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 attack was from

bring Tamia to you,” Marcel

course, he

friends did not

woman, let alone kill her?” Devin

you had already attacked the

and the girls in the

he wished he could

a war badly,” Devin concluded, and I did not

killed Jenny and tried to

no point explaining or elaborating because that would unearth

said, going back to the topic of discussion, and

to those records, she had a child with my father, or so

could have been anyone’s child, but she claimed it was

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

baby?” Leo

does not know where the baby is,” I said, and Dominic

said, and

bastard if the baby is a

child is a bastard not only because of the illicit affair, but we are not

could have belonged to

seemed obsessed with my father,”

say that again,

can’t get enough of those

of it,” He

journals were

Devin and Dominic asked, and I

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

conclude that the woman

what if this son is the king?” I said, and Dominic shook

thing is a spillover from

might be the same set

young to be the

said it

confusing part of the

was David, but after meeting him and his family, I do not think he is the one.” I said, and

wrong

this bastard is worth

we should pull our resources together

he

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 that, he has no reason to want to be king,” Leo

doing this?” I asked, and Marcel leaned

have been cut short because of security issues and the rates of forfeitures and

ends

arena tomorrow and make our presence

is happening and move in on the

the arena, the

need them to relax,” Marcel said, and I

thought we should

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

laughed except for Devin, who didn’t get the joke because

trouble Linda and

they

anything, they are

Max has bigger issues.

Ramsey is behind his pack’s predicament, and Kyle is paranoid about his

need all the help

are pretty strong warriors and the best the

agreeing with Leo’s choice, and my friends had

the plans again and decided to

on introducing Devin and Leo to the ladies in the harem,

eyes only

them go about

hurried back

my way, I saw my mother at my

have

did not bother to link

I asked her, and she