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

to bring Tamia to you,” Marcel said, and Devin

he

my friends did not

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

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

girls

am sure he wished he

did not

tried to make it seem like it

point explaining or elaborating because that would unearth my mother’s

going back to the topic of discussion,

to those records, she had a child with

but

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

to this baby?”

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

said,

the only bastard if the baby is

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

could have belonged to any

seemed obsessed with my father,” I said, and Theodore

say that

can’t get enough

out of it,” He said,

the journals were

Devin and Dominic

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

easy to conclude that the woman was

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

a spillover

might be the same

is too young to be the

twenty-six now since you said it was after Jenny’s husband’s death.” Dominic said, and I

the confusing part

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

wrong

think this bastard is worth looking

arrest, we should pull our resources together and

know if he is

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 added,

we doing this?” I asked,

cut short because of security issues and the rates of

it ends

to the arena tomorrow and make our

and move in on the

we stay away from the arena, the more alert

them to relax,” Marcel said, and I agreed

should

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

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

won’t trouble Linda and

they

anything, they

Max has bigger issues.

his pack’s predicament, and Kyle is paranoid about

the help we can

and Kyle are pretty strong warriors and the

I said, agreeing with Leo’s choice, and my friends had no

went over the plans again and decided to

on introducing Devin and Leo to the ladies in the harem, but I doubted

eyes

I let them go about their

hurried back to

my way, I saw my

must have been

she did not

didn’t you link me?” I