Shadows of Destiny

From The Top

~Sylvester~

Liam looked very afraid, staring at me from the table. His tears flowed freely, and I did not know how to make him comfortable.

Looking at him now, I could see his father’s features. I cleared my throat and asked that they bring him some juice.

“Have they been feeding you?” I asked him, and he nodded reluctantly.

I figured he might not have been eating. I felt sorry for him.

I could not be as cruel as I intended to be, knowing his age and the fact that he might be misguided.

“How about we start from the top,” I told him and narrowed my eyes, looking at him.

“I know little of the back story and how you pretended to be kidnapped so your father would do their bidding. I know everything, so I would advise you to be honest. The offence you have committed is treason, and I am sure you are a smart young man to know the repercussions of your crime. If you tell me the truth and it yields something, I will waive the death penalty and life imprisonment. You are too young for it. Do not let this matter escalate beyond this room. I will quietly send you home to your father if you tell me the truth, young man. Today some people threatened my mate, so I am not feeling kind,” I told him. He nodded quickly and swallowed.

Someone brought the juice, and they helped Liam take a sip. I could see some relief in his eyes which meant they were not feeding him. Knowing he was a minor made me feel bad, and I asked Theodore to

look into the prisoners’ feeding.

It was wrong to starve them. Anyone in the estate’s dungeons is awaiting trial and is just a suspect. It was wrong to treat them as convicted criminals.

“I am listening,” I said, giving Liam to the floor, and he nodded immediately.

“About two years ago, I started chatting online with a girl called Elaine. I received an email one day inviting me to d******d an app called Friendzone and make new friends. It wasn’t in my spam box. It was in my inbox, and I wondered who must have sent it because it did not look like an ad. Being a lonely child eager to make friends, I ignored all the warning signs and d******ded this app. It was called Friendzone. I would later find out that the app was private and it belonged to an organisation. After d******ding the app, I was asked to register my real name and upload my ID to start making friends. As eager as I was, I wasn’t stupid, so I joined in as a guest with just my first name and nothing more.

I received a lot of friend requests, and I was excited.

Unfortunately, I could only accept the request to interact with them if I was fully registered. So I went against my better judgement and registered fully on the app.

Uploading all that was required of me. My full name, ID, phone number, age, address, everything. They asked for everything, and I foolishly gave it.

True to the conditions, I was verified and allowed to accept the requests; I did so and messaged everyone that sent me a friend request. There were about twenty-three altogether,” He said and looked at me with shame.

“I felt I had hit the jackpot for someone that did not have any friends to having twenty-three potential friends. I felt like I wasn’t a weirdo anymore, and maybe I had finally found a community that I could belong to,” he said and bowed his head to show remorse.

I needed to know about her. She was an orphan who lived alone in Gad

also see that he slowly realised what might have happened to him.

feelings for me. I did not need to overthink it. She was a huge upgrade, and I did not want to lose her. She asked and pleaded for me to find a way so we

this while I thought I came up with the idea alone, but now I realise she put it there,” he said,

safe for someone like me. You had just conquered what

if it was anyone else, it would be okay, but as the son of the head Alpha of the

he was being unfair, and I threw some tantrums. I told him I had gotten admission to study there, and that was where

not oppose me; she encouraged

caved, and I was off to

not be together because my father had placed me in a hostel where they were required to put me

living condition there wasn’t really great, and Elaine and I would often hang

would tell me the people’s history in Gad and how your father ruined the

were the reason she was orphaned because of the war you fought to conquer the rest of the west. I believed her, and soon I started

went to heal. It was also a place for a selected few. I felt it was weired because people

had no last name, just Moses, and he was an

and how it had plagued our world. I was made to believe that other than the north, the rest

their homes, families and lives

was what we needed to ensure the safety of our

honestly saw them

seemed like someone from whom everything had been taken, and

soon, I

my mother what I had learned, and she would tell me not to tell my father as it could lead to trouble. I wonder why she

somehow had a notion that the only thing that was protecting them from your

signed,

was that of the

the eastern leader’s mate for yourself, and they told me you could do the

every region had suffered

because people refused to agree to your requests. They made you seem like a monster, and the truth was, soon, I wasn’t torn about it anymore; I believed

started looking more like our world would be better if you and your officers were no longer in power and the council was the

faith and asked them how I could help. They said being the future heir of my family,

I wanted to prove myself badly. Moses teased me about living in a hostel under my father’s watch, and they

like a child, so I