My girls are the highlight of my life. There is nothing better than having the two of them in my arms
together. Some nights, like tonight, Ie into our room and my mate and my daughter are on the floor
ying together.
They are ying with blocks and building what looks like a packhouse and packnds. “There’s my
girls.” I say as I walk in.
“Daddy!” My baby girl gets up and runs over. I scoop her up and throw her in the air, listening to her
squeal. I catch her and pull her against me, kissing her face and neck while Donovan purrs against her.
“Daddy, stop!” She says in a fit of giggles.
Lilyes over and wraps her arms around me, hugging me. “Wee home, love.”
I hold Cara in one arm while Donovan continues to purr at her and take my mate in the other, kissing
her until I hear her moaning softly. “I missed you.” I tell her, finally letting here up for air.
She looks up at me, her eyes filled with love. “I missed you, too.”
I lean in, nuzzling her ear. “Maybe you can show me how much you missed me after we put a certain
someone to bed.”
She reaches up, nipping at my ear. “Deal!”
With that promise. I turn back to my daughter. “So, what are you building over here.”
daughter shows me her packhouse, having miniatures of Andra and Donovan. I notice there is now a
baby wolf too. “Who is this?”
“That’s my wolf, daddy.”
“It is? What’s her name? Did you introduce her to Andra and Donovan?”
She nods her head, and we spend the rest of the night ying wolfpack. These quiet moments of
yfulness together with my girls are the best. It helps me ovee the frustration of the attacks that
seem to being more and more frequently.
For Cara’s fourth birthday, I want to take them back to the ind that I took Lily for our 4th anniversary.
When I go to see Anders, he is looking over the patrol reports, frowning.
“That bad, huh?”
“It’s never ending. I swear, if I’d known it was going to be like this, I’d have either had Rik sooner or
waited even longer. Having a mate and a pup who is an heir makes all of this more worrisome.” He
says as he tosses his reports across his desk.
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“So, I guess this is a bad time to ask for a long weekend away?”
He looks up at me. “What did you have in mind?”
I tell him and he looks at me for a moment. “How long?”
“Five days.”
He blows out a breath. “Yeah. Sure, go and enjoy your weekend with your family.”
I frown. Anders his never acted like he’s concerned about me being away before.
“What’s up?”
“There are several packs making a move against us and Shadow Falls. I know you work hard for me,
but —never mind. Of course, take your family and have a good time.”
“No. I would never leave you during a time of battle or war, Anders. Even if I could, which I can’t being
your Guardian, I wouldn’t.” I tell him. “I’ll wait and see how things stand for our anniversary, that’s a
couple months away still.”
Both mine and Lily’s birthdays pass, and our anniversary and the attacks keeping. Lily and I are
an
amazing fighting machine. Together, no one can defeat us. We can take on 12 wolves between the two
of
us when we are together. We know we can count on the other to protect our back and so we can focus
on the fight in front of us. Anders and Charles are both powerful as are our warriors, but it’s me and Lily
that are the tipping point in many of our battles.
There is loss. While we decimate the packs that attack us, in every battle we lose some warriors. Then,
sometimes, we lose their mates as well. I’ve never quite figured out why sometimes the mates can
survive and sometimes they can’t.
Cara’s fifth birthdayes along. This time, I already know we can’t go away from a long period of
time.
but I need to take my girls away from all the fighting, at least for a couple of days.
I get Anders to agree to a weekend, and we go into the mountains a couple of hours away, Andra and
Donovan run with Cara on their backs, ying tag and catch. Caraughs and whoever she’s riding on
always miraculously wins.
It’s a wonderful weekend. Weugh and y with Cara. I find a mountain peak that is high enough to
still have snow and Andra and Donovan run up the mountain so we can have a snowball fight. Cara
wins, of
course. And while we have a perfect time while we are there, it’s over too soon.
When we return, we’re almost immediately back into fighting. Anders begins sending me to Shadow
Falls
and leaving Lily behind to ensure that Calista and Rik are safe. I don’t like being away from Lily.
Sometimes it’s necessary, but we don’t fight as well apart and I’m always a bit distracted, trying to keep
my mind link open to her to make sure that she is okay.
One night after Donovan takes Cara out for a run, wee back to our room and Lily seems a bit off.
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“Lily bud, are you okay?”
She turns and smiles at me. “I want to go away for a day, just you and me.”
I walk over to her, pulling her against me. “I like the sound of that. When?”
“Tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow? Baby, I don’t know if we can get away that quickly.”
“Please, Clint. I really want us to go away. Just us. Just for one night. Please.”
“Okay baby, let me talk to Anders.
I turn to go find Anders, but she pulls me back. “I love you so much, do you know that? Do you know
how
much I love you?”
“Baby, what’s going on?” I cup her cheek. Something is definitely wrong.
“I just need some time with you. Things have been crazy and.and I want time with my mate. I need this.
I really need this. I need you.”
“Okay baby. I’ll let Anders know. Do you think Calista will watch Cara for us?”
“I’ll go talk to her while you talk to Anders.”
“Okay Lily bud.”
When I go to Anders, he originally denies me. But I told him something was up with Lily and he gave in.
The next day, we went away, just my Lily bud and me.
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