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.

fight, and they said the

to

he

friends did not know the truth about

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

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

the girls in the harem because

am sure he wished he could take it all back

war badly,” Devin concluded, and I did not

killed Jenny and tried to make it seem like it was

that would unearth my mother’s secrets,

keep records,” I said, going back to

had a child with my

but she claimed it

so that it would have been a scandal, and she would have lost the Babanin’s

happened to this baby?” Leo asked, and

my father took the baby from her, and she does not know where the baby is,”

he said, and

only bastard if the baby is a

father claimed his mother, but Jenny’s child is a bastard not only because of the illicit affair,

belonged

seemed obsessed with my

can say that again,

get enough of those

was out of it,” He

the journals

Leo, Devin and Dominic

that we took from

conclude that the

if this son is the king?”

is a spillover from father’s

the same

is too young to

said it was after Jenny’s

confusing part of the

and his family, I do not think he is the one.” I

will be wrong to dismiss

think this bastard is worth

the arrest, we should pull our resources together and

need to know if he is alive

guy must have a serious sense of entitlement, and I am sorry to say this, but he is likely the one who thinks he is owed because other than

we doing this?” I asked,

of security issues and the rates

it ends this

arena tomorrow and

happening and move in on the

away from the arena,

said, and I agreed with their

we should play some Polo,

are on their way,” Leo said, and we all laughed, remembering what happened

didn’t get the joke because

won’t trouble Linda

know they

they

Max has bigger issues.

and Kyle is paranoid about his warriors,” Leo

need all the help

and Kyle are pretty strong warriors and the best the east can

team,” I said, agreeing with Leo’s choice, and my

went over the plans again and

Leo to the ladies in the harem, but I doubted they

still had eyes only for

I let them go

hurried back to

way, I saw my mother

must have

why she did not bother to

you link me?” I asked her,