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

with her at night, and we talked about

wanted to know the extent of

understand her 5/17

didn’t disappoint me,

was drawn to her like iron to a magnet, and

me, but I kept my cool for

me, I will have to end

she was a bit more relaxed with

sleep on her bed, but I would wait until

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

days away from

small business to attend to in the

think and whether she would miss

her temperament, I also

out who staged the attack?” I asked

town in the

had been on high alert since my

town whose borders were attacked, so

her; she was the only parent I

are still investigating, Alpha,” Theodore said and

I was very uncomfortable.

be comfortable if the culprit had a name, face

always made me

decided to speak

told me the attackers

someone to stage such an

also knew I had just attacked the east and taken their

take their trophies back? If that was the case, they were stupid because if

not take

mood change, Marcel, my Beta, called my

not

because of one Alpha’s

doubt they will do

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

refuse to give us information?” I asked him because I

torture it out of them,” he said,

Avery?”

up her husband’s secrets in

was

Mia, her wolf, ” he told me, and I was shocked at

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

give up

need to be careful with that one, Alpha,” Marcel

or neglect my duty because

She fascinates.

alright, but if she ends up protecting my enemies, she will become an enemy,” I said, and I meant

me, but I wasn’t

and finally

after what I

I had to slow down just in case I needed

not

want to be able to deal with

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

it, and I was curious to see what he

it and read both

tone of a grieving, broken

that her last months with him weren’t great made

I might have

humility and pain the

a letter of

giving her

said it clearly for me to see, but he was

did not need it,

to him; too bad he was too

letters, he had lost her long before I took her from

why

to

situation must have been heart- wrenching for her to choose the unknown over

me remember Susan