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.

to tell her to keep

Sidorov,” Tamia said, and Lily

of the

her function, but they want

hand her the seal at

they tell you what their mandate is? “Tamia

every top family

stylishly autocratic and want to change

future senate will be?”

a system that benefits her family and implicate her cousin

be asked to go into exile as punishment for not keeping

a way to discuss this with Marcel and

is trying to weaken

of the way and maybe Theo too, I will be left to deal with the uprising

they divide my control? I could not risk allowing Marcel and Theo to be

need to implicate them for a

and this Gezel bitch was

my drawer and handed

to do with it?” Tamia

want to write a release letter for Safia Malek that would be forced into

release making

my guess; I am not

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

was the one that forced Bryce to act against

was in a

her immediately or allow her to lead us to

far, the trails we were getting led us away from

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

might be reacting the way this malicious

I would have to tell Marcel and

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

the opportunity to apologise and beg for my

closed off to

to accept her apology, and I knew she must have her

it was okay and that what

to form the

with Lily, and she

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

a dangerous company

she left, Tamia and

shower and then

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

she would do the task given

and this was to

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

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

us use it to solve

fine,” She said, and I pulled her close

instant we

the door and pulled her close to my

had been meaning to hold her

PDA in the booth

arousal and made

away when we returned home, but there

kissed her neck, and

scent

had spent most of the time battling knight from

go for it, but only fated mates could claim each other successfully without

not want to mar her

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

in my head; I did not want

course, she

entered the shower, and the moment the water

I supported her with my hand as we

for me, and

lovemaking had become more frequent and intense