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

at

to know the extent of her

tried to understand her

disappoint

her like iron to a

her neck annoyed me, but I kept

I will have

weeks passed, and she was a bit more relaxed with

sleep on her bed, but I would wait

she wouldn’t wear any of the

days away

had a small business to

Tamia would think and whether she would

I also knew she

you figure out who staged the attack?” I asked Theodore, my Gamma,

border of a town in the north,

had been on high alert since my father

in the town whose borders were attacked, so I had to be

also did not want to lose her; she was the only parent I

still investigating, Alpha,” Theodore

I was very uncomfortable.

comfortable if the culprit had

always made me

decided to

didn’t know what caused the attack, but he told me the attackers seemed to be from

for someone to stage such an attack and not

I had just attacked the east and taken their

case, they were stupid because if I had to send my men to attack them

not take likely to

mood change, Marcel, my Beta, called my

us not be hasty,

suffered dearly because

they will do

to do, besides we have their wives, sisters and daughters; we can get information out of them if

to give us information?” I asked him because I knew he was getting attached to the

torture it out of them,” he

torture Avery?” I asked him, and

husband’s secrets

man was

me, and I was shocked at the

want to tell you what that bastard, Kyle, did to his luna because he found his fated,” Theodore said, and whatever it might have

give

one, Alpha,”

lose my head or neglect my duty because of a

She fascinates.

alright, but if she ends up protecting my enemies, she

have enthralled me, but

finally headed back to the

Tamia after what I had discussed with my

to slow down just in case I needed information from

information she might not

to be able to deal with the

came, and Marcel, my beta, brought a letter

knew her husband sent it, and I was curious to see what

opened it and read

the tone of

with

might

humility and pain the letter represented touched, my

letter of

giving her

but he was giving his

need it, but I appreciated

to him; too bad

had lost her long before I took her

now realised why she

want to be his luna

wrenching for her to

Susan