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 the attack

Tamia to you,” Marcel

he

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

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

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 tinge of shame

the girls in the harem because of

wished he could take

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

tried to make it seem like it

or elaborating because that would unearth my mother’s secrets,

back to the

she had a child with my father,

been anyone’s child, but she

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

this baby?”

does not know where the baby is,” I

bastard!” he said, and I

if the baby is

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

have belonged to any of her

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

can say

get enough

of it,” He

the journals were

Leo, Devin and Dominic asked, and

we took from her home

easy to conclude that the woman was

if this son is the king?”

a spillover

might be the

is too young to be

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

the confusing part of

family, I do not think he is the

be wrong

bastard

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

if he is alive

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

this?”

of security issues and

it ends

the arena tomorrow

and move in

longer we stay away from the arena, the more alert they will

relax,” Marcel said,

we should play

are on their way,” Leo said, and we

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

won’t trouble

they have

anything, they are

Max has bigger issues.

paranoid about his warriors,” Leo said quickly to put Theodore and

all the help we can

strong warriors and the

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

went over the plans again and decided

and Leo to the ladies in

eyes

them go about their

back

I saw my

have been

why she did not

link me?” I