Shadows of Destiny

14 The Wolf Lord ~Sylvester~ “My darling Sylvester, by the time you read this, I would have moved far away from the north.

I know we planned to spend the rest of our lives together, and I looked forward to it.

Three months ago, my brother finally found his fated; she isn’t his girlfriend.

It left his girlfriend broken.

I never want to feel that way.

Your eighteenth birthday is coming soon; I am afraid she won’t be me.

Where will that leave us? I have decided to follow my uncle to the south; please do not come looking for me there.

I hope you find your fated, and I wish you all the best.

Love Susan” 1 I lay in bed, reading the letter my girlfriend left me eleven years ago.

We were in love, and everyone saw her as the next Luna of the north after I succeeded my father.

I had promised her that I would risk being weak and reject my fated if I ever found my fated, and it wasn’t her.

Susan had no faith in my promise and panicked.

She ran away a few months before my eighteenth birthday.

I have never heard from her ever since.

I was heartbroken at first, then I became angry, and then I became numb.

Never wanting to feel that way again, I locked my heart away.

I never found my fated, the reason why she left, and I never fell in love again.

No woman ever caught my attention again.

When my father was murdered, and I had to take up the lordship, it became worse because I now didn’t have time for romance anymore.

It remained that way until recently, when Tamia came into my life.

Something that was supposed to be a trophy soon started giving me sleepless nights.

I was patient, but I didn’t know how long it would last.

When the east decided to insult me by attacking my region, I had to put them in their place.

I had no intention of taking over their region, but I wanted to warn them, and I was glad they got my message.

When the trophies arrived, I thought it would be as usual, and I would draft them accordingly, but I was wrong.

Those green eyes burned into my soul; I had to compose myself when I looked into her eyes.

She was tough, courageous, a true luna, and she was mine.

She had given herself to save others, unsure of the fate ahead of her.

Tamia got me, and her hold was tight and powerful.

After Susan, love stopped having meaning, and relationships lost their value.

I kept a harem of lovers for a while and sent them all away when I turned twenty- six.

What I had now was just a collection of trophies I had never touched.

I kept a harem so no one would have ideas or hope, but Tamia was different.

I knew I would be breaking all my rules with her, and I hoped, for my sake, she would not be my downfall.

When she referred to herself as used goods, I was annoyed because she was like wine; the older, the better.

Priceless and perfect.

4/17 Who would have thought I would find a woman to bring me to my knees? I wanted her for myself.

I needed to give her time to heal before I buried myself in her and claimed her as mine.

She needed time to mourn and accept her new reality before I made my move, but one thing I was sure to do was to make my intention towards her clear to everyone.

So I ensured she ate with me and all the rules that applied to my trophies did not apply to her.

was free to do

with her at night,

the

tried to understand

disappoint me,

was drawn to her like iron to a magnet,

neck annoyed me, but

defy me, I will have

passed, and she was a bit

bed, but I would wait until

me, and I decided she wouldn’t wear any

two days away from the

I had a small business

Tamia would think and whether she would

I also knew she wouldn’t tell

staged the attack?” I asked Theodore, my Gamma, and

town in

since my father was killed

were attacked, so I

also did not want to lose her; she was the

are still investigating, Alpha,” Theodore said and

I was very uncomfortable.

only be comfortable if the

made

and decided to speak

didn’t know what caused the attack, but he told me the attackers

someone to stage such an attack and not try

also knew I had just attacked the east and taken their loved

to retaliate? Could it be that they wanted to take their trophies back? If that was the case, they were stupid because if I had to send

not take

my mood change, Marcel, my

not be hasty,

dearly because of one Alpha’s

doubt they

and daughters; we can get information out of them if the need

they refuse to give us information?” I asked him because I knew he

it out of them,” he

torture Avery?” I asked him, and

her husband’s

was a

to beat Mia, her wolf, ” he told me, and I was

not even want to tell you what that bastard, Kyle, did to his luna because he found his fated,”

doubt Tamia would give up her husband’s

to be careful with that one, Alpha,” Marcel warned me, and I

lose my head or neglect my duty because of a

She fascinates.

protecting my enemies, she will become an enemy,” I said, and I meant

me,

research and finally headed back

Tamia after what I had discussed with my

slow down just in case

information she might not be willing

able to

my beta, brought a letter addressed

and I was

and read both

the tone of a grieving,

fact that her last months with him weren’t great

not, I might have sent

pain the letter

was a letter of

giving her

not have said it clearly for me to see, but he was giving his consent for me to

did not need it, but I appreciated

must have been important to him; too

letters, he had lost her

now realised why

not want to

must have been heart- wrenching for her to choose

remember Susan and why she left