Chapter 0149
So much has happened in the two years since Rik and | took over as Alpha and Luna of the Canyon Ridge Pack.
We found my mother’s wolf''s spirit. Or rather, she found us. She and | have be great friends and I’m so d to have her in
my life. The only thing that was better than finding Andra’s Guardian spirit, was the birth of our daughter. We named her Lily after
her grandmother, a strong and loving Guardian.
Rik has never let me live it down that he was right from the very beginning that we were having a girl. And, although I know he
wants a son to carry on and eventually take over the pack, he’s been scared of what that might mean for me.
My pregnancy and birth of Lily were not easy. | was pregnant during a time of great strife, war and loss. The pain of it almost
caused me to lose my precious daughter and both of us nearly died in childbirth. But Rik was there for both of us, and we
survived.
Lily is the apple of her father’s eye. He takes her everywhere, carrying her around on his shoulders. And she is definitely a
daddy''s girl. Even after she was born, unless she was nursing, she preferred Rik holding her to me.
Lacey and Chase’s little boy is exactly the same. It’s cute to see the dads having y dates and taking the kids to the park or to
get ice cream. They are both great fathers.
| was shocked at first that Lacey gave in to Chase, but when she had her birthday a month after mine and realized that he was
her mate, it all made sense. He, like Rik, had his birthday first and realized what she was to him. He pursued her relentlessly
until her birthday, and then everything fell into ce. They had their second child, a girl, a couple months ago.
Rik’s fear of losing me has kept him from wanting to have another baby. Artemis and | were ready a couple months after Lily’s
birth to try for another one, but he refused. The fear of losing me or worse, me and our child together was too much for him. But
the Moon Goddess has her own ns, and we don’t always get to choose when or how many children we will have.
I''m finishing a shower, putting on a bath robe instead of clothes, anticipating. Rik’s response to finding out we''re going to have
another child. | hope he’s ast happy as he was with Lily and wants to go peanut hunting again. That’s what | started calling it,
since he called Lily ‘Peanut until she was born. He and Kai would sniff my stomach every night beforeying their head next to
her and
telling her about their day.
As I''m walking out of the bathroom, towel drying my hair, Rik walks in with Lily in his arms. Rik’s eyes go dark as soon as he
sees me in only a bathrobe. My love and desire for this amazing man have only increased with time.
“Mommy, mommy. Guess what?” My daughter squirms until Rik puts her down and she runs over to me. | reach down and scoop
her up. “What?” | ask her as | take her over to the love seat sitting under the window in our room.
“Kai took for me a ride then Daddy showed me all the constations in the sky.” She mispronounces constetions.
“He did?” | ask acting excited looking at my mate who has a sheepish look on his face. | give him the barest of head shakes and
his grin just gets bigger.
| turn my attention back to my daughter. “Did you fall off Kai this time?” | ask her. “Nope, | held on tight like Daddy said.”
“Did Daddy show you the Dory constetion?” | ask and she nods her head in exaggerated excitement. “Yep! He showed me her
nose and her tail and her...” She turns and looks at Rik for help.
“Her dorsal fin” He fills in for her as he sits to take off his shoes. “Yes, that, mommy.”
“Wow. Daddy is really smart, isn’t he?” She nods her head in agreement again.
“Well guess what?” | ask my little girl.
“What?” She asks, bouncing up and down in myp.
“Mommy knows something that Daddy doesn’t know. If | tell you then you''ll know too, and you can share it with Daddy. Do you
want to know what it is?”
She nods her head. | lean down and whisper in her ear. “Tell Daddy that it’s time to go peanut hunting.”
She sits back and looks at me her brow furrowing, then looks at Rik.
“Why would Daddy want to go peanut hunting?” She asks, blowing the entire surprise. Rik’s head whips around to look at me
and now it’s my turn to grin at him.
Without looking away from my mate, | answer my daughter. “Because Daddy will be really happy to know that it’s time to go
peanut hunting.
| watch as Rik’s face breaks into my favorite megawatt smile.
“If you want to make Daddy happy, why don’t you tell him that you have my little
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brother in your tummy?”
My head whips back to look at my daughter. “What did you say?”
She''s looking at my stomach and she pats a spot on my right side, before looking at Rik. “Daddy, wouldn’t you be happier to
know that Mommy has my little
brother growing in her tummy instead of going peanut hunting?”
Rikes over to sit on the love seat with us, putting Lily in hisp. “Princess, why do you say Mommy has your little brother in
her tummy?”
“I can smell him. Can''t you?” She says, looking between us.
“What does he smell like?” | ask her.
“Like hot chocate.” She says, mispronouncing chocte.
Rik and | look at each other over her head. Then he sets her in myp on the left side and points to where she was patting my
stomach. “He’s right here?” He asks as Kai pushes forward.
My daughter takes his finger and points to where she thinks her brother is. Rik leans down and sniffs. He sniffs in a small circle
around the area and then pushes his nose into my stomach right where Lily told him. When he sits up, he’s looking incredulous.Property ? of N?velDrama.Org.
“She''s right. | can smell him, and he does smell like hot chocte.”
“See Daddy, | told you.”
| look at Rik. “Her sense of smell is stronger than yours? And she doesn’t even have her wolf yet?” | look back at my daughter
then at my mate. “What does it mean?”
He picks Lily up and holds her in his arms looking into her eyes and she puts both her hands on his cheeks. “I think it means we
have another Guardian in our midst.”
The end.
This series continues in book 2: Alpha’s Guardian Angel