Chapter 369

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For several hours, I train with Angel and Cara, tapping into and manipulating each other’s power. Then Rik wants me to train physically. As we walk to Clint’s and Cara’s old house, he explains.

“You’ve found your Guardian strength and power, but you need the physical. strength in your human form. It will also help Maia for you to train both in human and wolf form. You probably remember that Clint had an entire training center set up for Cara.”

When we get there, I recognize the house. It has feelings of both happiness and sadness, loneliness and family. It’s a strange combination.

‘Clint lived here after losing Lily. While he had Cara and loved her, and Anders visited every week, he still felt the constant emptiness of losing his mate.‘ Maia explains to me.

“What is this?” Eli asks as we walk up and see an incredible training center.

“This is only the outdoor training equipment. There’s an entire indoor training center as well.” Cara says.

“Clint built it over the years to train Cara.” I say, getting the memories from Maia. I walk up, running my hands along the training equipment. “He worked on it every day while she was at school. It was how he was able to survive Lily’s death. It gave him a purpose.”

I turn and see a tear fall down Cara’s cheek. “I’m sorry, the memories…” I say.

“No, it’s okay. Like you said yesterday, it’s one thing to know something and another to have it confirmed. Dad was amazing at training me, and later the pack warriors as well.”

“I just wish he would have started training them earlier.” Anders says, walking outside from the house.

“Hey dad. We wanted to have Grace and Maia train today, if that’s alright.”

“Of course, as long as I can watch.”

“You live here now?” I asked him.

“We do, Cali and I.” He turns and looks at Cara. “She happens to have a batch of your favorite brownies coming out of the over in a few minutes.”

A huge smile spreads across Cara’s face. “I do have an insatiable appetite for

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brownies.” I notice Rik’s eyes darkening.

“Okay, let’s get started before this gets awkward.” Liam says. I notice that when Rik sets Cara down in a chair beside his father, his kiss seems exceptionally passionate. I don’t want to know what it is with them and brownies.

Liam explains the obstacle course, Cara jumping in to remind ine of the different ways the course is set up to knock you off your feet, forcing you to concentrate and maintain your balance.

“I find it’s more fun to train competitively, Grace. Do you have a preference who you train against?” Liam asks.

“I’m training with my mate.” Eli says before I can answer.

Liam looks at Rik. “Then I guess it’ll be you against me.” He says, rubbing his hands together, a gleam in his eye.

Rik laughs. “How about we all take turns against each other. Grace needs to train for longer than just the one time. That way we can all run it three times.”

“Grace, do you remember the course, or do you want Rik and Liam to run it first?” Cara asks me.

“I remember it, but Eli won’t know anything about it.”

“I’m good. Remember, I lived in the wild for nearly two decades. I’m used to managing unexpected things coming at me.” He says.

I shrug. “Okay. And if I remember, the goal is to not only get through the obstacles but to be the first to hit the stop button at the end?”

“Yep.” Everyone watching says in unison.

Eli and I line up. I turn to look at him, smirking. “You think you can take me, Alpha.”

His low growl answers me just before Anders shoots the start gun. In my memories, Clint was never able to run the course. He built it and worked out in

the sections meant for upper body workouts, but he never ran the obstacle course. It felt good to be able to run his course for him.

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