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“Six? But you said mine only had four.” Dad says.
“That is correct. I also said that your line has strength. A strength that makes you stronger than an Alpha. Bellona’s line gave the Guardian the strength of an Alpha. Therefore, that line has died and reincarnated more frequently than Aloysius’s line.”
“How many times?” My father asks.
“To my knowledge, there are eleven generations to Bellona’s line, while there are only seven in yours.”
He turns back to me. “Now, to your question. No, I do not think your birth has eliminated her Guardian line. I think something has happened to the wolf carrying her line. Either that or she is very good at hiding. If I had to guess, I’d say she ran from her pack and has been hiding since she found out she’s a
Guardian. She could even be living among the humans.”
“However, I have been trying to find her for years. I have sent out my best trackers. There was a time when I thought I had found her, but they lost the scent and have never been able to find it again.” 2
He looks at all of us sheepishly. “I confess, the Bellona line is the one that my mate was connected to. I have wanted to be close to the Guardian that once inhabited my mate, so believe me when I say that I have tried very hard to find her, with no success.”
“But you believe her Guardian line is still alive because you think you found her scent at one point and no other Guardian has surfaced?” Anders asks.
“Yes.” He pauses. “I do think that when she is found, she will recognize both of you, not just as Guardians but as a previous mate and quite possibly, as her daughter. Not past tense, but current tense. The Guardian spirit continues, and there has never before been a Guardian born from another Guardian. So, I believe that she may very well continue to think of you has her daughter.” Ailduin says looking at me.
“Even if she’s younger than I am?” I ask, because that would be weird.
“The human side may be younger, the Guardian side is much, much older. The wolf will most likely recognize Artemis as her daughter, not you, Cara, as her daughter.”
“Why do you think that I am the first Guardian born? Why now?”
Ailduin looks at me for a long moment before responding. “I have a couple of ideas for possible reasons why you have been born after so many years. First, this was one of the few times that there was a male Guardian alive to even have the possibility of mating with another Guardian. Second, your Alphas have proven themselves to be very different than the Alphas in the past and allowed your parents to find their true mates. I believe that the forced mate bond may have created an inability for a Guardian to reproduce a Guardian. Having a true mate bond may have opened the possibility of reproducing a Guardian.”
“The last possibility,” he continues, “is one that I hope is incorrect.” He takes a moment and looks at all of us. “It is possible that your Moon Goddess feels there is a need for more than two Guardians and has allowed the creation of a third. If that is the case, then I believe there is a war in your future.”
Rik and Anders look at each other. I can see on their faces that neither knows anything about a war or even a battle that is coming.
“I will ask around to see if any of our allies have heard anything.” Anders replies. “However, it is also possible that all three of your theories are correct.”
Food was brought in throughout the day as we talked and read through the chronicles of the past. I didn’t learn anything new about Andra’s wolf spirit, only learned about the packs she had lived in and the fighting that had occurred over time. It was interesting to learn that the Guardians had been in several battles at the same time but never seemed to connect.
When my eyes got tired, I told everyone that I was going to bed. Rik got up to walk me to my room. He kissed me goodnight before he left. My dreams were filled with scenarios of my mother’s wolf, lost and alone, looking for me and Artemis
After I dropped Cara off at her room, I went to speak to my father. He is as concerned as I am about the potential for a coming war that Ailduin referenced. We will have to meet with our allies and determine if there is anything we have overlooked. While it is possible that this is the first time that two Guardians have actually been fated mates, as werewolves, we are a violent species, constantly fighting for power, land, strength. It makes sense that the Moon Goddess knew that a war was coming and was preparing us for it.
The next morning at breakfast, we begin making preparations to head home when Clint surprises us all. “Ailduin has invited me to stay and I’m going to take him up on his offer.”
“What do you mean? For how long?” Cara asked.
“He would like to chronicle the lives of your mother and I, or more specifically, Andra and Donovan. I have decided to stay and help to put that information into history. Your mother deserved that. She deserved to be recognized for what she did.”
“As do you.” My father chimes in. I had noticed that while Clint was speaking Ailduin was watching my father. Did he still think my father would deny Clint staying here? I guess given his history, he would. But I know my father. He loves Clint like a brother and Cara like a daughter. He will treat them as family, not as a commodity to hold on to for his own gain. My father is an honorable man.
My father turns to Ailduin. “If Clint becomes too humble, let me know, I’ll tell you the real story of what he did.” Ailduin nods.
Clint rolls his wheelchair over to Cara. “You’re nearly an adult and I know you can take care of yourself, but Anders will be checking in on you.” He looks over at me. “And I know Rik will be looking after you as well.” I nod at him. Of course I will. I won’t let anything happen to my mate.
“How long will you be gone?” She asks him. I can hear her voice trembling a little.
“As long as it takes, but I will definitely be home for your birthday. I expect you to continue to train, go to school and make good grades.”
“Of course dad.” She hugs him and we grab our bags, ready to leave. We thank Ailduin, my father reiterating that we would like to rebuild our alliance. I think this weekend has gone a long way towards getting there.
Since Clint drove to the fae land, we will have to run home. It’s not a big deal except that we have our bags. Ailduin has a guard drive us to the old, rickety looking gate that we entered through. Once we pass through the gate, the glamor returns and it looks like a forest filled with trees surrounded by a fence.
We shift and begin our journey. I’m pleasantly surprised that Artemis is able to easily keep up with us during the long trek home. She seems to be back at full strength. We howl our arrival just before crossing the borders and head straight to the pack house. My father disappears and I don’t expect to see him or my mother again for the rest of the night. We’ve arrived in time for lunch and as we are getting dressed, I hear Cara’s stomach growl.
“Let’s eat, then we can head over to your house. Or would you rather stay here while your father is gone?” I ask her.
She looks around the pack house. “I think I’d rather stay at my house, if you don’t mind.”
“I don’t mind, but I’m going to tell you. I don’t like you being there alone, so I’ll be staying with you.” Her beautiful smile draws me in and I wrap my arms around her waist.
“Is that code for you plan on working your way into my bed Alpha?”
I kiss her nose. “Nope. I know you’re waiting for your mate and I will respect that. Now, if you choose to spend the night with me on the couch…” I smile at her before pulling her into the dining hall.
We have lunch with some wolves that are in the packhouse for the afternoon before heading to her house. I grabbed my school work before leaving and a change of clothes in preparation for staying the night.
Over the course of the next month, we fall into a pattern. We mostly stayed at her house, and while we never crossed her line, we took advantage of our time to explore each other’s bodies, learning what we like, what makes the other come. undone. It was a much more intimate time than I could have ever imagined. There was something about sex not being an option that almost made it more intimate. We touched and tasted every part of each other. We became intimately familiar with the other’s body. And let me tell you, my girl loves her brownies, and I don’t mean the kind my mother makes. Holy hell, the things that girl can do with her mouth.
It became common for us to be seen together everywhere. We went to training twice a day as usual. Now that Artemis was back at full strength, our sparring was even. She could pin me as often as I could pin her. We were always looking for new ways to take each other down. It was fun and exciting.
We did our homework together every day and I began to have Cara sit in on my meetings with my father, learning about the pack issues. She even started to take on some of the role of the Luna, although she didn’t realize that’s what she was doing. She is just a natural at it. She is so perfect.
And I made sure to take her on at least one date a week. Somewhere different every time. It wasn’t so much that we didn’t have alone time, it was more to show her how special she is to me and expose her to new things.
One night, after having dinner at the pack house, we raced home in our wolf form. Artemis and Kai had also become very close and spent a lot of time together, either traveling back and forth from the Nelson home to the packhouse or on the weekends, we would shift and let them run together.
When we arrived at the forest line surrounding her house, we shifted as we usually did. We began walking to her house when I caught the scent. She recognized it at the same time I did. I growled, but cut it off quickly. I had agreed to this, and I had to let it play out. We are only a couple of weeks away from Cara’s birthday and the decision is hers, but I can only hope that she chooses me. And honestly, it has been so long since we’ve seen him, that I had almost forgotten that he was even pursuing Cara.
“Liam.” She says as she starts walking toward him. Kai pushes forward and snarls, grabbing her and pushing her behind me as I toss her a t-shirt. I may have agreed to let them spend time together, but I didn’t agree to it being with Cara naked.
He stands from where he had been sitting on the back porch, presumably waiting for us. He must smell my scent all around the house. I’ve been here every day for a month.
Before she can walk away, I take her hand. “I’m going to go.” She starts shaking her head immediately.
“No, you can stay.”