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.

they said the attack was from

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

he

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

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

Tamia to visit our mother, and you had already attacked the estate to take her,”

the girls in the

he could

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

had killed Jenny and tried to make it seem like it

point explaining or elaborating because that would unearth my mother’s secrets, and I could not

liked to keep records,” I said, going back to the topic of discussion, and they were

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

child, but she claimed it

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

this baby?” Leo

does not know where the baby is,”

said, and I

bastard if the baby

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

have belonged to any of

my father,” I said, and

say that

get enough

woman was out of it,”

the journals were

Leo, Devin and Dominic asked, and

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

easy to conclude that

king?” I

thing is a spillover

be the same

too young to be

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

the confusing part of the

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

wrong to dismiss

this bastard is worth

we should pull our resources together and trace this guy

need to know if he is alive and where he

king 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

this?” I asked, and

security issues and the rates of forfeitures

it ends this

the arena tomorrow and make our

is happening and move in on the traitors

the arena, the more alert they

them to relax,” Marcel said, and I

we should play

and we all

who didn’t get the joke because

trouble

know they

anything, they are

Max has bigger issues.

pack’s predicament, and Kyle is paranoid about his warriors,”

will need all the help we

pretty strong warriors and the best the

we will make a great team,” I said, agreeing with Leo’s choice, and my friends had no choice but

plans again and decided to

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

still had eyes only

let them go

back to

I saw

have been

she did not

I asked her, and