Raven's Guardian: The Gift

Raven’s Guardian is a steamy, sexually charged love story that leaves no detail unturned when it comes to their time together. It is a story about awakening love and commitment in a truly fictional paranormal world with its setting in the Cherokee world of North Carolina.

Lucian made his way to the Cherokee High School Field House where he knew he would find Raven with the rest of the Cherokee High School Wolverine’s Cheerleading Squad; they should be about finished with practice for the day and the football season unless they made the playoffs. He leaned up against the metal cross link fence that surrounded the football field to wait; he was admittedly a little anxious about seeing Raven walk out. Even though they still maintained their steamy physical relationship, they had some issues regarding other parts of their relationship to take care of. Lucian being Wolf and Raven not, was starting to create those issues. Raven was determined that Lucian should ‘change’ her so they could go through the ‘Bonding Ceremony’ of the Wolves and become one. She felt it was the only way she would truly be a full part of his life.
Lucian and his Tsa-la-gi Ani'-Wah' Ya (Cherokee Wolf Clan) had shut her out and not included her in the simple fact that Lucian had almost lost his life in Charlotte battling the Renegade Pack Leader, Marcus Raintree. It had cut her to the core and hurt her like she had never been hurt before. She couldn’t even compare it to the death of her Father or the situation her brother was in; it was so much more. Raven was brought into this world by the blessings of the Spirit Gods and the Fates to be Lucian Kane’s True Mate; the True Mate of the Cherokee Wolf Pack’s Alpha Leader, one of the strongest and most respected Pack Masters in the entire Southeastern portion of the United States; she was supposed to be his Luna and the Female Alpha Leader. Somehow her status was either ignored or overlooked.
Raven and her lifetime ‘besties’, Jill Saunders and Ivey Walters, walked out of the field house together dressed identically, in their practice sweats and t-shirts. Ivey noticed Lucian standing against the fence first and pointed him out to Raven, whom had already picked up the earthy, musky scent of the man she was angry with at the moment but also head over heels in love with and headed his way leaving her ‘besties’ to fall behind.
Lucian was leaning against the fence with one leg bent at the knee; his foot resting on the fence. He wore his long black hair loose, topped off with a blue baseball cap worn backwards. The cap bore the name of the establishment he owns, Aniwahya Bar and Grille. He also wore a red t-shirt, his traditional faded, stonewashed, ripped jeans and white tennis shoes. His right wrist was graced with the leather band that he never removed. It was dressed in turquoise and silver that came from his E-`tsi’s (Mother’s) jewelry after her accidental death from fire; his extremely buff arms were crossed over his equally buff chest.
Raven couldn’t help but respond physically to the man leaning against the fence. He was beautiful and possessed an essence of sexuality that oozed from every single pore of his body. He was indeed a ‘bad-boy’ with a very feral way about him and wore the look. If her Mother had lived, he was probably the type of man she would have warned Raven to stay away from even though her Mother and Lucian had been best friends.