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.

was a fight, and they said the attack was

Tamia to

he

the attack, and my friends did not know the truth about

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

time since that was the day Sylvester was taking Tamia to visit our mother, and you had already attacked the

had humiliated our mates and the girls in the harem

wished he could take it all

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

killed Jenny and tried to make

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

said, going back to the topic of discussion,

records, she had a child with my

child, but she claimed

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

to this baby?” Leo

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

he said,

if

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

belonged to any of

seemed obsessed with my father,” I said,

say that

enough of

was out of it,” He

journals

Leo, Devin and Dominic asked, and

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

easy to conclude that the woman was unstable.”

son is the king?”

thing is a spillover from

be the same set

too young to

said it was after Jenny’s husband’s death.” Dominic said,

confusing part of the

was David, but after meeting him and his family, I do not

be wrong

think this bastard is worth looking

the arrest, we should pull our

know if he is alive and

but he is likely the one who thinks he is owed because other than that, he has no reason to want to be

doing this?” I asked, and Marcel leaned

of security issues and the rates of forfeitures

it ends this

to the arena tomorrow and make

move in on

longer we stay away from the arena,

relax,” Marcel said, and I agreed with

thought we should play some Polo,

and Max are on their way,” Leo said, and we all laughed,

except for Devin, who didn’t

won’t trouble

they

they are

Max has bigger issues.

and Kyle is paranoid about his warriors,” Leo said

all the help we

are pretty strong warriors

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

plans

to the ladies in the harem, but I doubted

still had eyes

let them

hurried back to my

my way, I saw my mother

have been

wondered why she did not bother

me?” I asked her, and she