"I like to call him Xavier's experiment number one or pain in the ass for short," Lily jumped in earning a glare from James and she smiled at him sweetly. "Xavier is here James, we had a nice little chat which he happily revealed about him having kidnapped Nick's daughter and other unknown amount of children," she explained.
"I never suspected anything of him, he's been coming here for visits for as long as I can remember," Nick explained. "Never caught my attention as being anything but a nice guy," he added.
"That's his specialty," James stated. "Appearing to be concerned, courteous, and generally a person you can count on," he explained.
"I am pretty sure he will be in the woods. If he follows the same M. O. Then it will be a very secluded and dense part of the forest where even werewolves seldom travel," she told the sheriff.
"The forest is pretty extensive there are quite a few places that could fall under that description," he informed them.
"Nick, don't trust anyone with what we discuss here," Lily told him darkly. "Not even those you would trust with your life, Xavier is the worst type of predator and his prey is the secretly unhappy. He traps them with promises and lies, making even the most unsuspecting and most loyal person turn and you won't even realize it until it's too late," she warned him.
"You sound as if you speak from experience," Nick stated.
"Because she does, just a couple of days she was tortured by someone she considered her sister because of Xavier," James told him and Nick's expression turned dark and she could see he realized the threat before him, at least, they got that much from him.
They'd been making plans for hours now and Lily sighed exhaustedly rubbing her getting up from the table. She grabbed an apple from her bag and taking a big bite out of it, she was tired of looking over maps that she had no idea how to read. "I'll have to have my pack help in the search, maybe using just the members that had children taken. The count is up to twenty children now," Nick explained. Lily started to say something after she swallowed the piece of apple she was chewing but slapped her hand over her mouth.
Lily tried to force her body to accept it but had to run to the bathroom quickly and throw it up as well as the food she had eaten from that morning. She washed her mouth out and felt so disappointed. She walked out of the room and tossed the apple into the trash. "Is it getting worse?" James asked and she narrowed her eyes at him.
"What does it look like," she snapped leaving the room. She leaned up against Dorin's SUV, trying to dispel her fear.
"What's getting worse?" she heard Nick ask her and she sighed.
"It's none of your business," she told him pointedly.
"Actually it is, that man is threatening to make my daughter like you," he told her. She sighed again and let her head fall back.
"I'm having a problem eating real food. It's getting to the point I can no longer eat," she confessed.
"Why can't you eat?" He asked and she growled at him unwilling to admit it. "Lily why can't you eat," he demanded using his alpha influence on her and she growled at him once more.
"Because it makes me sick," Lily spat forcefully. "Lately the only way to satisfy my hunger is to drink... blood," she told him and he made a face of disgust. She was so frustrated. The fact that the moon was getting close to being full wasn't helping her any at all, it only made her more restless and nervous. "I'm going to stop him even if it means I have to go down with him," she told him.
"Well let's hope it doesn't come to that," he told her and Lily turned to look at the alpha who had a small smile on his face.
"Aw crushin on me are you?" She asked with a teasing tone and he started to laugh.
"You're not bad to look at but no I am not "crushin" on you. You'd drive me nuts and make my pack doubt my capabilities as alpha within a week, if not less!" He told her and now she started to laugh. "Plus there is no way in hell I'd want to go through James," he told her and she scowled rolling her eyes. "What is the deal between you two by the way?" he asked.
"He is messed up in the head, I blame Xavier's experiments. I swear it fried his brain," she told him and he gave her a pointed look.
"Okay, okay," she started actually feeling glad to talk to someone about it even if it was Alpha Nosey. "Soon after I was changed to this, the local vampire king said if I made any mistakes and lost control he would issue my extermination, which obviously had me feeling like crap. James showed up in my moment of weakness saying just the things I needed to hear and well one thing led to another," she explained.
"He thinks it meant something more than what it was; a bite mark doesn't make me his mate no matter what he says. Especially when in all honestly if any man showed up saying those things I would have done exactly the same," she finished feeling a little slutty.
"Actually bite mark is the mark of a mate," Nick told her.
"If that were true I'd have to be all mushy for him but I can't stand James and he irritates the hell out of me," she told him with a matter of fact tone and he laughed quietly.
"Well you two aren't exactly normal wolves now are you," he told her and she shrugged. "The line between love and hate is very thin," he added and she gave him a disgusted look making him laugh loudly. "You say if any man showed up that moment you would have done the same, but it was him that found you and somehow he knew exactly what to say," he told her with his own matter of fact tone.
"The alpha told him to find me," Lily shot stubbornly.