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“When will you be banishing the Raines’?” I ask. r our
“Tonight. I’ve called the entire pack to witness what happens when one of our pack members threaten another.”
“If you want to be there, Cali will come stay with Lily. I think she’s planning to come by anyway.” Ande says.
“I’ll think about it.”
“She’ll be okay. She’s a Guardian and she has her mate by her side.”
They turn to leave, and I return to my mate, crawling into bed and curling myself around her.
Well Aaron Raines is a piece of work. What do you think of Patrick and Anders’ decision to banish them instead of killing them for what they did to Lily?
Vbter (82).
When i wake up, my lungs are cilli burring, but the scent of apple pie and the feeling of my mate wrapped around me in my hospital bed soothes the ache in my lanas. The doctors run a bunch of tests and are shocked at how quickly I have healed. A serious silver injury like this should have had me out for weeks. I don’t feel great, but I definitely feel better.
I find out what happened in the two days I was out. My parents were banished on the evening of my birthday Clint told me that Call stayed with me while he went to watch. My father apparently shouted obscenities to everyone in the pack, but specifically at Clint while my mother sobbed but followed my father off the pack lands.
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The doctors keep me another day after I wake up, watching me as I cough up silver residue. The punctures in my lungs have healed and my collapsed lung has repaired itself. The doctors were concerned that the excessive coughing might cause it to collapse again, but as the day goes on, my coughing gets lighter and lighter. Clint never leaves my side.
The doctors release me in time for graduation. Most of the pack is there to watch as their future Alpha. Luna and two Guardians graduate. Afterwards the pack has a huge party, and they add my birthday party in. It’s a festive night and the best part was getting to sleep beside my mate in our bed.
The day after our graduation, Alpha Patrick calls me and Clint into his office. Anders and Calvin are also there. “Lily, I have some news about your parents. I found out yesterday but didn’t want to say anything until I confirmed what I was told and I didn’t want to ruin your graduation party.”
I tense up. This won’t be good. Clint is immediately there, pulling me into his lap and sharing my seat with me, his arms wrap around me in a ring of love and security. I lean back against him and nod my head at Alpha Patrick to continue.
“I received a call from Alpha Leander yesterday. His patrols found two individuals near their borders. They had been murdered and dumped in close proximity to Shadow Fall’s borders. Calvin went and confirmed that they were your parents.” My throat constricts and a single tear drops down my face. “I’m sorry Lily. I know they weren’t good parents, but they were your parents; and this must be hard for you.”
Clint’s arms tighten around me. I turn in his lap, burying my face in his neck, breathing in his scent. My father was never a great father, but in the end his addiction tore our family apart and ended my parents’ lives.
Everyone waits while Clint murmurs to me, rubbing my back and my hair while I let me silent tears for my parents fall. When I’m done, I sniff, sitting up and looking back at Alpha Patrick. “Do you need me to confirm their identities?” I look at Beta Calvin. “Not that I don’t trust you, but I didn’t know if, as family, I needed to confirm that they are my parents.”
Beta Calvin looks Alpha Patrick. It’s Alpha Patrick that responds. “Lily.” He stops, and I can see he’s struggling with how to tell me what he wants to say. Whatever it is, it’s bad.
“There wasn’t enough left to identify your parents visually. Calvin had to do it based on scent.”
I blink and I blink again. I feel my mouth opening and closing, trying to make words, but nothing comes out.
“They were slaughtered? Even my mother?” I finally whisper.
“Yes, I’m afraid so.”
I feel like I’m in shock. Maybe my father deserved that, but my mother didn’t. All she ever did was follow the mate bond and her love of my father. And it got her killed in the worst possible way.
I pull out of Clint’s arms. I need to get out of this office now. “Thank you for telling me.” I dy and I race out the door. Clint is right behind me. He takes my hand and without a word, he pulls me down the stairs and out the back door. As soon as we’re outside, he picks me up and begins running. He takes me to the lake, our part of the lake where just a short week ago we spent hours making love.
He sits down, keeping me in his lap. “I’m right here Lily bud.” That’s all he says. He sits with me for hours, letting me process my sadness and anger without saying a word. He lends me his strength and pours his love for me through the bond.
When I finally come to terms with the fact that they are dead, he asks me if I want to do anything for them. Over the next week, I decide what I want to do, not necessarily to honor my father, but to make sure that this doesn’t happen to anyone again.
I meet with Alpha Patrick, Anders and Clint and I tell him what I’d like to do. Our pack is known for its internal gambling. It’s a fun past-time that helps break up monotony when things are quiet and helps blow off steam during stressful times. However, there are times when people, like my father, become addicted. I tell them that I want to develop a program or some way that any people in our pack that become addicted to gambling, or begin to show concerning signs that they are getting in over their head financially, are identified early and get the help that they need.
“I think that’s a fantastic idea Lily and I’m embarrased that I didn’t think of it myself. Calvin, Anders and I will talk about it and develop a plan to assist those that struggle with addiction.”
“Thank you, Alpha.” I say.
When Clint and I leave the office, he looks at me, smiling.
“What?” I ask him.
?
“I’m not sure I’ve told you today how amazing you are. Every day, you do something that puts me in awe of you.” He pulls me into his arms, leaning down and giving me a soft kiss.
“I seriously don’t know what I ever did to deserve such an incredible mate. You are the most extraordinary woman I’ve never met, and I am the luckiest man in the world.”
“Are you going soft on me, Guardian?”
Donovan growls softly, while Clint pushes his hips against me. “Do I feel soft to you, Guardian?”
I laugh as Clint takes me to our room and shows me just how soft he hasn’t gotten.
Clint and I get into a routine after graduation. We decide to wait to have children. We want to enjoy some time together, just the two of us. It works out great, because Anders and Calista have the same thought so the four of us get to spend lots of time together, enjoying our friendship and our mates.
In the two months before Anders takes over as Alpha, he and I, as well as Charles, Calvin’s son and Anders’ intended Beta, begin a new schedule of training. Patrick is slowly passing things over to Anders and while we take the time we have to go away and spend with our mates, most of our time is spent taking over the duties of the pack. Anders had Lily and I take over morning training, letting us train together in the afternoons while he and Charles took over afternoon training.
One day, as Anders and I were finishing up our training schedule, we walked toward the kitchen to find our mates for lunch. When I hear my mate’s snarling voice, I stop to hear what’s going on, pulling Anders” arm to get him to stop too.
“Ladies. Are you so desperate and petty that you have to sit around the kitchen, talking about the good old days when you had your 15 minutes of heaven with someone that is no longer available and will never be yours? I mean, if it were me, and, of course, it’s not because I’m mated to a Guardian, but if it were me, I’d be more concerned about who was available that maybe I could actually have a chance with, not sitting around like a bunch of old maids talking of the days gone by. And, if the purpose of this conversation is to make your future Luna uncomfortable with the fact that her mate slept with someone other than her, rest assured that she already knows. But that is in the past. No one and nothing will take Anders away from Calista.”
“Excuse me?” One of the she-wolves that Lily is addressing says.
“Yes, you do need to be excused. All of you need to get a life. Get over it. You may have slept with
Anders. Maybe you slept with Clint. That was then, this is now bitches. Those men are off the market. Go find your own.”
“And if we don’t?” Another girl stands up. Seriously? These she-wolves need to get a life. Anders and I haven’t been interested in anyone else in months. And no one will ever be able to turn our heads from our mates.
“Not one of you even trains, do you really think I couldn’t take every one of you at once and not even break a sweat. Don’t embarrass yourselves any more than you already have.” I hear Lily say.