Chapter 152
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(Alpha Brady POV)
I have been having absolutely the best time with Sammy. Despite the fact that I hardly get to see him, Sammy is very much a mini-me. He has my mannerisms, my sense of humor (minus the sexual innuendos ), and many of my same tastes in food, movies, and activities. Since he arrived at Black Moon for his winter break, we have spent every waking moment together, with the exception of 60 minutes each day
that I devote to dealing with pack paperwork and other duties that my beta cannot handle.
If it was not for me worrying about Lily, this would have been the best break with Sammy yet. Evelyn had
even agreed to extend Sammy’s trip by a couple of weeks, citing construction at his school that was
going to allow for a longer than normal winter recess.
Unfortunately, Lily’s disappearance does continue to weigh heavily on me. I have tried not to let it show
when I am around Sammy, but it is always gnawing on me at the back of my mind. One of the things I do
during my 60-minute work sessions each day is check in with the trackers.
So far, my trackers still have not found anything out about Lily or where she went, and she has not
reached out to me either. It angers me a little that she has not reached out to at least let me know that
she is safe, but at the same time I understand that she had her reasons to leave, and that she probably
has her reasons to not reach out.
In retrospect, I wish that my father and I had just told her what the risks are. We did not do so because
my father is convinced that Lily needs to mark a mate voluntarily, and not because she feels rushed to
mark someone before the enemies find her. That is why Rose has not told her either. The sad reality is
though, until Lily marks a mate, she will continue to be in danger. Lily’s value to our enemies largely
depends on them finding her and getting her to mark them before she marks any other male. Now that
she has turned 20 and is at prime mating age, the enemies are understandably getting desperate to find
her.
Once Sammy leaves, I have decided that I am going to go out and search for her personally myself. I
briefly considered reaching out to my father to see if he had heard from her, but I know if he had, he
would have already come here and raged at me for allowing my security team to fall so short. Not only
would I prefer to spare myself my father’s rage while Sammy is here, but also I think it would be difficult
for him to rage at me without drawing unnecessary attention from any enemies that may be watching the
pack.
(In case you were wondering, both sets of grandparents regularly visit Sammy in Canada so that I can
have as much uninterrupted time with my son as I can when he is at Black Moon. That is why my parents
are not here now.)
Speaking of my security team, I have started to wonder if I made the right decision when I blanket-fired all of the 18 guards that had been assigned to Lily. Now that the shock of Lily leaving has started to
wear off, I have realized that Lily sneaking out of the pack was probably fairly easy for her to do regardless of who her security team was: Lily is smarter than anyone gives her credit for, and Rose has many gifts and powers as well.
Of course, the guards absolutely should have noticed that Lily was not coming out of her room, but given. the regular shift rotations and the fact that they saw me go up there every night, perhaps it is not as much as surprise that they missed it as I originally thought. I should have assigned someone to coordinate the shifts and track security notes so that sort of thing could have been noticed more quickly.
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