The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0578

The next morning is chaotic. Lily and I took charge of the situation once Alpha Eric found his mate. While

I understood that he just wanted to take her somewhere private and mark and mate her, he was recovering from wollsbane, and she was needed to provide medical attention as people woke.

We began pulling all of Benjamin’s dead pack members outside, away from the packhouse. More carefully, we began collecting and laying Alpha Leander’s dead inside the packhouse. We covered them with blankets that the omegas brought to us. As people woke, they began looking for their loved ones. Many fell the severed bond when they woke.

While we couldn’t save everyone, Lily and I protecting Liam inadvertently helped to save many of the other pack members. If we hadn’t woken when we did, who knows how many pack members would have died.

The ranked members wake up first. Anders and Leander must have realized what happened when they

woke up in our bedroom, barricaded in. After checking their mates and baby Liam, they moved the

barricades and came rushing down the stairs.

Leander took charge of the situation, sending pack members as they woke to see the medical personnel. Lily reported what she had gathered about the dead and those impacted by the wolfsbane. When Alpha Christopher woke, his concern for his human mate and her fetus had him heading home to be treated by

his medical team.

By mid–morning. Lily and I were exhausted, having battled through most of the night and into the

morning. Once everyone was awake, we went to our room, showered and collapsed on our beds

exhausted.

When we re–emerged, all the visiting Alphas, except Alpha Eric

to their packs. While it seemed that Alpha Benjamin

own packs were

about what had happened. Alpha Benjamin’s pack would be dismantled, and the pack members would face trial for their attempt to kill

in the attack

The celebration of Liam’s birth was cancelled in light of all the

and Lily made plans to

pack was disbanded. Several groups of his now–rogue members attack our pack, attempting a retaliation. Lily and I are always involved in defending our pack. She and I have become a powerful fighting machine. We work in tandem, not needing communication. We just know and understand what the other person is going to do. None of the attacks on our pack present much of an issue

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hear that many of the displaced pack members join Alpha Jerome’s pack. He welcomes them with open arms. It makes us wary of his intentions, but other than the occasional unexplained death

developed quite a friendship and get

it was because she was a human, or if the drugs that Alpha Benjamin and

previous doctor, Zoey, taking her as his Luna. Four months after officially making her his Luna, they welcomed their first child, a boy. We were invited to the Harvest Moon Pack’s celebration of their Alpha heir. It was nice to see Zoey again and see how she’s come into her own. I don’t know if they struggled with her being Luna and maintaining her medical practice, but they’ve

after the celebration. That night, I curl up with my mate. “Are you still okay with waiting to have a child?” I ask her. We’re at an age where many friends and other packs are finding their

my arms, facing

at her, kissing her nose. “I asked you first. What do

with Luna Estella. I know she loves her mate, and wants time with him, but being a parent and running a pack pulls her in many different directions.” She licks her lips, looking at mine. I can feel my body responding to the non–verbal

adventurous in the bedroom, or, wherever the urge takes us.” I smile,

body sing before we have to go train. I

we’re both selfish. Nearly a year after taking you as my mate, I still can’t get enough of you. I want you every minute of every day. So, if you want to wait, so I