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

ordered them to bring Tamia to you,” Marcel

he would

attack, and my friends did not know the

Jenny woman,

the day Sylvester was taking Tamia to visit our mother, and you had already attacked the estate to take her,” Dominic said, and I could hear the

humiliated our mates and the girls in

wished he

I did not want to elaborate because I knew exactly what

Jenny and tried to make it seem like

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

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

had a child with

but

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

to this baby?”

she does not know where the baby is,”

he said, and

only bastard if the baby is a

only because of

could have belonged to

also seemed obsessed with my father,” I said,

can say that

get enough

of it,” He said,

the journals

Dominic asked, and

of her personal life that we took from her home where she describes all manner of

easy to conclude that

the king?” I said, and Dominic shook his

is a spillover from father’s

the same set

young

said it was after Jenny’s husband’s

the confusing part of the

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

wrong to

bastard is worth looking

should pull our resources together and trace this

need to know if he is alive and where he

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,”

doing this?” I asked, and Marcel

because of security issues and the rates of forfeitures and

ends

go to the arena tomorrow and make our presence

nothing is happening and move in on

from the

them to relax,” Marcel said, and I

we should play some Polo,

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

laughed except for Devin, who didn’t get

trouble Linda

they have

they are very

Max has bigger issues.

and Kyle is paranoid about

the

pretty strong warriors and

said, agreeing with Leo’s choice, and my friends

the plans again and decided

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

still had eyes

them go

hurried back to my

I saw my mother at

must have been

wondered why she did

link me?” I asked her, and