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

he would

friends did not know the

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

seemed plausible at that time since that was the day Sylvester was taking Tamia to visit our mother, and you

our mates and the girls in

wished he could take it all

people want a war badly,” Devin concluded, and I did not want to elaborate because

and tried to make it seem like it

or elaborating because that would

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

those records, she had a child with my

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

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

this baby?” Leo

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

said, and

bastard if the baby is a

not only because of the illicit affair, but we are not sure

could have belonged to any

with my father,” I said,

say that again,

can’t get enough

woman was out of it,”

journals

Devin and Dominic asked, and

that we took from her home where she describes all manner

that the woman was

this son is the king?” I said,

a

be the

young to be the

should be twenty-five twenty-six now since you said it was after Jenny’s husband’s

the confusing part of the

I do

will be wrong to dismiss

think this bastard

the arrest, we should pull our resources together and trace this guy

know if he is alive and

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

we doing this?” I asked, and

because of security issues and the rates of forfeitures and

it ends this

arena

and move in on the

the arena, the more alert they will

them to relax,” Marcel said, and I agreed

we should play

are on their way,” Leo said, and we

didn’t get the joke

won’t trouble Linda and

they have

anything, they are very

Max has bigger issues.

about his

will need all the help we

and Kyle are pretty strong warriors and the

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

over the plans again and decided to

ladies in the harem, but I doubted they were up for

had eyes

them go about their

back to

way, I saw my

must have been

wondered why she did not bother

link me?” I asked