The Broken Warrior's Daughter

Telling my story again was difficult. Knowing it would be chronicled for eternity made it even harder. While | wasn’t pleased that Liam needed me in his lap, | was glad to be there, wrapped in his arms while | told my story.

I'm not sure why Ailduin is having the effect on Liam that he is. He has never shown any jealousy with Clint. But, with Ailduin, he’s acting like I’m going to leave him, to choose Ailduin over him.

When he pulls me into our room, | know he needs to reconnect. | don’t want him to ever feel like anyone can take his place in my heart, my soul or my life. There is no one else but him. Those words we say to each other, ‘you and me’, those words are everything.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

As soon as he closes the door, | pull him into my arms. His buries his head in my neck. “Liam.” “| can’t lose you. Maybe you don’t feel it, but he feels something, and | can’t lose you.”

| pull back, taking his face in my hands. “You won't, not ever. Don’t you feel it?”

He won't look me in the eye. I’ve never seen my mate look so vulnerable as he does right now. “Feel what?”

| decide to try something. If | can push my aura out, maybe | can push this feeling of complete and total love out to my mate. If he’s so caught up in his own head that he can’t feel it through the bond, then maybe | can push it on him. | take a moment, collecting myself, letting myself feel my love for Liam, my trust, my admiration for this man and then | push it at him. | wrap it around him, enveloping him in a bubble of my love.

His quick intake of breath tells me that it's working. “That’s what | feel for you Liam. No one else. No one can ever take your place. You are the other half of my soul. You brought me back from a place where | never thought I’d be happy again.”

He buries his face into my neck again, lifting me up and moving us to the sitting area in the room. | keep the emotions wrapped around us as | continue. “I know that we’ve both had so much loss in our lives. | know that the people that should have been there to love you weren't. But I’m not going anywhere. I’m not going to leave you Liam.”

+15 BONOS He pulls back, looking at me with tears in his eyes. “I can’t lose you.” “And you never will. You are mine and | am yours. I’m not going anywhere.”

His kiss starts soft, tender, but quickly turns into something needy, a desire to reconnect and reaffirm our connection and love. He moves us to the bed,

stripping our clothes off and burying himself inside me. | can only hold on to him and his

chants of ‘mine get louder and stronger as he pushes me over the crest again and again, until finally, as I’m on the verge of yet another orgasm, he growls it loudly and sinks his canines into my mating mark. My body’s response is instantaneous, my orgasm so strong, | see stars and feel the blackness closing in on me, pulling me under.

When | wake, I’m laying on his chest. He has one hand in my hair, rubbing my scalp, the other wrapped tightly around me. | can see from the window that it’s now dark out. | look up at him. “What time is it?”

“It's late. Are you okay?” | take a quick inventory. | feel great. “Yes, | feel wonderful.” | sit up on my elbow. “But what about you, Liam? How are you feeling?”

He leans up and kisses my nose. “I’m better. I’m sorry about that. | think maybe my emotions were in such turmoil that | knocked you out.”

| smirk up at him. “TKO by orgasm is my kind of defeat. But seriously, are you okay? Are we okay?”

He takes his hand, running it across my cheek. “We're perfect. As long as you’re with me, | can do and face anything.”

“Good, because I’m starving. Go face whoever you need to and get us something to eat while | shower.” His chest rumbling and body shaking with his laughter is music to my ears. “Yes, my little angel, let me feed you.”

As | go to get off the bed, he smacks my ass, hard enough to leave a handprint. | turn around and give him a soft growl. | watch as his eyes darken before | head to the shower. | take my time, knowing he'll be rushing to figure out food and getting back to me to finish what he started.

I'm not disappointed.

+15 BONOS

The next morning, we all meet at breakfast. Ailduin has a plan for the day and has several tests that he wants to complete. Most of them center around me and Cara, but some include Clint as well to judge which grigts are strengthening because of the reincarnation and which may just be gifts that she and | have developed over time or with her being the first ever Guardian born.