Lily and James (werewolf novel) novel Chapter 173

Chapter 0173

(Nick POV)

I ended up sitting in that d&&n chair in the packhouse until three o’clock in the morning. It was only after the activity around me quieted down, leaving me by myself, that I finally I decided to drag myself home.

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Jenny and I have a small cottage near the pack house. My grandparents used to live there until they died. My parents gave me the cottage when Jenny and I married. It is about a five minute walk.

To my surprise, despite the late hour, Jenny was waiting for me in the living room when I walked in. The

first thing that I noticed -other than the fact that she was awake- was that she had a large suitcase

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sitting next to her.

“Jenny, what are you still doing up?” I asked.

She stood up. “I have been waiting for you.”

“Why?”

“Don’t you think we need to talk?”

I sighed as I ran my fingers through my hair. “Now?”

She nodded. “Yes, now.”

“Can it wait until the morning? After we have slept a little?”

Jenny ignored my question. Instead, she asked one of her own.

“Will you cut off your family, denounce the pack, and leave with me?”

“What?”

Jenny’s question sounded oddly rehea rsed, and yet it was not at all what I expected her to say.

“Nick, they are not good people. What came out today does not even cover a fraction of the horrible things that they have done. It is not just Stephanie and Sheila. Your mother, your father, Alpha Randall, and Luna Jane have all done things. Bad things. All of them are to blame.”

I ran my hands down my face. “Can we please talk about this in the morning, Jenny? It has been a really long day. We both need some sleep.”

“No.”

“No?”

“No, Nick. We need to talk about this now. I need to know if you are willing to cut ties with your family.”

“How can you ask me to do that, Jenny?” I asked in both exhaustion and disbelief. “They are my family!”

“I already told you. They are not good people,” she responded sadly."

“I know that Stephanie did some bad things to us. Horrible things. But my parents are my family tool

Family stands by one another. Forgives each other for making mistakes.”

“You never felt that way when it had to do with Lily,” she said bitterly.

I rubbed my neck. She was right. Goddess, she was right.

Even so… Two wrongs do not make a right. And Jenny was not just asking me to cut off Stephanie. She

was asking me to cut off my entire family and my entire pack. That was a lot to ask. She had to know

what a huge “ask” that was.

“You are one to talk, Jenny. You were right there with us when half the stuff happened to Lily. And unlike

all of us, you knew the truth.”

Jenny wiped a tear from her eye and shrugged her shoulders. “You are right. I guess you could say I am a

bad person too.”

“Why?” I asked. “Why did you keep it all to yourself? Why didn’t you tell me? Why did you let all of us suffer unnecessarily?”

Jenny started crying. Through her tears, she tried to explain.