The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0603

For the next few years, I get into a pattern of training Cara. We train early in the morning, then while she is at school, I work on my upper body strength by building and testing the training facilities I’m building for her. It’s a work in progress, but I feet closer to Lily while 1 build this for our daughter. In the afternoons, I train Cara again, sometimes joining her, and then it’s dinner, homework and bed before we turn around

and do it again.

Cara is the absolute best daughter a parent could ever want. I don’t know if it’s because we had those years after Lily’s death where I struggled to be present, but she never tests me. She is smart, and we talk about her schoolwork, her studies, and I give her extra Guardian studies during the weekends when she’s

training her endurance in the pool.

The older Cara gets, the more she looks like Lily. She’s gorgeous and I’m thankful that she has listened

to everything I’ve told her about the mate bond and that she’s waiting for her mate. I told her about the struggles Lily and I had when I first met her because of my “loose” ways before we dated. And I also told

her, as best I could to someone that hasn’t experienced it, how amazing the mate bond is.

We talked of her expectations of being a Guardian. Anders expects that she will be Rik’s Guardian as I was his, but that has yet to be determined. She and Rik aren’t close. That is partly my fault. I think, but it’s also partly the need to keep her protected. I don’t let her go to large pack events, especially when there are other Alphas visiting. I have no intention of letting what happened to Lily, happen to Cara. So, we train

and talk about her mom most nights and she grows up before my eyes.

time. She had sparred with Anders on occasion and also her best friend Jason, but that was about

train and it was her excitement and Anders saying he would take over the

any reservations I had.

continued, I was even more surprised after

had become fewer but more consistent. It seems like she calls him on Sunday evenings before her week starts. She’ll tell him about her week, training and school and from what

about going out to the local club. She said Liam told her about it and she could go once she turned 17. It’s a dance club and I asked

make his move on

every week, Liam brought

her fated mate. I told him that, if he could be respectful of my daughter, I had no problems with him spending time with her. But I cautioned him that,

was

+IS BONUS

suddenly, Rik was in the picture. I’m not sure how he went his entire life not knowing my daughter, but once he realized who she was, he went all–in to win her over. I was thrilled and shocked when he got

If it turned out that Cara

gained by being her

Guardian and recovered like a champ. Even if I wanted her to take more time to heal, she showed me once again that she’s her mother’s daughter.

her kidnapping, and her quick healing. I agreed

his mate. I warned him that it was Cara’s decision who she took as a mate. I won’t have an Alpha pressuring