Shadows of Destiny

Sniffing Them Out ~Tamia~ My discussion with Alpha Jake was intense, but I was glad we were able to come to an understanding.

I knew I was a bit stern, but I needed to clarify my point.

I also needed him to know I did him a big favour by not pushing Sylvester to investigate my poisoning.

The fact that I was pregnant when it occurred would have summed it up as treason.

Deep down, I hoped our plan worked out so we could plan our weddings peacefully.

Alpha Jake seemed sad after our discussion, and Stephanie came to join us.

Her dark circles were gone, and she was in high spirits.

She also looked great.

“I hope I did not take too long?” She asked, sitting beside Alpha Jake and smiling at us.

It was awkward seeing that she was the only one smiling after the difficult conversation I had with Alpha Jake.

Stephanie soon realised she was the only one in high spirits and stopped smiling.

“What happened?” she asked, and even though I did not want to speak about it, Alpha Jake volunteered the answer.

“Luna Tamia believes my daughter Iris must have tried to kill her with poison to get back at your son for not choosing her, and also, she believes she might be working for the uprising, so she asked me to bring her for questioning,” he said, summing it up.

Stephanie nodded.

“The poisoning part is true.

She was poisoned in your pack, Jake.

I saw it.

We had to bring a doctor to flush her system.” Stephanie said, and the fear in Jake’s eyes was more pronounced.

He had secretly hoped it was a coincidence, but hearing Stephanie say the same thing made him realise it might not be a coincidence.

“I do not know what I would do if she is guilty.

She is my only daughter,” he confessed, and Stephanie touched his hand gently.

“They are all grown, Jake.

We have done our best by raising them and giving them the best.

We have taught them right from wrong and tried to guide them.

We should not blame ourselves if they choose to part from teachings in adulthood.

At the end of the day, they are independent of us and will continue to exist when we are gone.

The best we can do is wish them the best and pray they learn from their mistakes.

We, as parents, cannot give more than we have given.

You shouldn’t feel guilty for this, Jake.

You tried.

If Iris decides to be like her mother, then it isn’t your fault,” she said, trying to calm him down, but it did not work.

The man was in knots.

“I think it is time to have Liam help identify the people that threatened him,” I said, standing up and trying to avoid the awkward situation.

Everyone agreed, and I linked Kappa Wilson to help line up everyone in the estate so Liam could sniff the culprits out.

It took thirty minutes for Wilson to accomplish it, and soon he linked me to inform me the task was done.

I got up and asked everyone to follow me to the eastern garden, where everyone was waiting.

We walked towards the garden silently, and I prayed it would yield something.

We needed to catch as many people as possible to either force the leader out or make them go silent.

Either outcome was better than what was happening.

Arriving at the garden, I was surprised to see many people, along with the trophies, lined up to be checked.

They looked worried and puzzled.

Lunas in service looked at me scornfully, and I did not

with the

and me as traitors, but they did not know our full story, and we did

I could see was a bunch of jealous Lunas

Marcel or Theodore had ordered they join them in bed, they would

laugh at the scorn

the garden, and I could see him properly for the first

was indeed

his mother do this to him? How could this Kingman allow this? As things were, if this leader ever succeeded,

with treasonous acts was

voicing my opinion to the bastard

murmur at

genuinely

them, and they reluctantly

noise and the person would be thrown

not be

disturbance, am I clear?” Linda asked, and there was complete silence, indicating they got

told me that Sylvester required Liam to come to

Leo and Devin were

put aside their differences and find common ground to

Liam with them and return

They took him away.

because I still

planning to be nice where the bitch was

she did to her son, I knew she could not be trusted and did

planned on making

to be unapologetic about

Liam?”

Devin

hear directly from him,” I linked her

three of them are crazy

to overlook their differences and work together? I know Leo has it bad and that Devin guy does not seem

Poor Sylvester.

having to lean on the two men likely to hate him the most for

Jake asked me, interrupting Avery and me, and

I said, and

looking at us

why he isn’t in

involved, and they used him to control his father and the

I told the man, and his eyes widened with

mean it,” He said in shock, and

bitch decided to use her son in the most

alive is that he is young,” I told Jake, and

bitch Amy had been

like that, you

to share her opinion and make you

her a couple of times, and she gave

before leaping, but they say

situation,” she said, and I was unhappy about her words, but they were

would be regarded as traitors, and the entire Zakharov family would be exiled

also means Christian would have to step

woman had

if Sylvester succeeds and is installed as the

was riding on Leo and Devin agreeing to make Sylvester king and working

men lined up in the garden, and I hoped for their sakes that none of them was guilty because I planned on

to

fish them out using their scent; we made it seem like he would be by looking at the eyes so that the

staff, looking at them and secretly sniffing their

moved through most of them, and none

the women in the

got to a dark-haired eastern

was

I

selected a western

bring them out yet until

extra thirty

eyes of the eastern woman and the western

thought they had scaled

me

I was about to do to them was a bit sick, but I wanted to see joy drain from

to the cell, and I asked Wilson to

to do it, and I kept the people