Lily and James (werewolf novel) novel Chapter 94

Chapter 0094

(Brady POV)

I have fallen in love with Lily. Loving and taking care of her has become one of my most important priorities. One day soon, I would love to make her the luna of my pack.

Given my feelings, you may wonder why I bailed on our plans for tonight and let her go out with James

instead. The answer is simple. I only have one priority in my life that will ever be more important to me

than her. And, unfortunately, James knows exactly that that priority is: my 7–year–old son, Sammy.

Sammy is my heir, but he lives with his mother in another pack. He will continue to live with his mother

full–time until he turns 16. At that point, he will move to Black Moon to begin actively training for the

alpha position.

Given the distance between our two packs, and given Sammy’s school and extracurricular activities, I

only get to see Sammy in person during the summer and during school breaks. To make up for my

absence in his everyday life, I do everything I can to stay in touch with him using phone and video calls. I

also play online video games with him, actively using the chat feature of those games to stay connected.

None of that is enough, but 1 am grateful for whatever I can get.

For the past six months, my son has been participating in a weekly debate class. It is specifically

designed for the pups of ranked wolves, and it is intended to help them learn public speaking skills. The

program is run by an academy in Washington D.C., but it serves wolves all over Europe and the United

States. The program is extremely competitive and hard to get into. I had to pull a lot of strings to get

Sammy in, but I was able to pull it off.

It may seem silly to have pups as young as Sammy participate in a debate class, but the reality is that

ranked wolves have heightened responsibilities to their packs, and they need to develop certain skills as

young as possible. Participation in a program like this also allows pups to bond with future pack leaders

across the world, which can become really important for making alliances later on.

For pups this age, the program leaders try to make the class as fun as possible. For example, they debate

very silly and pup–appropriate topics. The pups are also allowed to have a parent attend the class with

them.

The parents play an important role in each week’s class. Parent participants serve as debate partners for

their pups, help their pups prepare talking points when they debate other students, and help the pups

understand and follow up on feedback received from the program Instructors.

Because the program is done entirely online, I had been hopeful that this would be something that

Sammy and I could do together. However, thus far, Sammy has insisted that either his mother or his