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.

and they said

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

he

and my friends did not know the truth

would 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,” Dominic

and the girls in the harem because of the

he wished he

concluded, and I did not want to

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

records,” I said, going back to the topic of

she had a child with my father, or so

but

the council so that it would have been a scandal, and she would have lost the Babanin’s seat,” I said, and they were

to this baby?”

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

he said, and

the only bastard if the

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

baby could have belonged to any of her

seemed obsessed with my father,” I

can say

get enough of

was out of

journals were

Leo, Devin and Dominic

that we took from her home where she describes all

conclude that the woman was

king?”

is a spillover

might be the same

young to

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

the confusing part of

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

be wrong to dismiss

bastard is

should pull our

know if he is alive and where he

sorry to say this, but he is likely the one who thinks he is owed because other than that, he has no reason

how are we doing this?” I asked, and Marcel

security issues and the rates of forfeitures and

it ends

to the arena tomorrow and make

and move in on the

longer we stay away from the arena, the more alert

to relax,” Marcel said, and I

should play some Polo,

their way,” Leo said, and we

for Devin, who didn’t get the joke

won’t trouble Linda

they have

they are very

Max has bigger issues.

paranoid about his warriors,”

all the help we

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

will make a great team,” I said, agreeing with Leo’s choice, and my friends had

over the plans

and Leo to the ladies in the harem, but I doubted they were up

still had eyes

let them go

hurried back

I saw my

must have

she did not bother

I asked her, and