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.”

She says, jumping up and rushing

I’ll

won’t let you down, Dad.” She says, Artemis’s voice overlaying with my daughter’s. Donovan pushes forward, goddess it’s good to have him

pulls back, looking at me, a question in her eyes. “And that reminds me of a promise I made your mother.” So, while I make dinner, I begin to tell Cara about Lily and about our life together. I know I’ve

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

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watch her go, realizing how much I haven’t been there for my little girl.

want to tell me what’s going on?” Anders says to me. He clears the dessert plates, and 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

nods his head in agreement. “Does that mean you’re finally going to

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

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

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

plans I’ve made and whistles, looking back up at me. “Can I steal these when you’re done?”

He laughs, handing them back

want to break ground?”

“Yesterday.”

builders co

some calls and get the to be

Guardian awakening.”

Guardian was only 10 at the t still be a minor. “Please just keep your ears open for me. If we

me. “It’s good to have you back, my friend.”

good to be back. It’s good to

have always had a

time, she

I shake m

I couldn’t be what I had been. As usual, it’s Lily that helps me to see that I need to look at things