Mated in the shadow of my sister by lady gwen
Chapter 177

Chapter 0177

(Stephanie POV)

It feels really good to be home.

It also feels really nice to see evidence of how much everyone missed me. I love how many of my pictures and mementos are hung everywhere. If I knew that I was this loved and this missed, I would have come back years ago. While I was gone, Sheila told me some of what the pack did for me, but her

descriptions really did not do it justice.

For her part, my mother was so happy to have me home that she immediately demanded that the pack

host a large welcome-home banquet in my honor. Alpha Randall and Luna Jane were not happy with the

idea -Luna Jane even had the audacity to complain about how much money they had already spent on

Sheila’s cancelled wedding- but they eventually relented.

We would have held the banquet this Friday, but the werewolf council is making life difficult, so we

decided to delay the banquet until James’ birthday. That timing should give the werewolf council plenty

of time to get out of our hair, and it will also give James and I plenty of time to reconnect. I have the

perfect dress in mind that will allow me to show off the mate mark that James will give me before the

event.

Speaking of the werewolf council, they are really annoying me right now. They have placed Sheila and I

on house arrest, and they have also started to sniff around and ask a ton of questions. I really do not

understand what they are doing or why they are punishing me

I mean,

nean, it is not a crime to take an extended vacation. And really, that is all that I did. I did not lie to

anyone and I did not fake my death. I even wrote letters for Pete’s sake! It is not a werewolf crime to

travel the world or sleep with a human. It is also not my fault that Jenny was upset with me and that

Sheila wanted to steal my mate.

Okay, maybe my fault that Jenny was upset with me, but if the Moon Goddess had paired

t was SORT-OF

Sheila and Nick as mates like she should have, none of this would have happened. After what Jenny did to Nick and our family, I feel validated. Jenny never deserved my brother. It is disgusting that she let Nick, James, the rest of my family, and the pack mourn my death, knowing all the while that I was alive. How could she live with herself knowing how much pain she was causing everyone?

I know that Sheila did the same thing, but at least Sheila had a reason I can understand: she wanted

James. What was Jenny’s justification? She experienced some betrayal pains and I sent her a video? Who cares. She did not have to watch the video; any trauma she suffered while watching that is on her. I know I could never watch a video of James sleeping with my sister. How sick does Jenny have to be to have actually watched the entire video of Nick and Sheila together?!?!?

Speaking of James and Lily, I cannot find either of them. I have searched the packhouse twice. I would go look for them outside the packhouse, but again, the st upid werewolf council has me stuck inside.

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Thankfully, my mother thinks that the council investigation will be over soon. The council consists of seven members chosen by the Moon Goddess herself. As far as anyone knows, only six members a currently alive, and my mother has sold girls to three of them. All we need is to be extra friendly to one of the other three and we will have a majority voting in our favor. They will still have to punish Sheila and I somehow-you know, to keep up appearances- but my mother thinks the punishment will be a slap on

the wrist and then we can move on.

In the meantime, I just have to wait. My mother suggested that I keep myself busy by going ahead and moving my belongings into James’ room. She also thinks that I should begin to re-decorate the room to match my style. I think that is a great idea, and I plan to start working on that tomorrow.

I would have done it today, but Luna Jane got angry when she saw me checking out James’ room earlier. She told me that it was James’ room and I did not have any right to be in there. She also told me that I had “some nerve” waltzing in after all this time, and that she has no idea how I can hold my head up high

after all that I did.

I really do not understand what her problem is. James and I are mates and we should sleep in the same room. I wonder if she is just angry that I have a pup and that I slept with a human. If so, she needs to mind her own business. The only one who should care about my past sexual history is James, and my

mother reassured me earlier that the mate bond is powerful and makes you forgive almost anything.

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