Mated in the shadow of my sister by lady gwen

Chapter 0232

(James POV)

“We need to talk to Andrew,” Lily told the group. “Now.”

After she said that, Dr. Hyder and Brady stepped to the side and began mind-linking. They were

presumably making arrangements to determine Andrew’s location and bring him to the office. It

impressed me that they were willing to follow her directions first and ask questions later; it showed how

much respect and trust they had for her.

While Brady and Dr. Hyder worked on getting Andrew here, I reached for Lily and wrapped her in my

arms. For a moment, I almost forgot that anyone else was in the room.

“I am so sorry, Lily. My whole family…”

Lily gently cupped my face. “Stop. We don’t know for sure. There could be other explanations.”

I shook my head.

“You saw and heard it first, Lily. You came to the same conclusion that I did. There is far too much there.

for any of it to be a coincidence.”

“Even if it’s not… even if Andrew really is behind some of this… we will deal with it okay?”

“But you have gone through so much because of my family, and now this…”

Lily put a finger on my lips to silence me. “Seriously, stop. We are in this together. If it is Andrew behind

the current threats, we have the tools now to deal with it. And you do not have to feel responsible for

you do not have to feel responsible for

anything that anyone in your family did… unless you want me to feel responsible for the sh&t my mother

and sister pulled off, which is far worse:

“Ok, fair point. But….”

Lily gave me a look, and I could not help but smile at her.

“Let’s talk to Andrew and then go from there, okay?” she suggested.

I nodded and then leaned down to kiss her. Just after our lips met, we heard coughing behind us,

reminding us that Dr. Hyder, Brady, and Charlotte were still in the room.

Lily blushed and turned around to face them. She wrapped my arms around her so that I was hugging her

from behind. Despite the seriousness of the situation, I loved how well we fit together, and I loved that

she was willing to be affectionate even around them.

“Sorry… we got distracted for a moment,” she told them.

“What is going on?” Dr. Hyder asked.

Lily took a deep breath.

“When we put our hands on Evelyn’s head, we were able to communicate with her wolf and go through

some of Evelyn’s memories,” Lily explained.

“She has been working with Andrew?” Brady asked.

“No. At least not intentionally. We didn’t see anything concrete. It’s just… some of the conversations

that they have had indicate that Andrew knows things..

Dr. Hyder signaled for us to all sit down again. “The guards have located Andrew. They will bring him

here in 15 minutes. Why don’t you explain what you saw.”

Slowly, Lily and I began to explain the memories that we went through and what Evelyn’s wolf told us.

For her 19th birthday, Evelyn’s girlfriends took her on a two-week skiing trip to Canada. That is when she

met Andrew, completely by chance.

Andrew had walked into the ski lodge that they were staying at and saw Evelyn sitting in the large

communal dining room with her friends. He immediately approached her, and his eyes were filled with

wonder.

“It is you. The chosen one,” he said to her.

Evelyn did not understand what Andrew meant by those words, nor did she necessarily care. She tried to

go back to her coffee and to her conversations with her friends.

Andrew, however, would not let her go. For the next three days, he followed Evelyn almost everywhere

she went. He repeatedly told her how beautiful she was. He also told her that he believed that the Moon

Goddess wanted them to be together. She tried telling Andrew that she had a boyfriend back home, but

Andrew refused to give up.

At first, Evelyn was a little creeped out by Andrew. Although he was a good-looking male and seemed to

be a nice guy, he was coming on really strong. Even so, Evelyn appreciated the feeling of being pursued

and desired. She also appreciated that she and Andrew had a shared interest in history and philosophy,

which she knew because Andrew regularly initiated conversations with her about the g ods and goddesses

*use of prophecies throughout time.

It ultimately took about a week, but Andrew eventually wore Evelyn down. By week two, the two were in

Evelyn felt guilty for cheating on Brady, but she continued the relationship with Andrew anyway. They

would meet at least once a month -sometimes twice- in various places between Black Moon and

Andrew’s pack in Canada. They would also regularly text one another throughout the week.

As Evelyn’s 20th birthday approached, Andrew started to muse more and more about how amazing life.

would be when Evelyn marked him. Lily took special note of the fact that -in all the memories that

Evelyn’s wolf, Edy, showed us- Andrew seemed far more interested in receiving Evelyn’s mark than he

was in marking her himself.

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