Mated in the shadow of my sister by lady gwen

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.”

“F&&k you, Kalen,” I roared.

I hated the fact that Kalen sounded like he was on to something.

I hated even more that I did not know how to do what he wanted me to do. Even as angry as Evelyn has

made me over the past month or so, I still loved her. I would always love her.

I

“Lily belongs with us, Kalen. You may be done fighting for her, but I am not. Until she and James mark

each other, we still have a chance.”

“Um, Brady

“What?!?!?” I roared back.

“Look outside.”

My heart stopped. No. No, no, no, no, no. Please tell me this is not happening. Please.

My heart pounding fast against my chest, I went over to the window and looked out. The moon was full and pink. And clouds roughly shaped like crescent moons were appearing on either side of it.

NO

I felt tears starting to fall. I’am a grown alpha wolf and yet I was crying. Again. Mother f&&ker.

“It is okay, Brady. This is for the best. This means that Lily will be safer, and that she will be able to pursue her destiny.”

“It also means that the Moon Goddess has accepted James as her mate. How?!?! How can the Moon Goddess forgive James and yet not forgive me? I made ONE MISTAKE when I was 20 years old. Yes, I was st upid and selfish. BUT I WAS JUST TWENTY! How can the Moon Goddess punish me for that by

I heard Kalen trying to respond to me in our link, but I put up a block. He fought to break through it, but I fought to keep it up. I did not want anything to do with the Moon Goddess and my wolf right now. I felt

betrayed and angry.

I went over to my suitcase. This trip, I came prepared. I pulled out two bottles of wolfsbane whiske Hopefully this would be enough to silence Kalen and the other awful voices in my head for a while.

Roughly 90 minutes later, I found myself drunk and in the hotel bar. The wolfsbane whiskey had been enough to silence Kalen for a while, but it had not been enough to silence the heartbreak. I needed more.

I signaled for the bartender to bring me another shot when a pretty female plopped down beside me. I

glanced at her out of the corner of my eye.

“You look about as messed up as I do right now,” I commented.

“Double shot of whiskey,” she asked the bartender, ignoring my question.

“Not in a talkative mood, right now?” I asked.

“Not in the mood for anything,” she replied. “I just want to get drunk and forget for a while.”

The bartender served our drinks at the same time. I picked mine up and offered her a toast.

“Join the club,” I said. “I want to forget too. To forgetting.”

The female looked at me hesitantly, but then she picked up her glass and toasted me. “To forgetting.”

“Brady,” I said, introducing myself.

“Charlotte,” she replied.

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