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.

free to do as she

spent time with her at night, and

to know the extent of

to understand her 5/17

didn’t disappoint me,

like iron to a magnet, and he troubled me to make it

neck annoyed me, but

to defy me, I will have

was a

sleep on her bed, but I

in the tunic provoked me, and I decided she wouldn’t wear any of the sheer outfits given

days away from

and I had a small business to attend to in the neighbouring

Tamia would think and whether she

also knew she

I asked

border of a town in

had been on high alert since my father was killed on his

town whose borders were attacked, so I had to

also did not want to lose her; she was the

still investigating, Alpha,” Theodore said and

I was very uncomfortable.

only be comfortable if the culprit

always made

decided

caused the attack, but he told me the attackers seemed to

for someone to stage such an attack and

just attacked the east and taken their loved ones from

back? If that was the case, they were stupid because

take likely

change, Marcel, my Beta, called my

us not be

dearly because of

doubt they will do

to do, besides we have their wives, sisters and daughters; we can get information out of them if the need arises,” He

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

it out of

torture Avery?” I

give up her husband’s secrets

was

her wolf, ” he told me, and I

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

give up her husband’s

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

can never lose my head or

She fascinates.

alright, but if she ends up protecting my enemies, she will become an enemy,”

might have enthralled me,

finally headed back to

Tamia after what I had

slow down just in case I needed

not be willing

be able to

beta, brought a letter

sent it, and I was curious to see what

it and read

of a grieving,

with

not, I might have sent

the

letter of

giving

for me to see, but he was giving his consent for me to

did not need it, but

been important to him; too bad

her

realised why she

to

must have been heart- wrenching for her to choose the

Susan