Shadows of Destiny

Down South.

~Devin~ Since the dinner party where I found Tamia, I haven’t been able to sleep.

I stayed awake most nights, wondering what to do.

I had just agreed to an alliance with the east; it would be wrong to ask the leader to part with his wife because she was my fated.

4 I knew she wasn’t an Alpha breed when she couldn’t sense me and convincing her she was mine was going to be complicated.

The situation between her and Leo made me hopeful, but I wanted to wait a bit.

I knew Leo wouldn’t hold on to her for too long, and I hoped to claim her when they decided to call it quits.

Little did I know Volkov would come calling, bullying his way through.

As much as I had tried to ignore the Volkovs, they always had a way of messing with me.

First, it was my parents and my youth.

Because of Maurice, my father died early, and I could not be a normal teenager because I had to take over.

Now Sylvester has taken my fated.

Attacking the estate in the north was stupid, and many lives were lost in the process, but I was desperate.

I couldn’t take it anymore.

My wolf, Rex, was in pain, and I was hurting every day, knowing that, just like my mother, I might never see my fated again.

When Leo asked me if I had told Sylvester that Tamia was my fated, I could not help but chuckle.

The Volkovs never let go of what they have taken.

They are called trophies for a reason.

They are keepsakes, living proof that they have conquered a place.

I did not know what to do, and as time passed, I became more desperate.

I had to respect Leo for calling a meeting because just as he had heard that I was going to attack the east to take over the rest of the east, I had heard that he would attack me to take back the part of the east that joined the South.

The man did not like trouble, which was one of his strengths.

I decided I would be more careful before acting because someone or some people were clearly trying to knock our heads together.

It still hurt that Kyle thought I would orchestrate the attack against the western borders.

Honestly, I believed Kyle did it, and when it went south, he denied it, but as the days passed, I began to suspect that Sylvester might have orchestrated the entire thing so he could have a reason to attack the east and subdue them.

2 If only Leo could see that it would be wrong to keep allowing the mad lord to rule us.

How many more do we have to give? 3 Even though Leo did not want to go after Sylvester, I will.

For Tamia’s sake, I will.

The universe made her for me, fate gave her to me, and I wasn’t willing to let go.

Leo told me Sylvester and Tamia were together, and it repulsed me.

I was sure she was only doing what she could to survive.

the

living with Leo and

must have hurt her so deeply that her captivity would be

alphas in the South to

making efforts to leave

she tell me her plans the day we danced and I held her in my arms? 3 I did not know what to do and felt I was running out

like this,” Rex, my wolf,

was lying on the grass at the back of my house

I lived alone.

alone since

seriously, and I

and I always let the person I was dating know that I was

be so unlucky? “We can’t let Sylvester keep her,

in

as fast as I

we strike, we have to get it right,” I told my wolf, and he

he was happy about my response; he knew I

western pack, whose territory was attacked for taxes, was on his

my mental state, but I had no choice but to be

that I was

got ready to head to my office

arrived at the office and

man eventually arrived, apologising that he had a long night because he had to go to a

a drink, and

you so much, Alpha

you, but it is them that are savages,” he said,

The man was annoyed.

got much rest, and his appearance was messy

wasn’t tucked in, and he

decency to allow us to mourn

pack and decided to invite us to his engagement

can’t believe someone agreed to

was a luna from the

One of his trophies.

too, I must

He said, ranting, but he had lost

Tamia Albert?” I asked him, and

“Pretty woman.

be tied to the

seemed

not tell if it were pretence or that it was her actual state of mind,” The man said,

fast, and my

filled with anger and fear and battling tears

just so

to growl in my

be able to sense our bond wearing Sylvester’s mark?

when he said they

a way to see her before

her to know that she belonged

Corrigan, are you alright?” Alpha Brighton asked me, and I

said, and he drank the scotch

I learned his woman left him many years ago and came down

how fucked up the family was and didn’t want to

she dodged