Shadows of Destiny

Brighton’s festival ~Tamia~ 1 Avery and I insisted on sharing the same room.

Alpha Jake offered to have his pack doctor examine me, but I refused.

I planned on managing the condition until I got back to the north.

“That went well; too well, I must say,” Avery linked me, trying to be cautious, and I smiled at her.

“He believed Leo when he told him but still felt insulted until I showed up,” I linked her back, explaining my deduction.

“Alpha Jake Brighton is an old-fashioned man.

He expected word to have gone to Sylvester’s ears of the atrocity in Brighton, and he expected Sylvester to apologise personally even though he had no hand in it.

It is an ego thing for the old man, nothing more.” I linked Avery, and she laughed.

1 “What do you think about Councilwoman Pamela? The woman reeks of treachery,” Avery said aloud, and I laughed.

It would be unwise for us to remain silent all through the room.

Being former Lunas of top packs, we understood the politics.

Alpha Brighton wanted to keep an eye on us and our activities in his territory, so he offered we stay in his house; I was sure people were listening to our conversation.

We had dinner with Alpha Jake, Mikail, his nephew, Iris, his daughter and Donald, his son.

His son and nephew were about my age, and I figured Donald would succeed his father soon.

His daughter, Iris, kept staring at us during dinner, and I was a bit uncomfortable, but I let it be.

We ate in silence and returned to our room.

“Donald did not seem to like us.

I do not know what his deal is.

Jake’s nephew, Mikail, was worse.

He kept staring at us.

Honestly, I can’t wait to be out of this place,” Avery said, lying next to me, and I smiled.

The feeling was mutual.

“I am missing Marcel,” She said and sighed.

“He didn’t want me to come, but I insisted.

Right now, I just want to head back to the north and never leave his side.

It has just been a few hours, and I am missing him so badly,” She said, and I smiled because I felt the same way.

I wondered what Sylvester was doing.

As much as I wanted to place a call, it was best I didn’t.

I was about to fall asleep when my phone.

rang.

I did not need to guess who it was.

I answered in a heartbeat.

“Miss me already, Green eyes?” he said, and I giggled on the phone.

“More than you can imagine.

Would have returned in the morning, but Alpha Jake invited us to a festival tomorrow evening, so we will return after the festival,” I said, and he grumbled on the phone.

We talked about his day, and I handed the phone to Avery to speak with Marcel.

Apparently, she did not come with her phone.

We said good night and fell asleep.

We had breakfast in the morning with our host and his children, and it was a very uncomfortable one.

“When are you two leaving?” Donald asked with a very disrespectful tone, and his father cautioned him.

“You might choose to be silent, but I won’t.

They are marrying the men that attacked their people and took them away from their husbands.

a desperate act of social climbing, then I

to our home, allow them to eat at our

doesn’t have a mother because of the Dark Alpha; my mother was

Yet we are here.

I say these eastern.

themselves, “He said, and I put

to speak when I stopped

is easy to point fingers, call people names and judge them when you do not have

values when you have not experienced certain things, and judging people looking from the outside

us whores and

call my mate vile and evil, but

his promises and forced me to live with his fated, and I lost my rights and standing as luna? Where was your moral compass when Avery’s husband abused her and her wolf day and night, forced her to live with his mistress and placed the bitch above her? No

gave us

away my tears and gave me hope when I

me up; I

I sympathise with

you need to look into the mirror and question your morals,” I said, picking up my fork to continue the meal; I could not let it

No one said anything.

gave us a

that needed improvement,

to Sylvester when I got

part- time work to help with the

nice man.” Jake said, and I

had always known Leo to have a big

glad the things that happened didn’t take

to know how he was doing but reluctant to show

Alpha Corrigan said

hurt to learn that my letter did not give him the closure he

breakfast,

finding

doubt there is anything you can

you seem

you love Volkov, or you would

a lucky man,” Jake said, and

will heal from what happened

about twenty-six and ready to take over, but I am afraid he would make a bad decision that would get him and our people into trouble.” He confessed, and I smiled

“He will heal, Alpha.

do,” I said,

about the initial

eminence that I truly feel honoured that he sent you,”

sighed and looked at Avery and

women have been through a lot and are still

all the strength you can manage in

north is a political jungle of people

never secure, so you have to be

many people want to be

council is only partially

needs to

that was why he

do not have a grudge against

a certain way so there would be

to be stern, keep an

a spillover of something from

know of the power struggle between the six ruling houses of the north,” He said, and I absorbed every word and then used that opportunity to ask

telling me about the power struggle?” I asked, and

with Stephanie Volkov,” He said, and my stomach

woman, wasn’t treated well by her family and her

about her, and you seem to be in the best position to tell me since you experienced when she

nothing special

She wasn’t so bright.

to her,” he said, and I was

or that Stephanie

I asked the

a

Belyaev family, so no one would dethrone

fated’s name was Lady

small merchant family

title even though the Lord was and still is

ensured the woman was

but when the Belyaevs threatened to divide the north, Maurice had to let

why Maurice became power-hungry

believe the man wanted to

one would be able to threaten him as

take over completely and subdue them by wiping out the Belyaevs and their supporters, which were the Babanins and the part of the Lawrence family, leaving