Lily and James (werewolf novel) novel Chapter 43

Chapter 0043

(James POV)

I look at my parents in disbelief. “What do you mean that you do not know where Lily is? I thought your sealed the borders after Lily left the hall?”

“We did, Son. And we sent guards out looking for her. There was no trace of her. They looked everywhere.”

“How that can be, Father? You saw how injured she was! At she had a broken leg and a broken arm. She was literally limping as she left the event hall, and she had the rejection to deal with

on top of all of that. She doesn’t even have a wolf! How far could she possibly have gotten?”

“I do not know what to tell you, Son. We tried to find her, but we could not,” my father said sadly.

“How long did you look?” I asked accusingly.

My father looked away. An alpha never looks away from an uncomfortable conversation, which means

the answer really bothers him… and which means that the answer is going to really shock and offend me.

“Two days.”

“TWO DAYS?!?!? YOU HAD YOUR MEN LOOK FOR TWO DAYS?!?!?!! WE LOOKED FOR TRACES OF

STEPHANIE FOR SIX MONTHS, AND THAT WAS AFTER WE CONFIRMED THAT SHE WAS DEAD AND

HELD HER FUNERAL! HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY GIVE UP AFTER TWO DAYS?”

My father continued to look away, not saying anything.

“You two are always so worried about what Robert and Margie think. Well, what about this? What do they

think about the fact that you gave up the search for their only other daughter AFTER JUST TWO DAYS????”

“It was Margie’s idea,” my mother said softly. “She thought… she thought it was better that we all just try

to move on.”

“WHAT?!?!?! No, there is no way that that is true. This is the she-wolf who insists on celebrating

Stephanie’s death anniversary and birthday every year. She is the one who turned the packhouse into a

practical museum dedicated to Stephanie’s memory. She is the same one who you just got done telling

me is insisting that I give a ‘grand’ speech to the pack at Stephanie’s birthday memorial so that I can

I

reassure her and them that Stephanie is still important to me.

There is NO WAY that Margie was okay with you giving up the search after two days! What if Lily is out

there, dying? What if someone kidnapped her? What if… what if she is… what if she…”

“Relax, Son,” my father cut in. “Lily is alive, that much I am confident of. We would have found her body or evidence if she was not. Like you said, she could not have gotten far on her own. My best guess is

that she got help from someone.”

“Who?”

“I have no idea.”

I ran my hands through my hair, and began to pace back and forth in the room.

“Why are How can they be okay with not knowing where their daughter

Margle and Robert okay with this?

is?”

“Ever… ever since you told them about what Lily did the night Stephanie died, their relationship with Lily

has been strained,” my mother explained.