The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0118 

I turn and see Rik. He hasn’t seen me, but I see his nose go in the air and he starts sniffing. I duck behind a large plant, waiting to see if he’ll sniff me out. ‘Yes, let him hunt us.‘ Artemis snickers in my head. 

I’m peeking around the planter trying to find him, when he grabs me from behind. “Gotcha.” He says, nuzzling my ear. 

I giggle turning in his arms and wrapping mine around his neck. “Artemis thought it would be fun to hide from you. 

“Oh believe me, Kai was all kinds of ready to hunt you.” He smiles before kissing me. “What are you doing here?” 

“I’m getting flowers for my mother. What are you doing here?” 

He smiles and takes my hand, heading over to where Dorothy is finishing with my bouquet. “I’m picking up the flowers I ordered yesterday for your mother.” 

I look at him out of the corner of my eye. “You mean when you were here getting my tulips?” 

He turns and smiles at me. “Exactly.” 

“Do these flowers have any special meaning I should know about?” I ask. 

“Nope. There is only one person that I get flowers for based solely off their meaning.” He reaches down and kisses my nose. 

“Perfect love?” I ask. 

“Yes, you are.” He says smiling before turning to Dorothy. 

“Good afternoon, Dorothy.” 

“Oh, good afternoon Alpha. Give me one minute to finish with our future Lu….. erm, our future Guardian’s flowers and I’ll get yours.” 

“No problem Dorothy. I was headed over to pick up this beautiful woman before going to Lily Nelson’s memorial, so now I’m saved a trip.” 

“I have my car outside Rík, I’ll have to drive it home.” 

He takes my hand. “I’ll have someone come by and get it for you. Unless you need to get home for another reason?” 

I look down at myself. I had planned to do another once over on my appearance, but that seems silly since Rik is standing here now and has already seen me. “No,