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

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

the head of the northern

want me to

to hand her the seal at the

they tell you what their mandate is? “Tamia asked her, and

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

we run is stylishly autocratic and want to change

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

understand why Gezel Sidorov would want to ruin a system that benefits her family and implicate her cousin in the

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

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

this is trying to weaken

maybe Theo too, I will

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

a need to implicate them for

smartest route, and this Gezel bitch was making

my drawer and

do with it?”

want to write a release letter for Safia Malek that would

to ask for her release making it seem like

my guess; I am not

to use it for once I deliver it to

Gezel was the one

was in

or allow her to lead us to other people so we could have a wider picture of what

we were getting led us away from the

could understand Pamela and Joan being scornful and jealous of our mates, but with

might be reacting the way this malicious group

I would have to tell

first to be framed; they might try to

to apologise and beg for my forgiveness, but the damage had

was closed off to

and I

okay and that what she was doing was

to form the words,

the meeting with

could see the regret in Lily’s eyes, but I did

a traitor always a dangerous company to

she left, Tamia and I headed to

shower and then

up why she asked

would do the task given

your approval, and

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

pushes people to achieve the impossible; your

it to

full solution, partial would do just fine,” She said, and

we

closed the door and pulled her close

had been meaning to hold her

in the booth was

with her arousal and made me want to do things to

got away when we returned home, but there was no escaping

neck,

scent drew

had spent most of the

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

want to mar her

getting stronger, and I did not understand what was happening, but I had an

I did not want to

course, she was

entered the shower, and the moment the water came on,

supported her

had a strong need for

more frequent and intense since she got pregnant, and