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.

of her, and it has remained my favourite since

the pieces of the heart that she

know how I would act when I saw her, and I did

she was

Was she happy? Those questions crossed my

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

link so I could gather my thoughts and put my

and it snapped me out of the deep thought I was

and it

the morning, but many things distracted me from contacting

finally

Bricks noticed he was trailed,

get involved and arrest him,” she confessed, and I was sad because it meant we wouldn’t learn more

will happen now?” I asked her, and

why I

She said, and I felt relief wash through me as I finally had a name that led to someone on the

an extremist group that seeks democracy and

want to eliminate the lordship and put the council in charge while the

wondered why he quickly gave up names and told Noel

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

tortured him and told him he would

She said, and I realised he wasn’t as loyal

not sound like someone

transport him here secretly for questioning,” I told her and hung

my fingers through my hair, feeling

but my

thing

happening at once, and I needed

needed the noise to quiet down and the spinning situation to

tempted to have Jacob Mikhailov arrested, but I would instead do

anything that would disrupt the games or interfere with the

traitors to be relaxed

we could

attended to some documents in the office

Marcel and Theo at the stables to practice

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

so hard until I was

trying to free my mind of

and wondered what

to the stables when it was dinner

and Tamia looked at me with her green eyes; she was worried;

next to her, and

had not seen her the

I

I rubbed her back gently, then began to plate

to her, releasing my mind to communicate through

are bringing him

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

we can interrogate him properly,” I said aloud, and

about Jacob?” He asked, and I

to believe his

them to make more

place someone to watch him and study his

could help.” I said,

the rest of the

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

we finished, and Tamia and I got up

she

could not

not tell if she was angry or just

entered the room, and she went to the

check my computer for

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

a quick

She asked me with

felt relief wash through me because I realised she was just giving me

mad at