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, and it has remained

now when I had picked up the pieces of the heart that

when I saw her, and I did not

she was okay, and what she

married? Did she have children? Was she happy?

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

link so I could gather my thoughts and

it snapped me

I said, and it

her first thing in the morning,

finally called

was trailed, so he

and I was

I asked her,

why I called

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

seeks democracy and Liberation,” She said, and

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

gave up names and told Noel their

all of this?” I

him

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

sound like someone that believed in

here secretly for questioning,”

my hair, feeling

but my heart

thing had destabilised

much happening at once,

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

Jacob Mikhailov arrested, but

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

to be relaxed and follow their

could catch

in the office and

and Theo at the stables to

mind, and I needed the

so hard

to free my mind of what was

sat by the cliff and wondered what

back to the stables when it

at me with her green eyes; she

sit next to her, and she

had not seen her the

like this? What was I worried about? “You

and I rubbed

her, releasing my mind to

are bringing him here for

the money, and they are funding a group that wants to remove the lordship, place

bring him here so we can interrogate him properly,” I

asked, and

continue to

want them to make more

someone to watch him and

could help.” I said, and

the rest of the meal in

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

and I got up to

and she did

not read

not tell if she was angry

the room, and she

check my computer for emails, but there

she had exited

had taken a quick shower, and she

me with a

me because I

mad at