The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0548

I watch as her eyes flick to Clint, then back to Alpha Patrick. “What does that have to do.” Alphal Patrick’s aura pushes out even stronger and she yelps before cutting off her question.

“Answer the question, Anna.” He says and his voice is not friendly or kind.

“Yes.” She squeaks out.

“Did you receive my Alpha command that no one in the pack was allowed to speak of Lily being a

Guardian to anyone outside of the pack?”

“Yes.” This response is much more relaxed. If she did it, she didn’t realize she was giving away information about me. It wasn’t intentional, or at least, not consciously intentional. I feel Alpha Patrick’s

aura subside a bit, but Clint does not relax beside me.

“When you were having sexual relations with Beta Terrance, did the subject of Lily ever come up?”

She shakes her head. “No. I heard he was asking around about her, but no one said anything that I know

of, and he never asked me.”

I can feel Clint getting more tense beside me. He doesn’t believe her. I reach out and lay my hand on his arm. Going off on Anna isn’t going to help and so far, I believe her. I feel his body relax and he reaches up. taking my hand in his, intertwining our fingers. The action does not go unnoticed by Anna. Clint stares back at her, unflinching. He’s making a point. Whether it’s to her or me, I’m not sure.

“What did the two of you talk about?”

uncomfortable. “Uhhh, well, we didn’t talk a lot. We were busy, you know. I mean, there was, uh, discussion while we were having sex.” She

blink. Anna is trying his patience. I’m guessing he must feel this way most days. Being an

Calvin picks up the interrogation. “Unless that conversation had to do with Lily, no, we don’t want to hear it. Was there any conversation before or after

kind of in a hurry, you know? But afterward, he did ask

all of our attention. “What about Clint?”

said he thought we had a Guardian in our pack but he hadn’t seen him. I told him they went

says and she waves her

her. Her hand

what you said? THEY?”

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moving but nothing coming out. Finally, it dawns on her what she did.

eyes go wide and her mouth makes a perfect ‘0“.

“I swear

never go against your Alpha command. Please you have to believe me.” She says, and tears are streaming

hands down his face. “You’re on kitchen duty for a month.” He

take

Alpha is going to know that she’s an

his mate calms him, as he said, then I need to do that right now before he

is heaving but he doesn’t take his eyes off of Anna. I can hear her sobs getting louder. She may not be bright, she may be a jealous she–wolf, but she isn’t devious.

say more forcefully.

me against him. “They can’t have you. None of