Chapter 0208
(Brady POV)
I left Lily’s apartment and headed back to my hotel room. I felt rejected, lonely, and angry. It made absolutely no sense to me why Lily would reject me in favor of that a&&hole… much less how she could look me in the eye and tell me that she loves him.
“She told you that because it was the truth. She does love him,” Kalen responded in our link.
Kalen and I normally get along pretty well. Our first and only major fight had to do with Evelyn and my
desire to sleep around.
Unfortunately, I could tell that Kalen and I were about to have major fight # 2.
“You are wrong, Kalen,” I growled through the link. “Lily is just confused. She can’t possibly love
someone who has done the things that James has done and who has hurt her like he has. She is better
than that.”
“James regrets what he did, and he has changed. He has been working to become a better wolf.”
I growled again.
“I regretted my actions, too, Kalen. I also changed. And Goddess knows how many years I have spent
working to become a better wolf and alpha. None of that was enough for Evelyn. And here James has
been trying for a couple of months?!?! How can that be enough for Lily?”
“This is not about you, Brady,” Kalen said sadly. “Lily’s relationship with James is about her and James,”
“F&&k you, Kalen. Of course Lily’s relationship with James is about me. I love her! She should be with
me!”
“She is not yours.”
I stood up and punched a hole in the wall.
“How can you say that, Kalen? Until four hours ago, you were completely on board with taking Lily and Rose as chosen mates. And now that we are here, you want to just give up?!?!?”
Kalen sighed through the link. “Lily was right, Brady. We got attached to Lily because of Evelyn.”
“BULLSH&T! Lily is special in her own right.”
“Yes, she is. But that is not why we got so attached to her. We need to move on and wait for our second chance mate.”
“IT HAS BEEN YEARS, KALEN. YEARS. If the Moon Goddess was going to give us a second chance mate, do you not think we would have met her by now?!?!?”
“We have not been ready.”
“How can we not be ready? I recognized my mistake. I apologized for my mistake. I have paid the consequences for my mistake. What more could I possibly do to be ready?”
“Let go.”
“What?!?!”
“We will never be ready for a second chance mate unless we are willing to let go of our first one. We
need to let go of Evelyn and Edie.”
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