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.

in the sport because of her,

the pieces of the heart that she shattered

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

if she was okay, and

married? Did she have children? Was she happy? Those questions

together, and the pain of her abandonment returned to me as I fought back my anger and

mind link so I could gather my thoughts and put my

snapped me out of the deep thought I

said, and it

her first thing in the morning, but many things distracted

had finally called

Lord, Bricks noticed he was trailed, so he

was sad because it

happen now?” I asked her, and

why I

council’s spokesman Jacob Mikhailov.” She said, and I felt relief wash

funding an extremist group that seeks democracy

claims they want to eliminate the lordship and put the council

up names

you all of

him and told him he would

She said, and I realised he wasn’t as loyal as his recruiters might have

did not sound like someone that believed in

well, transport him here secretly for questioning,” I

my hair, feeling

but my heart wasn’t

Susan thing

so much happening at once, and I needed

down and the spinning situation to stop, but I knew it wouldn’t, and it

Jacob Mikhailov arrested, but

anything that would disrupt the games or interfere with the investigations that

traitors to be relaxed

we could catch

documents in the

joined Marcel and Theo at the stables to practice

needed

hard until

to

the cliff and wondered what

when it

looked at me with her green eyes; she was worried; I could tell, but she did not

next to her,

not seen her the whole day,

was I acting like this? What was I worried about? “You locked everyone out of your

alright,” She said to me, and I rubbed her back gently, then began to plate

her, releasing my mind to communicate

arrested Bricks and are bringing him here for

Jacob Mikhailov was the one that sent him the money, and they are funding a group that wants to remove the

her to bring him here so we can interrogate him properly,” I said aloud, and Marcel

about Jacob?” He asked, and

him continue to believe his secret

them to

watch him and study

I

of the

apparent that I wasn’t in high spirits, but

we finished, and Tamia and I got up

and she did not

could not read

not tell if she was angry

entered the room, and she went to the

computer for emails, but there was

she had exited the

quick shower, and she looked

asked me with

relief wash through me because I realised she

wasn’t mad