Filed to story: Cara Nelson The Guardian: Werewolf Book PDF Free
“Well, Luna, you are already healing. It’s a good thing you have that immunity, or that could have been a lot worse.”
“Let’s go around and talk to people. Sirona, I want you to come along as well, in case anyone needs medical treatment.” Grace says, before turning to me. “How many can we take back today?”
I look back at our vans. “Forty to fifty. We’ll have to triage and take the ones that most need assistance, the elderly and those with young pups.”
We spend the rest of the day deciding who will go to Safe Haven today. Several pack members are malnourished. The omegas seem the most impacted, which is not uncommon. We load up the ones that need medical attention first and send them back with Sirona. The second and third vans take groups of elderly that look frail and starved and young pups that need food and baby supplies. I send Noah and Anders back with those vans. Anders was here to assist with the challenge and while I appreciate his assistance, he has his own work to do.
Grace and I plan to stay overnight in order to allow a couple more individuals to go to our pack. with the expectation that our teams will be sending the vans back again tomorrow. After getting everyone settled for the night or sent back to Safe Haven, we set out to see what is still salvageable from the packhouse.
The kitchen has been demolished. The refrigerator and freezers ruined causing food to spoil. I send out some of our warriors to hunt and they bring back a couple of deer. We start a fire and with the help of some pack members, we’re able to at least have some meat for dinner. Grace and I wait until the pack has eaten their fill before eating. They need it more than we do. Tomorrow when our vans arrive, they will be bringing food and clothing for our new pack members.
That night, we go through the Alpha’s room and offices. We find stashes of money, hordes of food that we prepare to set out tomorrow and the files of the pack members. All of that will have to come back with us to go through as we have time.
“There must be over $100,000 stuffed in different places. What was he doing? Why wouldn’t he use this to help his pack? It makes no sense.”
“Baby, your father wasn’t himself. I don’t know how long he was this way, or if he always was. but at least now, we can correct his wrongs.”
It’s early morning before I find some bedding that I lay on the floor and try to create a place for us to rest for a few hours. “Grace, come lay down. We need some sleep before another long day tomorrow.”
Grace comes and curls up against me, laying her head on my chest. “Is there anything here that you want to take with us?” I ask her, rubbing her shoulders and back.
“No. There is nothing here for me. Nothing of my mother or me.”
She sighs heavily. “Will we always be working this hard? Always taking on so much at one time? It feels like the mountain we are climbing is never-ending.”
I kiss the top of her head. “No, I don’t think so. We’ve overcome so much already. Look at what we’ve done, baby. We’ve created a new pack. Our pack members are happy and healthy which hasn’t always been their life. We are building homes and businesses so our pack can thrive. We’re helping our pack members find their mates, so they can start families and have the lives they’ve always wanted. Does it sometimes look different than what I expected? Definitely. I would never have thought sprites would be a part of my life or my pack. Did I expect that we would acquire a second pack within months of confirming our own pack? No, but here we are.”
I pull her chin up so she’s looking at me. “But we can do anything together. We ARE doing all of
??5 BONOS this together. We aren’t just making a better life for ourselves, we’re making a better life for our pack, and our future pups. It’s hard now, but it will be so worth it in the end. And with you by my side, I know we can never fail.”
I kiss her nose as she smiles up at me. “How did you get to be so smart?”
I smirk down at her. “Well, according to my beautiful mate, I’m old. And, with age, comes knowledge.”
And my sweet mate bursts out laughing just as I’d hoped she would.
Cooper Author
Do you love these moments between Grace and Eli as much as I do?
?
US KAKA
The next morning, I wake up stiff and sore. Not only did I get stabbed yesterday, bat we only got a few hours of sleep with a couple of blankets to soften the hard floor. Thankfully, my mate let me curl up against him to stay warm. His scent and the mate bond helping me to heal overnight.
When we go out to share the food we found last night, I can tell that some of the pack members have left, most notably, my father’s Beta. I’m not upset about losing some members. Anyone who leaves now is saving me from having a battle later in our pack. If they can’t agree to having Ell and I as their Alphas, then they need to find someplace else to live. And my father’s Beta knew what my father was doing to me and my mother all those years ago, and he did nothing. Anyone that can live with that, won’t last in my pack.
As the pack is eating. Noah returns with the caravan, ready to take another group back to our pack. We’ve already established the plan for today and as much as possible, the vans will be making two trips. It will make for a long day, but at least everyone will be fed and sleep in a warm bed tonight.
We start packing up the vans, helping families pack up their belongings. Any furniture that they want will have to wait. Eli ordered a moving truck, but it won’t be here until later today. He and I agreed that we’d take any salvageable furniture or equipment and hand it off to Jeremy to see what he could do with it.
We send a couple bags of money back with Noah in the first run, his eyebrows raise when he realizes what he was carrying. “There’s more, but let’s break it into smaller amounts, just in case something happens.”
By 9am, the first group of vans are packed and on their way back to Safe Haven. By noon, the moving truck arrives, and we begin packing up the furniture from all our new pack members. By 4pm, the vans return. We’re still packing the last of the furniture and Eli and I wait until everyone has found a space in a van and all the furniture is packed up before we find space in the last van headed back home.
It’s been an exhausting day, and only a few minutes into the drive, I fall asleep. Eli gently shakes me as we pass into our territory. When we pull up, I see that Carlos and Amber have everything under control. They are directing people to the pack members that will be housing them temporarily.
“I want to check on the people that came back with Sirona yesterday. I’ll catch up to you later. I still need to check in with Cammy to make sure we have enough food and don’t need to go shopping tomorrow.”
? +15 BONOS
Eli reaches down and kisses me. “I’ll double check to make sure everyone is settled in the packhouse and there aren’t any issues with the housing arrangements.”
When I arrive at the pack hospital, I can see that there are several rooms still in use. I search for Sirona, finding her talking to one of the medical students. She looks up when she hears me.
“Luna, welcome back. I wasn’t sure you’d be back tonight.”
“Thank you, it’s good to be home. What’s the status of our wounded.”
She begins taking me room by room. Several are young that are malnourished and dehydrated. They should be released in another day or two. The same for a couple of elderly that just need a few days with food and fluids to recover. In the last room is Paisley.
“Your father didn’t accept her rejection, so while she rejected him, his death has made her weak.”
“What about her son?”
“Levi is fine. We’re keeping him close and letting her see him any time she wants. She just can’t hold him for very long. He’s an active toddler and I wasn’t sure she’d survive the trip back. But she’s strong and she has a will to live.”
Today’s Bonus Offer
I walk into the room, closing the door behind me. I go sit in the chair beside her bed, taking her hand.
“Hello, Luna.” She says and her voice is hoarse.
“Paisley. I spoke to Gamma Sirona. Is there anything I can do?”
“No. I was hoping that it wouldn’t be this bad, but.
I reach out, touching her arm. “You can take as long as you need. I’ll help you in any way you need. Everyone in the pack will. That’s the kind of pack this is, we help each other.”
“Thank you, Luna.” She’s quiet for a moment, then looks up at me. “You’ve seen the mate bond on both sides. What you have with Alpha Eli makes it seem like the mate bond is special, good, what we’re told as pups that it’s supposed to be. What I had with your father was not that. He wasn’t a bad mate, but he wasn’t a good mate either. But now, knowing what he did to your mother and to you, I don’t know that I could ever trust the mate bond again.”