Filed To Story: In the Shadow of the Past Luna (Lily & James)
Joey and Jessica stood nervously side by side, staring at Lily. It was the first time that they had seen Lily since she went to Brady’s pack.
“L-Lily,”
Jessica said hesitantly.
I almost laughed. The two of them looked the way I am sure that I looked when the Wolf Packers baseball players invited me to play with them. It was a mix of awe and fear.
Lily only hesitated for a moment. She went up to each of them and gave them a huge hug.
“Thank you,”
she whispered to both.
They looked back and forth between Lily and I with confusion.
“Why why are you thanking us? We should be thanking you.”
Jessica asked.
Lily gave them a warm smile. “No. I know what you did for me. You saved me, and you saved us,”
she said, gesturing to me. “I do not know if I would be standing here with James if it was not for the two of you.
Jessica started to tear up.
Joey, meanwhile, continued to look at Lily with shame as he rubbed his neck. “Lily, I… I am so, so, so sorry for everything that I did to you in the past. I cannot
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well you how much I regret it all.”
“I appreciate your apology,”
Lily responded. “However, James has filled me in. I feel like I have gotten to know you all over again through the stories he has told me. None of us are who we were in the past.
Jessica reached out and hugged Lily again. “Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have no idea how grateful we are that you are here.”
After a minute, Lily pulled back. I could see a couple of tears in her eyes as well. Lily had told me how much she valued Jessica’s friendship when they were younger. I think getting Jessica back in her life meant almost as much to Lily as getting Lily back meant to Jessica.
“Its 6:10. Are you ready for the meeting with your father?”
Joey asked, pulling himself back into business mode.
“Yes,”
I confirmed. I was meeting with my father at 6:30; Margie’s party started at 7:00.
“Are you sure that you do not want Joey or Nick to go with you?”
Lily asked me in concern.
“I am sure. The meeting will be short and sweet. My father will tell me to f&&k off and then I will meet all of you at the party, okay?”
Lily kissed me gently. “Okay. Good luck.
“I love you too, sweetheart.”
I love you.”
With that, I headed back out the front door, our plan was for Lily to stay with Joey and Jessica until the party.
As I left, I saw Nick pacing on the sidewalk outside. I looked at him curiously.
What are you doi
“What are you doing out here, Nick?”
I asked.
“I… I wanted to come and see Lily before the party, but I … I wasn’t sure if Lily would be willing to see me.”
I gave him a sad smile and gripped his shoulder. “Your sister has an amazing capacity for forgiveness.”
“But I am her brother. I should have done more to protect her. I should have-
“-And I am her mate. I did far more to hurt her than you did.”
.
“But-“
“Nick, go in there and talk to her. See what she says. Your sister is an incredible she-wolf, and she believes in the power of people to change. You have done a lot of that lately, so I think you might be pleasantly surprised by her reaction to you.”
Nick gave me door.
a half-smile. He continued to look worried, but I watched as he slowly walked to Joey’s
(Alpha Randall POV)
At 6:25 p.m., I kissed my wife and headed down to my office to meet our disappointment of a son. I did not know why I agreed to meet with him, much less why I was making an effort to be on time. Timeliness was important to me, but it was not important to James. I knew I would be lucky if he showed up prior to
7.00.
Honestly, after everything that James had put Jane and I through the last several months, I was ready to turn the pack over to Nick and disown James. Only three things were currently stopping me: 1) Nick’s me ntal health after Jenny left him; 2) Margie’s unyielding desire for Stephanie to be made Luna; and 3)
Jane’s absolute love and devotion to our son.
I could only hope that James asked for this meeting so that he could apologize to me for his constant disappearing acts, and so that he could ask for advice on how to make things right with his pack and his family.
I knew that might be too much to ask for, but I prayed that he at least did not plan to embarrass his mother and I again tonight. We were running out of money and capital, and we could not afford to have any more scandals in front of our pack members and close allies.
To my shock, the lights were on in my office when I got there. I opened the door and found James sitting in my chair, with his feet propped up on my desk.
“You made it,”
James said matter of factly.
“Get out of my chair,”
I growled.
“It isn’t your chair anymore,”
James responded calmly.
“Get Out. Of. My. Chair,”
I repeated.
“Sit down in a quest chair, Father.”
To my surprise, my body began walking towards the guest chair. I then sat down in it. I did not intend to do either of those things.
“How did you do that?”
I asked James suspiciously.
I did not feel the pressure that you would typically feel when an alpha command was released, nor should James have been able to alpha-command me in the first place. Still, I somehow knew that he had something to do with it.
James smiled at me mischievously. “It is not important right now. We have more important things to talk about.”
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