Lily and James (werewolf novel) novel Chapter 27

Chapter 0027

(Lily POV)

There is only so much suffering that I can be expected to deal with, and there are only so many lies that I

can be expected to tell myself to make it all okay.

I refuse to be punished any longer.

I am not Stephanie. Who f—ing cares! No one in this pack knew her the way that I did anyway. Perhaps if

they did, they would be glad that I am not her. Or… perhaps they would still miss her. Who knows. At this!

point, I am not sure that it matters anymore. At least it does not matter to me.

As of this moment, I will no longer live under Stephanie’s shadow. I will no longer allow my insecurities

to convince me that I must accept the blame.

I am done.

I do not think that James has any appreciation for what he has done, or for what his so–called revenge is

about to cost him.

Even after my mother gave me the absolutely worst beating of my life, I was willing to leave the pack

quietly and peacefully.

Even after I discovered that my beloved father thinks that I do not have what it takes to be a Luna, and that I could only ever be a burden to a male werewolf, I was willing to leave quietly and peacefully.

Even after I was forced while bloody, bruised, and only half–conscious- to attend yet another one of Stephanie’s memorials, I was willing to leave quietly and peacefully.

And even after I discovered that James planned to take a chosen mate and use Stephanie’s memorial to

taunt me with that fact, I was willing to leave quietly and peacefully.

But then… then James went a step too far. For him to seriously and publicly suggest that SHEILA BLACK could be a suitable Luna? A she–wolf who was ACTUALLY involved in what happened to Stephanie?

No.

No, no, no, no, no. In the name of all the pack members who have silently suffered because of the actions of Sheila Black, i will not go quietly…

And I will not go peacefully.