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.

Tamia tell her, and I wanted to tell her to keep standing,

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

the head of the

her function, but they want me to meet with her during

I am expected to hand her the seal at the golf course,” Lily said

they tell you what their mandate is?

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

the system we run is stylishly autocratic and want to change that.”

of this future senate will be?” Tamia asked her, and she shook

want to ruin a system that benefits her family and implicate her cousin

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

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

doing this is trying to

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

be difficult for them to unseat me, but what if they divide my control? I could not risk allowing Marcel and

been a need to implicate them for a

and this Gezel bitch was making herself useful

drawer and handed

do with it?” Tamia asked,

a release letter for Safia Malek that would be forced into order while the tournament

ask for her release making it

guess; I am not

what they want to use it for once I

Luna Gezel was the

was in a

I should arrest her immediately or allow her to lead us to other people so we could have a wider

we were getting led us away

scornful and jealous of our mates, but with what Lily had just

the way this

I would have to

was the first to be framed; they might

beg for my forgiveness, but the damage had

was closed off to

and I knew

was okay and that what she was doing was

was hard for my lips to form the words, but

the meeting with Lily, and she

in Lily’s eyes, but I did not

a traitor always a

she left, Tamia and I headed

needed to shower and then

our way up why she asked me to accept Lily’s

do the task given to

approval, and this was to show she is

continue giving her the cold shoulder, she won’t give

a strong driving force that pushes people to achieve the impossible; your forgiveness

it

solution, partial would do just fine,” She said, and I pulled

we

and pulled her close

had been meaning to

the booth

arousal and made me want to do things

away when we returned home, but there

neck,

scent

the

but only fated mates could claim each other successfully without a

want to

getting stronger, and I did not understand what was happening, but I had an overwhelming need to claim her and make

I did not want to argue with

she

the shower, and the moment the water came on,

I supported her with

for me, and I could

and intense since