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

spent time with her at night,

know the extent of her

understand

disappoint me,

wolf, Knight, was drawn to her like iron to a magnet, and he troubled me

mark gracing her neck annoyed me, but I kept my cool for

defy me, I will

weeks passed, and she was a bit more relaxed with

sleep on her bed, but

wouldn’t wear any of

spent two days away

business to attend to in the

think and whether she would miss

her temperament, I also knew

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

border of a town in the north, and I needed to find

alert since my father was

lived in the town whose borders were attacked,

to lose her; she

Alpha,” Theodore

I was very uncomfortable.

would only be comfortable if the culprit had a name, face

made me feel

decided to speak

but he told

for someone to stage such an attack and not

I had just attacked the east and taken their

that was the case, they were stupid because

not take

mood change, Marcel, my Beta, called my

us not be

suffered dearly because

they will do

what to do, besides we have their wives, sisters and daughters; we can get information

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

torture it out of them,” he

Avery?” I asked him,

her husband’s secrets in

was

her wolf, ” he told me, and I was shocked at the kind of savagery they

you what that bastard, Kyle, did to his luna because he found his fated,” Theodore

give up her

be careful with that one, Alpha,”

lose my head or

She fascinates.

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

have enthralled me, but I

did some research and finally headed

to see Tamia after

had to slow down just in case I

not be willing

be able to

brought a letter addressed

husband sent it, and I was curious to see what he had

opened it and

the tone of a grieving,

months with him weren’t

might

humility and pain the letter represented touched, my

was a letter of true

was giving

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

it,

him; too bad he was too weak to

on the letters, he had lost her long before

now realised why she gave herself

to

have been heart- wrenching for her

me remember Susan and why