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.

isn’t shameless and a desperate act of social climbing, then

allow them to

because of the Dark Alpha; my mother was taken from me because

Yet we are here.

I say these eastern.

and

to

easy to point fingers, call people names and judge them when you

moral values when you have not experienced certain things,

call us whores and

vile and evil, but he was

ex-husband broke 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

love and gave us the strength and courage

wiped away my tears and gave me hope when I thought all

husband did not give me up; I gave myself up to

for your mother and aunt, I sympathise with you, but Sylvester is nothing

question your

No one said anything.

Alpha Brighton gave us

many things that needed improvement, and I

to Sylvester when I got

offered my people part-

is truly a nice man.” Jake

known Leo to have

the things that happened didn’t

asked, eager to know how he was

days; Alpha Corrigan said he is still

hurt to learn that

my son during breakfast, I figured he

finding it hard

there is anything you can do to

seem pretty

you would have used this opportunity to run

a lucky man,” Jake said, and I

Mikail will heal from what happened to

but I

“He will heal, Alpha.

I said, and he

am sorry about the

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

sighed and looked at Avery

been through a

need all the strength you can

jungle of people wrestling

are never secure, so you have to be

people want to

council

needs to

this, and that was why he

do not have a grudge

to be a certain way so

is trying to be kind, but someone has to be stern, keep an eye

be suffering a spillover of something from his father’s

not sure, but some of us old Alphas know of the power struggle between the six ruling houses of the north,” He said, and I absorbed every word and then

telling me about the power struggle?”

with Stephanie Volkov,” He said, and my stomach

well by her family and her mate, but

and I shook my head “Nothing, but I would like to know more about her, and you seem to be

is nothing

She wasn’t so bright.

his fated to

a fated or that Stephanie had

I asked the

a well-kept

is a member of the Belyaev family, so no

name was Lady Alissa

was from a small merchant family in

the Lord was and still is allowed to have more

woman was presented as one of his

but when the Belyaevs threatened

became power-hungry and a

man wanted to

be able to threaten him as

by wiping out the Belyaevs and their supporters, which were the Babanins and the part of the Lawrence family, leaving Stephanie