The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0602

My Lily bud is always here, watching over me and Cara. It changes things for me. It makes the days easier. I have no intention of letting my mate down, so I begin to plan what needs to happen to train my daughter and make her the strongest Guardian alive.

That does give me a moment of pause. Guardians are reborn, so where is Andra’s Guardian spirit?!

would look after her too, make sure she is safe. I need to talk to Anders about that, see if she’s popped

up somewhere and I’ve just been so lost in my grief that I didn’t pay attention.

The next couple of days, I make a plan to build a training ground for Cara. I make a list of all the

materials I’ll need and what I can do in the interim while I’m building. When I go to the store for my dinner with Anders, I grab some steaks, potatoes and green beans. I pick Cara up from school and send her to the table to do her homework while I start dinner. It’s Thursday and I have a lot to prepare before Anders

arrives.

“Dad, what’s going on?” Cara says, watching me from the dining room table as I bustle around the

kitchen.

“I have a lot to discuss with Anders tonight. I have some ideas for your training.” I stop and turn to her.” Are you and Artemis ready to begin your training, not only as a warrior of this pack but also as

Guardians?”

I watch as her face transitions from disbelief, to surprise to excitement. “You and Donovan are going to

train us?”

“No one knows how to train a Guardian better than another Guardian.”

says, jumping up and rushing to hug

I’m going to work you hard, Cara. I’ll push you harder than you knew you could

Artemis’s voice overlaying with my daughter’s. Donovan pushes forward, goddess it’s good to have

tell Cara about Lily and about our life together. I know I’ve

he arrives, and dinner is almost ready. The meal he brought with him is put in the fridge and we have a nice dinner together, the three of us. I continue to relay stories. of Lily to Cara over dinner, with Anders telling some of his own about my mate. When we finish dinner, before Cara heads upstairs to

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She kisses my cheek and heads upstairs. I watch her go, realizing how much I haven’t been there for

we move into the living room. I grab my plans and take a seat across from him. “Lily came to me in a dream this week. Besides telling me that she’s always here.” I spread my arms to include this room, because maybe she is

head in agreement. “Does that mean you’re finally going to come back and participate in

your help getting the foundation of an indoor and outdoor training facility started. I can’t get it set into the ground, but I can do the

me like I’ve lost my mind. “And, just how to plan to build not one, but two training facilities

I’m a Guardian and I’m going to start rebuilding the strength in my upper body. I’ll do that by building these two structures.” I hand him my plans. “As to why I won’t train her with your warriors? Eventually, she can start training with them, she’ll need the sparring experience, but I’m going to get her started for the first couple of years, and I’ll always train her in the afternoons. She’s a Guardian and she needs to be trained like a

whistles, looking back up

laughs, handing them

you want to

“Yesterday.”

builders co

the to be here on Monday after Cara goes to

another Guardian awakening.” She could still be underage, and being hidden, like we are

only been five years since Lily’s death. If the new Guardian was only 10 at the t still be a minor. “Please just keep your ears open for me. If we find her, I want

leaves that night, he turns to me. “It’s good to have

to feel like I

a use in this

time, she

I shake m

me to see that I need to look at things differently. And now that I