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 as

spent time with her at night,

wanted to know the extent

to understand her

didn’t disappoint

to her like iron to a magnet,

annoyed me, but I kept my cool for

to defy me, I will have to end him to

passed, and she was a bit more

to sleep on her bed, but I would wait

provoked me, and I decided she wouldn’t wear

days away

business to attend to in the neighbouring

what Tamia would think

I also knew she

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

the border of a town in the north, and

my father was killed

in the town whose borders were attacked,

also did not want to lose her; she was the

are still investigating, Alpha,” Theodore said

I was very uncomfortable.

only be comfortable if the culprit had a name, face

always made me

rest and decided to

told me

too far for someone to stage such

I had just attacked the

were stupid because if I had to

not take likely

my mood change, Marcel, my Beta, called

“Let us not be

dearly because of one Alpha’s

they will

their wives, sisters and daughters; we can get information out of them if the need arises,” He pointed out and smiled at

asked him because I knew he was

out of them,” he said, and I

will willingly torture Avery?” I asked him, and

give up her husband’s secrets in a

man was a

to beat Mia, her wolf, ” he told me, and I was shocked at the kind of

did to his luna because he found his fated,” Theodore said, and whatever it might

would give up her husband’s

one, Alpha,” Marcel warned

never lose my head or

She fascinates.

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

me,

finally

after what I had

had to slow down just in case I needed

might not be willing to

to be able to deal

and Marcel, my beta, brought a letter addressed to Tamia

I was curious to

opened it and read both

tone of

fact that her last months with him

not, I might have sent her

and pain the letter

a letter of true

was giving her

said it clearly for me to see, but he was giving his consent for me to care for her and love

it, but I appreciated

too

had lost her long before

why

to be his

must have been heart- wrenching for her

me remember Susan and why she left