The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0567

Me: Sure. Should I come to the house?

Mom: Actually, I don’t want your father to know. Could you meet me behind the lake?

So, I won’t be having a relationship with my mother, at least not while my father forbids it. I’m sad, but glad that she’s at least willing to recognize me on my birthday. Maybe I can at least get a hug from her.

Me: Sure. What time?

Mom: Your party is in a couple of hours, so how about now?

I turn and look at Clint still sleeping behind me. Maybe he won’t notice that I’m gone.

Me: Sure mom, I’ll be there in about 20 minutes.

I slide out of bed, pulling my pillow down and smiling as Clint wraps himself around it. I put on a pair of shorts and one of Clint’s shirts, tying it at the waist so it doesn’t hang down too long. I grab my shoes and slip out the door, closing it quietly so it doesn’t wake him.

As I head out, I run my fingers through my hair, finger combing it as I head out to the lake. I wave at a couple of people and when I get to the lake, I can’t help but smile at the spot where Clint and I completed our mate bond early this morning.

I walk around to the back side of the lake, looking around for my mother.

“Mom?”

I raise my nose in the air and the minute I smell him, I turn to run. When I do, my father is there, blocking

Alpha Mahli and several of his warriors come

take some of these men,

to take what is mine. Your father promised

handsomely for

to be paid for and I am not yours.”

swinging him to the ground. I

up and jams a syringe of liquid silver

hold on my father, grabbing my side. The pain

breathe.

If you kill her, the deal is off.” Alpha Mahli says to my father.

are you? I’m on my way.” Clint says in the mind link

+15 BONUS

I say, and I think the needle must have punctured my lung. I

I’m almost

She won’t die, but she’s immune

to subdue her.”

I try to take a step back, but my father reaches up,

her

to see me get torn apart by loan

that before you gambled everything away.” I say

she smell like the other Guardian?”

his shirt.” My father