**This book is a prequel to the Guardians Trilogy. However, while it starts before the first book in the Trilogy and can be read as a stand alone, it will span the timeframe of both Books 1 and 2. This book will contain spoilers and references discussed in the other books. It is recommended that you first read Book 1, The Broken Warrior’s Daughter, and Book 2, Alpha’s Guardian Angel before reading this book.I don’t know when I fell in love with Clint Nelson. For years, I thought of him as an egotistical man who believed he was the Goddess’s gift to women. He isn’t completely wrong. He is a gorgeous man, with wavy, dark brown hair and emerald green eyes that stand out like jewels on his tanned, chiseled face. His body looks more like it was carved from stone than muscle, and I would know, just like every other she-wolf in our pack, I’ve had a good look at what he's packing. He isn’t exactly shy and is definitely not self-conscious about the way he looks.If being the best friend of ou

I turned 18 over the weekend. I had really hoped to meet my mate on my actual birthday, but that didn’t happen. Anders and I had gone out both Friday and Saturday nights, hoping that I would find her. Since it didn’t happen, I had settled on the idea that Anders and I would have to travel around to find her. He turns 18 in a couple of months but he’s already feeling a pull to Calista Johns. He thinks she is his mate. He’s been pursuing her but she’s completely uninterested.It’s frustrating him because he’s never had to pursue a love interest. Women usually fall at our feet. It doesn’t even matter how old they are, we’ve both had women old enough to be our mother that have found their way into our beds.I found the entire situation hilarious until Monday morning, when I showed up at training and smelled the most delicious scent of orange blossoms and ginger. I followed the scent and found Lily Raines sparring with Lucas, Anders future Lead Warrior. He’s already decided that Lucas will

My name is Lily RainesI’m 17 years oldI’m 5 foot 6 inches tallI have brown hair and blue eyesI want to be a warrior when I graduateI will not sleep with you, so stop pursuing me.That’s what I read on the paper that she handed to me as she walked out of class. I read it again and then look at the place where she walked out. This is going to be harder than I thought.First of all, every time she looks at me, I get so lost in her blue eyes that I can’t even remember my name, much less what we were talking about. I’m guessing by now she thinks I’m an idiot.‘You are an idiot.’ My unhelpful wolf tells me.And now she thinks I just want to sleep with her. When she asked me why I’m suddenly pursuing her, I didn’t have a good reason. I don’t want to tell her that we’re mates. I obviously have some damage control to do before we get to that point. And while I was getting lost in the never-ending blue of her eyes, she apparently took my lack of response as me wanting to get in her pants.

I thought I had made some progress with Lily, only for it to all go down the drain when Jules showed up calling me Big Daddy. I never cared about the name before. It started all kinds of fun sex play in the past. But now, I’m trying to erase that memory from Lily’s mind and here it is, being rubbed in her face. Jules is so far beneath my ability that I don’t even have to pay attention to spar with her. Unfortunately for me, she’s more interested in finding a way for us to roll around on the ground together, rather than learning new techniques. After I pinned her to the ground for the second time, face in the dirt, I realized her intentions were not focused on sparring. As I leaned over her, pinning her to the ground, she lifted her hips and rubbed them against me. While I’m not attracted to her anymore, my entire focus and mind now on my mate, I can smell Lily’s scent from here, so the friction she provides causes me to have a reaction that she mistakes as a response for her. Jules

YES! Success! Lily finally agreed to go out with me, but now I need to convince Anders to let me spar with her and I have to tell him why Calista won’t go out with him. I’ve never hated my reputation as much as I do right now. I wait until I see Lily grab her clothes and walk into her house before jogging back to the packhouse. It’s dinner time and I divert up to my room to take a quick shower before heading down to the main dining hall where most of the pack house eats as well as many other pack members that come here after training. I find Anders sitting with his parents and the Beta family. Charles is Calvin’s son and has been training to be Anders Beta since I got my Guardian spirit at 10. He’ll make a good Beta for Anders. I grab some food and take a seat across from Anders, saying hello to everyone at the table. “So, how’d it go?” He asks me, referencing my escape from Jules. “Actually, it went well. Andra was out running, and it gave me an opportunity to finally get Lily to