the diner asking about a young woman. When Eli finally feels like we can stop overnight, we get a hotel room. At first, 1 was concerned about only having one room, but I’m too tired to argue. When we get to our room, I see that there are two beds.

“Get a shower. I’ll be back in a bit.”

“Where are you going?” I ask him.

‘I’m going to look around and make sure we aren’t being followed and then I’m going to get us something decent to eat. Do not open the door for anyone.”

He comes over taking my face in his hands and kisses my forehead. He pulls back and looks in my eyes. “You’ll be safe. I won’t be gone long.”

on the water, letting it get warm before stripping off my clothes and getting under the stream of hot water. I lift my

north to Iowa then west again until we got to Wyoming. Once we got to the Rocky Mountains, we started heading south. We went through Colorado, New Mexico and finally started heading east through Texas. I wasn’t sure if Eli had a plan to get us back to Alpha Rik and Alpha Liam’s packs, but he’d

harder while we were in the Rockies. Much like the Appalachian Mountains back home, the Rockies are a great place for wolf packs to live without too much interaction with humans. But we pretty much stayed on the buses and kept to ourselves. Now we’re in the middle of Texas, headed back

a master at evasion. I guess twenty years on the run will do that. He’s stealthy, quick and quiet when checking to see if we’re being followed. When we were, he was able to guide us onto buses

in the sink to soak until after Eli has showered, then I’ll put them I there with his

door open. “It’s just me.” He says just before the smell

see that he’s managed to get us steaks, potatoes and salads. I’m so hungry I could

into my food. I can’t help the moan that leaves my lips. We haven’t had real food in over a week and this tastes delicious. I’m in my own world, enjoying the taste of the salty juiciness of the steak, my eyes

and I see Eli standing there watching me in nothing but a towel. My eyes travel down his body, and I was right about his physique. He is solid

my lips and when my eyes return to his, I see his

voice is breathier than