Shadows of Destiny

Dilemma ~Sylvester~ I remained speechless in my office, and my mother stared at me.

She looked genuinely worried, and I knew why.

I wanted to speak, but she interrupted me.

“That girl has been through a lot, and she loves you with all her heart, Sylvester, do not break Tamia’s heart,” She said with tears forming in her eyes.

“I used to want a daughter so badly, but I never had one.

Tamia feels like my blood.” She said and wiped away her tears.

“I love her, Sylvester, and I love what you two have.

Please,” She said and put her hand together to beg me.

“Do not break my Tamia’s heart.

I know Susan is your first love, and you never got over her, but please; Tamia deserves better.

Your wedding and claiming ceremony is seven weeks from now; please do not disappoint her and me.

If you do, I will leave with her and my grandchild, and I will forget that you are my son,” She said with conviction in her eyes, and I knew she wasn’t lying.

3 “Why do you think I will be conflicted where Susan is concerned?” I asked her, and she composed herself.

“Because you keep your promises, Sylvester.

You swore you would never settle down until she came back.

You said you would find her and bring her back to make her your luna.

You have remained single all this while, and that bitch Pamela said everything isn’t set in stone.

Please, my son.

Susan gave up on you and ran away.

She should have hung around, fated or not.

She should have waited to see what you would do, but she had no faith in you and left you alone with nothing but a letter and a broken heart.

Do not destroy Tamia for her sake.

I plead with you.

I know you had a strong feeling for that girl, but she isn’t worth it.

Please,” She said, and I felt terrible that my mother would think I would hurt Tamia for Susan’s sake.

“I love Tamia, and she is carrying my baby.

I can never hurt her,” I said, and she nodded.

She did not believe me, it was in her eyes, and it annoyed me a bit.

“I am nothing like my father, mother.

I will never hurt the woman I love.

Tamia has no family but us; I can never be cruel.

I will die without her,” I said, and my mother studied my eyes and nodded.

“That was all I came to tell you; I will take my leave now,” she said and got up.

“Mother,” I called her attention, and she stopped to listen to me.

“Do not tell her about Susan.

Allow me to do it myself, please,” I pleaded with her, and she hesitated before nodding, and then she left.

I sat at my desk, and my heart was still racing.

Why would Susan come now after eleven years? Why will she come to the north? Why would Nikolay Sullivan come with her? Was she playing on the Polo team? I remembered how we learned horse riding and played Polo and Polocrosse together.

an interest in the sport because of her, and it has remained my

return now when I had picked up the pieces of the heart that she shattered and moved on?

how I would act when I saw her, and I did not know how

doing, if she

have children? Was she

remembered everything we did together, and the pain of her abandonment returned to me as I fought back my anger and tears sitting in the

from the mind link so I could gather my thoughts and put my emotions

me out of the deep

and it was

her first thing in the morning, but many

had finally

Lord, Bricks noticed he was trailed, so he tried to

get involved and arrest him,” she confessed, and I was sad

I asked

is why I

She said, and I felt relief

extremist group that seeks democracy and Liberation,” She said, and I was

the lordship and put the council in charge while the regions would be ruled by governors,”

up names and told Noel their

tell you all of this?” I asked her, and she

him and told him

She said, and I realised he

like someone that believed in

here secretly for

my hair, feeling frustrated and

was good news, but my heart wasn’t

thing had destabilised

happening at once, and

to stop,

have Jacob Mikhailov arrested, but I would instead

games or

the traitors to be

we could catch

attended to some documents in the

Marcel and Theo

needed the thought

hard until I

and remained outside, trying to free my mind of

the cliff and wondered what I would

to the stables when it was

with her green eyes; she was worried; I could tell,

to sit next to her, and she

had not seen her the

was I acting like this? What was I worried about? “You locked

me, and I rubbed her back

I said to her, releasing my mind to communicate through

arrested Bricks and are bringing him here for

are funding a group that wants to remove

we can interrogate him properly,”

He asked, and

continue to believe his secret

them to make more

to watch him and study his

could help.” I said, and

the rest of

apparent that I wasn’t in high spirits, but I tried to

finished, and Tamia and I

she did not

not

if she was angry or just

the room, and

my computer for emails, but there

was done, she had exited the bathroom in her night dress

a quick shower, and she looked

with a

felt relief wash through me because I realised she

mad