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.

sport because of

up the pieces of the heart that

I saw her,

she was doing, if she was okay,

Did she have children? Was she happy? Those questions crossed my

to me as I fought back my anger and tears

so I could

it snapped me out of the

I said, and it

in the morning, but many things distracted

finally called

he was

was sad because it

happen now?” I asked

why

works for the council’s spokesman Jacob Mikhailov.” She said, and I felt relief wash through me as I finally had a name that led

that seeks democracy

lordship and put the council in charge while the regions would

quickly gave up names and told Noel their

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

tortured him and told him he

for a lesser sentence in exchange for information.” She said, and I realised he wasn’t as loyal as his recruiters might have

like someone that believed in the

secretly for questioning,” I told her and

through my hair, feeling frustrated and

was good news, but

thing

so much happening at once, and

to quiet down and the spinning situation to

was tempted to have Jacob Mikhailov arrested, but I

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

to be relaxed and

could catch

in the office and went

and Theo at the stables to

plagued my mind, and I needed the thought of her to fade

practised so hard until

lunch and remained outside, trying to free my

by the cliff and wondered

back to the stables when it was dinner time, showered, and

Tamia looked at me with her green eyes; she was worried; I could tell, but

to sit next to her, and she

seen her the whole

like this? What was I worried about? “You

rubbed her back gently,

said to her, releasing my mind to

have arrested Bricks and are bringing him here

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

here so we can

Jacob?” He asked, and I

“Let him continue to believe his

to

place someone to watch him and

I said,

ate the rest of the meal in

high spirits,

Tamia and I got

she did not

not read

was angry

room, and she went to the

to check my computer for emails,

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

taken a quick shower, and she

me with a smile,

through me because I realised she was just

wasn’t mad