Filed to story: Cara Nelson The Guardian: Werewolf Book PDF Free
“I’ll see you in forty-five minutes.”
“Thank you, Cara.”
“Liam, I hope you know that even after everything, I still count you as one of my closest friends.”
I smile. Of course she does, she’s amazing like that. “See you soon.”
I shower and head downstairs after poking my head back in on Angel. Her eyes are closed, and her breathing is heavy.
I check on the options for dinner, ordering something for three now, knowing Cara may also be hungry. Right on time, I hear a knock at the front door of the packhouse. I open the door to her smiling face.
“Hello Liam.”
“Hey Cara. Come in.”
She steps past me into the foyer then turns opening her arms in invitation. I pull her into a hug. I had expected it to hurt, to feel the pain of the loss that I felt months ago. But there is none of that. There is only the familiar feeling of the care that I always had for this woman. She feels like family, not like a lost love.
I sniff her hair and realize her scent is different. I take her by the shoulders and push her back, smiling down at her. “Congratulations?” I ask, unsure if I’m supposed to know.
Her smile brightens the room. “Thank you! We’ve only just told the pack. My scent started changing and we didn’t really have a choice.” She tells me, all bubbly energy.
“Is it a boy or a girl?” I ask.
“We don’t know yet, but Rik is certain it’s a girl. He says she has my honey smell.”
I smile down at her. “I’ll take his word for it.”
Height wise, she’s not much taller than Angel, but in size, she’s a good two sizes larger, and Cara is ripped. She trains four hours a day every day. I once had the opportunity to train with her and it kicked my ass. To know that even ripped. she’s so much bigger than Angel, gives me hope that my girl will fill out.
“So, what is this about Liam? How can I help you?”
“I want you to meet someone. She came into my borders a couple of weeks ago, on her death bed. She’d been held hostage by vampires and will take some time to recover, so just know that going in.”
“Okay.” She draws out the word as we begin heading upstairs. “But why am I here?”
“She’s special Cara. I need to know if you get any feelings from her. I don’t know, maybe your Guardian senses will tell you something that I can’t figure out.”
She grabs hold of my arm and pulls me to a stop just as we reach the Alpha floor. “She’s your mate, isn’t she Liam?”
I turn to her. “She is, but she doesn’t know it yet. She’s very weak and her wolf is just slowly returning. She hasn’t recognized the mate bond.”
“Alright, so what am I looking for?” She asks me as we get closer to Angel’s door.”I’d rather not say anything until after you’ve met her. If I’m wrong, I don’t want to taint your interaction with her.”
When we walk in, I intentionally stand in front of Cara, not letting Angel see her at first. Angel is awake and sitting up in bed. “Hey Angel, I brought someone to see you. This is my friend Cara.”
I move out of the way and let Cara come in. The minute she sees Cara, Angel’s eyes flash to gold. “Artemis.” She whispers.
I look at Cara and see Artemis shining in her eyes. “Mother.” in Cara again?
After Liam leaves, I try listening to some of his music. It’s all very angry and loud. I only try a few before I give up. I don’t know how to find songs and I don’t want to do something I’m not supposed to do, so I set it aside and turn to the books. I read for a while before getting tired and moving to the bed to lay down. Dustin comes in while I am trying to get on the bed, and he helps me up.
“You know I’m going to be in trouble if something happens to you on my watch, right?” He asks me.
“Sorry, I was just getting tired and was ready to lay down.”
I sleep for a while then Dustin brings me food. I am starting to feel stronger, so I make sure to eat as much as I can. They are still giving me more food than I used to get in a week at the vampire coven, but maybe once Alessia is back to full strength, this won’t seem like a huge amount of food.
After lunch, I hear some noises outside and I go to sit by the window. I watch as the warriors train in one area behind the packhouse and mothers and pups play around the pool and playground that is in another area of the grounds. Everyone seems so happy. Maybe Liam is a good alpha as he has said he is. Although, I thought Alpha Peter was a good alpha, but mom and dad thought that me being a Guardian would change that.
‘I think Liam is a good Alpha, and I like Cyran. It was nice having him sleep with us last night.’
‘Alessia! How are you feeling?”
‘Stronger every day. I’ll have us back at full strength again soon.”
“Alessia, we need to leave here before Liam and Cyran realize what we are. I don’t want us forced into a mate bond.”
She’s quiet for a long time. ‘I don’t think they would force us. I want to stay.’
“What? Alessia, I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
‘Let’s see what happens, okay? Let’s not rush it. Didn’t Liam tell you there’s a bounty on our heads? It feels safer here than it would be running from vampires and hunters with nowhere to go.”
She has a point. I’m still thinking about this when I hear the door open. I turn without thinking and see Liam standing there. I see him stop when he notices Alessia in my eyes. I immediately pull her back.
*SKAYA
I wait to see what he will do but he continues as if he didn’t see anything Maybe he didn’t or maybe he doesn’t know what a Guardian’s eyes look like.
When he asks about dinner, I realize that I’ve been up for a while and I’m tired, so I want to rest first. He seems fine with that, so I lay down and fall asleep.
Not long after I wake, I hear Liam in the hallway, talking to someone, a female. I can feel Alessia standing up in my head. ‘Alessia, calm down, what’s wrong with you?’
She doesn’t answer. When Liam walks in, I don’t see anyone until he moves.
Alessia’s response is instantaneous. She pushes forward. “Artemis.”
What I don’t expect is the response from Cara, or actually, it’s Artemis that is responding. “Mother.”
Mother? What? The next thing I know, Artemis has pushed across the room and is hugging me, or Alessia.
‘Alessia, what’s going on?’
