Shadows of Destiny

A Partial Claim ~Sylvester~ We returned home, and Tamia and I went to our bedroom to change.

The moment we entered our bedroom, I pulled her close to me.

“We should change and have dinner with everyone, deal with the Lily situation and then maybe you will choose to spend time with me tonight instead of your friends,” Tamia said to me and moved away.

I could smell her arousal, but she wanted me to work for it.

I understood her point and quickly changed into something simple.

I wanted to get the dinner over and return to spend time with my woman.

We headed downstairs, and I was surprised to see Katya at the table.

She looked nervous, but Tamia smiled at her, making her relax.

Glenda, whom I had banned from the table, was there too, and I looked at Dominic, who shrugged.

Not wanting to embarrass him, I let it rest.

“Hope you will be of best behaviour tonight, Glenda?” Tamia asked her, and she stood up and greeted Tamia and me respectfully.

I knew it was a pretence, and when I looked at my mother, I saw her rolling her eyes at what Glenda did.

Katya was sitting next to her.

“I invited her to join us,” My mother said quickly, and as much as I wanted to pretend not to know what she was doing, I knew exactly what she was doing.

She was trying to separate Dominic from Glenda.

Honestly, I was in support because the girl was just toxic.

1 I somehow believed Glenda had forced herself to join us, leaving Dominic to take responsibility for it.

It was just so low of her.

Avery and Marcel joined us; they looked like they had done something before coming down.

They smelled like it, and I looked at Tamia, who looked away from me, knowing exactly what she did.

Linda and Theo joined us, and the butler soon ushered Lily in.

She was very nervous and was made to sit next to Katya.

Dinner was served, and we ate quickly.

I wanted it over with.

“The game against the East was brutal,” Dominic said, and we laughed.

He wasn’t in on the plan.

“It was intentional,” Tamia told him, and I watched it click in his eyes.

“My, I learned those alphas were in the infirmary for a while, especially the red- haired, Nikson,” he said, trying to remember Kyle’s name, and we all laughed.

Honestly, beating him up physically and stripping him of his alpha status would have been the best punishment, but we did not want something that would cause a war between us, so we had to settle.

1 While we discussed the events, I wondered what Leo wanted to discuss with me.

It must have been important for him to go through the trouble of signing up for a sport in which he had no skill.

I also commend him because he played well.

We would have still won without the brutality, but the fact that they scored some points meant they put some effort into it.

After dinner, Tamia and I led Lily to the mini office in the duplex.

She was nervous, and she ought to be.

I wasn’t over her betraying and trying to ruin me.

If it weren’t for the fact that we needed her cooperation to make headway on the matter, I would have ensured she faced the ultimate punishment for treason: death.

I was sure no one would dispute it, not even her family.

tell her, and I wanted to tell her to keep

me about Gezel Sidorov,” Tamia said, and Lily adjusted herself in the

head of the northern

function, but they want me to meet

so I am expected to hand her the seal

their mandate is?

top family in the regions,

we run is stylishly autocratic and want to change

you know who the leader of this future senate will be?” Tamia

needed to understand why Gezel Sidorov would want to ruin a system that benefits her family

Sidorovs, Marcel would be asked to go into exile as punishment for

to find a way to discuss this with Marcel and Theo because they must look into the

this is

out of the way and maybe Theo too, I will be

they divide my control? I could not

been a need to implicate

this Gezel bitch was making herself useful to

my drawer and handed three seals

they want to do with it?” Tamia asked, handing the seal

release letter for Safia Malek that

release making it seem like

is just my guess; I am

to use it for once I deliver it to Luna Gezel,” Lily said, and

was the one that

in

to lead us to other people

the trails we were getting led us away from the

our mates, but with what Lily had just told me, the

might be reacting the way this malicious group want them to

knew I would have to

to know because he was the first to be framed; they might

the opportunity to apologise and beg for

was closed off

her apology, and I knew she must have her

reluctantly smiled at Lily and told her it was okay and that what she

hard for my lips to form

ended the meeting with Lily, and she

see the regret in Lily’s eyes,

a traitor always a dangerous company to

Tamia and I

needed to shower and then

her on our way up why she asked me to accept

would do the task given

obviously seeking your approval, and this

giving her the cold shoulder, she won’t give us the result we want because she will have given

force that pushes people to achieve the impossible; your forgiveness and affection is the impossible goal her hope drives her

us use it to solve this

do just fine,” She said, and I pulled her close to

we

pulled her close to

been meaning to hold her

PDA in the

and made me want to do things

home, but there was no

kissed her neck,

citrus scent

the

not know if I should go for it, but only fated mates

did not want

cord connecting us was getting stronger, and I did not understand what was happening, but I had an overwhelming need to

my head; I did not want to

course, she was our

the moment the

around me, I supported her with my hand as

a strong need for me, and I could feel

become more frequent and intense since she got