Fate Knows Best by Alanea Alder

Author:Alanea Alder [Alder, Alanea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Vampires
Goodreads: 17882192
Publisher: Siren Bookstrand
Published: 2013-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Rebecca was moving around gingerly but was reverberating in her seat the next morning as Aleks drove them home. She felt no worse than when she overdid it on the treadmill, but Aleks was taking no chances. He had carried her around all morning after getting checked out of the clinic. They had swung by to get her stuff from Liam’s. She had asked Liam to babysit Sebastian until she was settled at the ranch. She was still wrapping her mind around the word “home,” but she liked the idea of it. The drive was relaxing. She and Aleks had come a long way in a short amount of time. She looked over to where he sat grinning as he drove. She turned her head to look out the window at the dense forest on both sides of the road. She decided in the spring when everything was turning green again she would go hiking. Right now the trees were bare and the snow made the forest seem like a winter wonderland.

She still had her face pressed to the window when they drove through an opened gate. The gate itself looked like black wrought iron. The wall that stretched forth on either side of the gate looked to be stones stacked neatly and compactly together. Both stood nearly ten feet high.

As they drove past the gate, Rebecca turned in the passenger seat. The wall extended all the way to the tree line.

“How far does the wall go?” she asked. Aleks smiled.

“It surrounds the entire property,” he said.

“That is a pretty big wall,” she said.

“It took nearly eight generations of Arkadion men to put up the wall around the property. Each generation after that has chosen some other way to make sure the land is secure. My brothers and I have installed motion detectors and a monitoring station in the main house as our contribution. There are six other Arkadia sister sites across the country. After we take over from Ma and Pa, if there is a position open to take care of a town, one of my brothers will go fill it. Otherwise the towns are led by our uncles and cousins. The main house is just ahead,” he said, pointing to the huge two story log cabin ahead. It reminded her of the ski lodge she had stayed in her one and only time trying to ski. He maneuvered the car past it.

“My cabin is off to the right. It’s nearby without being underfoot. When my parents retire they will move in here and I will take over the main house. My brothers are spread out on the property. I like knowing that they are close by. None of us like the idea of being separated.” He looked over and smiled.

“So there are more than the seven of you?” she asked. Aleks chuckled.

“Counting the first cousins there are. In this generation there are twenty of us,” he replied and her eyes went wide.

“That’s a lot of bears,” she said.

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