A Beta's Haven by Carrie Ann Ryan

Author:Carrie Ann Ryan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy
Publisher: Fated Desires Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“Cookie?”

Edward Jamenson paused in the middle of the sentence he’d been trying to read and looked down at his two-year-old granddaughter.

Brie had her tiny fist full of half-eaten cookie, waving it in his direction. He smiled at the one pigtail still up on top of her head. The other one Pat had put in her hair that morning was long gone. Now a little tangle of brown hair seemed to be in its place.

He leaned down and nibbled on the edge of the sugar cookie. She’d left part of it clear from her mouth, so it wasn’t as damp as it could have been. With one last look at the texts he should have been reading, he pulled away from his desk and held out his arms.

Brie scrambled onto his lap and stuck her nose in his neck. He hugged her hard, that ache from not having babies this age of his own anymore coming and going quickly. He wasn’t as bad as Pat when it came to missing their children as babies, but he had his moments.

He kissed Brie’s cheek then moved so they were face to face. She had his eyes. The same eyes of her father. The same eyes of his father.

She was a Jamenson through and through, and Edward would not let anything happen to this little girl.

Nor would he let anything happen to any of his other grandchildren who seemed to be growing in number almost daily.

“You’re sweeter than the cookie, princess.” She put her free hand on his face, and he could hear the stubble from his beard scraping her hand. He held back a curse that he hadn’t shaved that morning like he usually did, but he’d been stressed.

Something was coming, something far worse than they’d been through so far, and he didn’t know how to fix it.

Hence the reason he was studying the ancient texts the elders had let him borrow. He needed to see if there was a way to take down a demon from hell.

Right now, though, he didn’t want to think about any of that. No, he wanted only to deal with the little ball of goodness and light in his arms.

Brie stared at him and tilted her head, a movement so like Jasper it made Edward blink. “You look sad, Grandpa.”

She kissed his nose, and his wolf, the strongest in the Redwood Pack and one of the most dominant in the entire country, bowed his head, the love for this little girl ignoring—at least for the moment—any hierarchy and power it held.

“I’m not sad now that you’re here.” He didn’t lie, not then. Brie and her cousins were the ones he was fighting for. He wanted to ensure their futures and would do anything to make that happen.

Jasper and Willow were at the cabin and had been for almost a day now since it was around noon. They would be coming home within the next day to do what they had to within the Pack, but for right then, Edward could feel, within their bonds, that they were at peace.

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