Shadows of Destiny

I returned to the lounge while Tamia helped settle David and his family in.

I wonder why Dominic did not show up to meet the guy.

I knew my brother was petty like our mother.

He knew Alissa, and she was mean to him and our mother.

It was normal that he would avoid her son and not want to have anything to do with David, but he needed to overcome his hatred and show some love.

I entered the lounge, and Dominic was there.

My guess was right about him not wanting to see David.

“How did it go?” Dominic asked me, and I sat down on the couch.

“You would have known if you were there,” I said, and his face dimmed.

“I can’t have anything to do with that bastard,” Dominic voiced out, and I nodded.

“That bastard is the spitting image of father and seemed pleasant too.

He isn’t interested in our politics and has a lovely mate and three children, who happen to be triplets, by the way,” I explained to Dominic, and I could see the shame in his eyes.

My words rendered him speechless.

Everyone was quiet too.

It was as if I had made the atmosphere seriously awkward.

“We are not obligated or expected to avenge mother, Dominic.

Our parents lived their lives and made mistakes; we do not have to continue the pattern among ourselves,” I said, and he felt ashamed.

“Where is he?” Dominic finally asked.

“Tamia is settling them in,” I told him, and he nodded.

“I will see them later,” he said, and I sighed.

Once the atmosphere was calm, Devin was the first to speak.

“My beta would arrest the people in the south today.

But he said he would do it quietly, so they do not alert the people here,” he explained to me, and I sighed.

“So what will happen after we pick these people up and you become king?” Leo asked a valid question because what we were doing was only going to buy us time, not solve the problem.

“I will give both of you seats on the council, increasing my influence, and we will hunt for someone,” I said, and they were attentive.

I did not know if Dominic knew of Jenny’s son, but this was the time to lay it on the table.

“Jenny Lawrence had an affair with my father.

She also slept with Marcel and Theodore’s father,” I said, and they were shocked.

“This Jenny woman is all over the place,” Devin said, making an obvious observation.

“But that isn’t the issue, really,” I said and sighed.

“We investigated her home a few months ago and found some pretty disturbing things.

The woman had a knack for keeping records.

Official and private records, some of which were disturbing.” I said, and Theodore interrupted me.

“Maybe her involvement in these things is what got her killed.

She might have pissed them off, and they came for her and then tried to make it seem like it was Corrigan.

I am glad we did not act on the information we had,” he said, and Devin exclaimed.

“What attack?” He asked.

“Jenny was killed in the Volkov home in Lucland when she visited lady Stephanie.

a fight, and they said the

you ordered them to bring Tamia to you,” Marcel said,

course, he

not orchestrate the attack, and my friends did not know the

this Jenny woman, let alone kill her?” Devin asked, and

since that was the day Sylvester was taking Tamia to visit our mother, and you had already attacked the estate to take her,” Dominic said, and

mates and the girls in the harem because of

he could

badly,” Devin concluded, and I did not want to elaborate because I knew exactly what

to

or elaborating because that would unearth my mother’s secrets, and

keep records,” I said, going back to the

she had a child with my father, or so she

child, but she

she occupied his seat on the council so that it would have been a scandal, and she would have lost

happened to this baby?” Leo asked, and I

father took the baby from her, and she does

he said,

bastard if the baby is a

since father claimed his mother, but Jenny’s child is a bastard not only because of the illicit affair, but we are not sure if the child is truly a

could have belonged to any

also seemed obsessed with my father,”

can say

get enough

woman was out of it,”

the journals

Devin and Dominic asked,

of her personal life that we took from her home where she

conclude that the woman was unstable.”

son is the king?” I

thing is a

might be the same

too young to

since you said it was after Jenny’s husband’s

is the confusing part

thought it was David, but after meeting him and his family, I do

will be wrong to dismiss

this bastard is worth looking

pull our resources together

know if he

and I am sorry to say this, but he is likely the one who thinks he is owed

doing this?” I asked, and

because of security issues

it ends this

will go to the arena tomorrow and make

happening and move in on the

from the arena, the more alert

to relax,” Marcel said, and I agreed with their devised

we should play some

on their way,” Leo said, and

Devin, who didn’t get the joke because he wasn’t

trouble Linda

they

they

Max has bigger issues.

and Kyle is paranoid about his

need all the help

strong warriors and the best the

with Leo’s choice,

plans

Leo to the ladies in the

had eyes only

I let them go about their

back to

my way, I saw my mother at

have been

she did not bother

me?” I asked her,