The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0319

‘She’s ours.” Louis roars in my head as he jumps on top of her, his canines sinking into her neck.

I immediately feel the mate bond kick in. I can feel her fear and just before she loses consciousness, I hear her screaming my name in her mind. Maia goes limp. I pump more venom into her while she’s out, making sure that her scent changes to include mine before Louis pulls his canines out.

Louis turns, standing over top of Maia who is now shifting back into her human form. He snarls at the four remaining wolves. She’s marked, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t try to kill me and remark her.

I watch as they look at each other, then at their dead Alpha and the other one I just killed. I see them mind linking each other before they turn and run off. I’m not foolish enough to think that we’re out of the woods yet. I saw the others back at their makeshift camp and they’ll be angry that I killed their Alpha and what I’m guessing is another ranked wolf. Knowing I have the Guardian will only make them more intent on killing me.

a shirt and shorts. I sling both bags over my

I grab some of her clothes and dress Grace. I find a place to leave her, tucking into an empty field right outside of town. I go into town and find a bus station, getting us tickets for the next bus heading east. It leaves in a couple of hours. I’d rather get out of here sooner, but this will have to do. I will somehow have to sneak an unconscious Grace onto the bus without it causing any raised eyebrows. On my way back to get her, I grab some food and some bottles of water. I know she must be starved by now and when she wakes

pick her up, carrying her toward the bus depot. I take the back roads as much as possible until we get to the depot. There, I find where our bus will be leaving, and I sit her next to me, wrapping my arm around her

When we get to the outskirts of a larger town, I decide to get a hotel. I

carrying her off the bus. There’s a hotel about a block away, so I quickly walk down the street carrying Grace. I’m getting some

the hotel, I set her in a chair in the lobby and get a room. When I finally get her into our room,

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