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.

wanted to tell her to keep

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

is the head of

her function, but they want me to meet with her

to hand her

their mandate is? “Tamia asked her, and she

council would be the highest seat and every top family in the regions, and the packs would have a

run is stylishly autocratic and want to

the leader of this future senate

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

the Sidorovs, Marcel would be asked to go into exile as punishment for not keeping his

with Marcel and Theo because they must look into

doing this is trying to weaken my

too, I

what if they divide my control? I could not risk allowing Marcel and Theo

has been a need to implicate them for

smartest route, and this Gezel bitch was making herself useful

drawer and handed three seals to

know what they want to do with it?” Tamia asked, handing

Safia Malek that would be forced into order while the tournament

ask for her release making

guess; I am not

cue me in on what they want to use it for once I deliver

this Luna Gezel was the one

in a

her immediately or allow her to lead us to other people so we could have a

getting led

could understand Pamela and Joan being scornful and jealous of our mates, but with what Lily had just told me, the council might be

be reacting the way this

would have to tell Marcel and

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

to apologise and beg for my forgiveness, but the damage

was closed off

her apology, and I knew she must have

and that

my lips to

meeting with Lily, and she

the regret in Lily’s eyes,

a dangerous company

she left, Tamia and I headed to our

shower and then

our way up why she asked

the task given

is obviously seeking your approval, and this was to

giving her the cold shoulder, she won’t give us the result we want

pushes people to achieve the impossible; your forgiveness and affection is the impossible goal her

us use it to

not a full solution, partial would do just fine,”

we

pulled her close to my

had been meaning to

PDA in the

with her arousal and made me want to do things to

when we returned home, but there was

neck, and

citrus scent

spent most of the time battling knight from

I should go for it, but only fated

not want

what was happening, but I had an overwhelming need to claim her and

did not

course, she was our

entered the shower, and the moment the water came

supported her with my hand as we

had a strong need for me, and I could feel

become more frequent and intense since she