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.

and a desperate act of social

them to eat at our table and pretend everything

my mother was taken

Yet we are here.

I say these eastern.

“He said, and I put down my

to speak when

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

about loyalty and moral values when you have not

us

mate vile and evil, but

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

gave us the strength and courage to

gave me

not give me up; I gave

and aunt, I sympathise with you, but

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 tour of

things that needed improvement,

relay to Sylvester when I

has offered my people part- time work to

nice man.” Jake said, and I

had always known Leo

glad the things that happened

asked, eager to know how he was

he has seen better days; Alpha Corrigan

closure,” He said, and I was hurt to learn that my letter did not give him

breakfast, I figured

finding it hard to

you can do to help

you seem

you love Volkov, or you would

is a lucky man,” Jake

will heal from what happened

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

“He will heal, Alpha.

all do,” I said,

am sorry about the

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

and looked at Avery and

women have been through a lot and are still

you

north is a political jungle of people wrestling

secure, so you have to

people want to be affiliated with the

happened, the council

to be

knew this, and that was why

I do not have a

to be a certain way so there would be peace

to be kind, but someone has to be stern, keep an

a spillover of something from his

power struggle between the six ruling houses of the north,” He said,

the power struggle?”

He said, and

nice woman, wasn’t treated well by her family and her mate, but she can be vindictive.” He said, and he noticed

like to know more about her, and you seem to be in the best position to tell me since you experienced

nothing

She wasn’t so bright.

his fated to her,”

had a fated or that Stephanie had to share him with his

fated?” I asked the man,

was a

of the Belyaev family,

fated’s name was Lady

small merchant family in

not share her title even though the Lord was and still is allowed to have more

she always ensured the woman was presented as one of

it often, but when the Belyaevs threatened to divide the

why Maurice became power-hungry and

man wanted to

no one would be able to

and subdue them by wiping out the Belyaevs and their supporters, which were the Babanins and the part of the