Filed To Story: In the Shadow of the Past Luna (Lily & James)
“Do not make me mind-link your father, James.”
I check my watch. I really do not have time for this. “What do you want from me?”
“Tell me where you are going.”
“Hawaii.”
“HAWAII? WHY?”
“I think a little bit of sun would be good for me. I want to take my mind off of things here, and heal.”
Suddenly, I hear a screeching voice come down the stairs. “I LOVE HAWAII Shella shouts excitedly.
I groan. Of all the awful timing.
My mother smirks. “Well, then. Isn’t that convenient. Shella, why don’t you pack a suitcase. You can go to Hawaii with James. I will mind-link Joey and Alden; they can go with you as well.”
“What? Joey and Aiden are the worst security guards we have, Mother.”
“So they will not be missed,”
my mother responds triumphantly. “Go on, Sheila, Be quick about it. It looks like James is in a hurry.”
Sheila saunters off before I can figure out what to say to stop this.
“We cannot bring Shella, James,”
Luke links me. “You know how much Lily hates her.”
“What do you want me to do?”
I link him back. “If I do not bring her, we may not be able to get out of here at all.”
“James, please do not do this. We cannot risk messing things up with Lily again. You did not listen to me before; please listen to me now.”
“Relax, Luke. We have a connecting flight in Honolulu. We will find a way to lose them there. Besides, we can trust Sheila.”
“No, we can’t,”
Luke responds.
“Sheila has kept our confidences for years.”
“But Lily hates her.”
“Lily hates a lot of people right now, including me. I do not know that her opinion needs to be the one to control our decisions.”
“It should be if we want to get her back!”
“Who said we want to get her back? We are just going to talk to her.”
I feel Luke recoil. “If you do not want her back, why are you going?”
“We need to talk to her. She may have answers to a lot of our questions.”
“You are an idiot, James. She is our mate. You punished her for years for something that you now know that she did not do. How can you say that you do not want to try to get her back?”
Because I do not think she will ever accept me after all that happened, I think to myself. I do not want to get my hopes up and have her reject me again.
Thankfully, Luke is not listening to my thoughts.
“We will talk about it later, okay, Luke? For now, let’s just concentrate on how we make sure to lose Sheila and the guards in Honolulu.”
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Luke groans and then retreats to the back of my head. He is not happy, but at least he is not cursing or threatening to leave me again.
Twenty minutes later, we are finally headed to the airport. I am worried that we will miss the flight, but Joey agrees to floor the gas to make up a little bit of time while I book additional airline tickets from my phone during the drive. Meanwhile, Sheila leans her head on my shoulder, acting as though she is my doting girlfriend. I want to push her away, but I do not. I decide that I will put up with her for now.
I just hope that I am not making another huge mistake.
(Joey POV)
I was working my normal shift providing security to the packhouse when I received an urgent message from my supervisor. I was told that Luna Jane had given an order that Aiden and I accompany alpha heir
James to Hawaii. We were expected to be ready in 15 minutes.
In normal circumstances, this would be a dream assignment. Unfortunately, I am painfully aware that these are not normal circumstances.
In fact, nothing has been normal in our pack since the last memorial event that was held for Stephanie. My mate would say that nothing has been normal in our pack for a lot longer than that, but I had no idea what was going on and how bad things were until that day. I am ashamed to admit that, before that last memorial, I was very much part of the problems… or at least the problems involving Lily.
Speaking of my mate, she was not at home when I ran back to grab a few things for the trip. I tried mind- linking her, but she must have been at work or too far away for the mind-link to go through. I ended up having to text her when we got to the airport.
Me: “Hey, Babe. Bad news: I have to go to Hawaii with James for a few days.”
Jessica;
“I knew he was going to go. Dr. Hyder told me. I wish I could join you. Why is it bad news?”
Me: “Sheila is coming too.”
Jessica:
“What?!?!? Joey, where are you?”
Me: “At the airport.”
Jessica:
“Joey, you cannot let Sheila get on that airplane.”
Me: “Why? How do I stop her? It was Luna Jane’s idea.”
Jessica:
“Joey, you do not understand. This is a trip that Dr. Hyder set up. James is not going to
Hawaii for fun; he is going to Hawaii to meet Lily.”
Me: “Oh, f&&k. Seriously?”
Jessica:
“Yes, seriously, This may be James‘ only opportunity to fix things. Lily will never agree to come back to the pack if she sees James with Sheila. Please, Babe, you have to do something.”
Me: “F&&k, f&&k, f&&k: Why would James let her come if he knew he was going to meet with Lily?!?!
Any ideas on how to stop her outside of murder?”
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Jessica:
“Eat her boarding pass?”)
Me: It is all electronic, and it is on James‘ phone. Other ideas?”
Jessica: “I don’t know. Oh, Goddess. Sh&t, sh&t, sh&t. This is a disaster.”
Me: “We are boarding in fifteen minutes. Maybe you can reach out to Dr. Hyder and tell him to abort mission?”
Jessica:
“Dr. Hyder said it took a lot of planning to make this trip happen. I do not know if James will get a second chance. I also do not know how much Dr. Hyder will care if James burns his bridges with Lily. He does not like James or our pack very much. His main priority is Lily. He is fine going to the werewolf council and being done with it all. We are the ones that begged him to give James a chance. and who want Lily to come back to the pack and help us.”
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