Shadows of Destiny

~Tamia~ I was glad when Sylvester returned home.

I felt him snuggle into bed with me in the early hours of the morning, and the fact that he was home with me made me thankful.

It was hard to express my fear.

I woke up early and snuck out of bed.

Sylvester was still asleep, so I decided to let him rest.

I freshened up in the bathroom and headed out to speak to Stephanie, Katya and Nicole about the wedding plans.

The truth was we couldn’t continue to put it off; we needed all hands on deck, and those were the ones available.

Due to my last experience, I did not want to trust the planner without having people there to watch her if she wasn’t getting it right.

I knocked on Stephanie’s door, and it took a while for her to let me in.

I stepped in and could pick up Jake’s scent in the room but kept it to myself.

So much for being just friends with the Alpha.

Stephanie seemed to be getting her groove back.

I maintained a stoic face and went to sit on the couch.

“Good morning, Luna,” I said, and Stephanie smiled at me.

“Out with it, Tamia; I know you smell him,” she said, and I laughed, then made a lip-sealing gesture, and she smiled at me.

“What can I help you with?” She said, knowing I must have needed something to show up in her room the way I did.

“I need you to help plan our wedding; of course, Katya and Nicole will help, but since we are too occupied to do anything, I was hoping you could do it for us,” I said, and she beamed at me.

“I get to plan my sons’ wedding; why not?” she said, and I was thrilled.

I got off the couch and hugged her.

Stephanie was slightly off, so it hit me that Jake might still be in that room.

I decided to take my leave.

“Do you mind telling Katya and Nicole on our behalf? Katya should be happy; it’s her wedding, too,” I said, and she nodded, wanting me to leave the room badly.

I got to the door and touched the knob.

“Tell Alpha Jake that he should make sure he rounds up and make himself available in Sylvester’s lounge before the lord wakes up,” I said, and Stephanie sighed.

“Oh, Tamia,” she said, and I giggled and opened the door.

I stepped out of Stephanie’s room, still giggling.

Done with it, I returned to my bedroom to rest.

I went to lie down, and soon I fell asleep too.

I woke up later, and it was almost noon.

Sylvester was awake, and he was getting dressed.

“You are finally up,” I said, and he giggled.

“You are the one that was sleeping, Green-eyes,” he said, and I shook my head.

“I woke up, freshened up and returned to bed,” I said, and he looked at me and smiled.

I got off the bed and handed him a paper with the list of names on Amanda’s flash drive.

I handed it to Sylvester, and he glanced through the content.

“Those are the list of names we got from the flash drive.

Maybe we can use it to question the prisoners,” I said, and he sighed.

“For now, I won’t be able to question them.

They have requested to be brought before the council.

A request I have deliberately denied according to our plan,” He said, and I was surprised.

if we can’t question them and get to the bottom of

“Very useful.

arrest would force the council to reach out to

regional Leaders to vote me out of

leaders, who are now my allies, would raise a bill for reasons known to them that I should be installed as

a back and forth, and the elite families will be asked to resolve

understood that was part of the

I did not want to push it, so I

we wait for the council to reach out to you?” I asked him, and he

time since

want to

a picnic, and make love under the stars,” he said, and

that a

It was most welcomed.

approve,” he said,

lounge to catch up with everyone, then we will start our

searched my eyes for something and then

will be free of these people and live in peace,” He said, touching my

could not wait for him to

blue moon, but it was worth

his lounge while I searched

are you?”

a tea party in the eastern

and I were bored and decided to hang

Nicole are here

sister-in-law is the life of the party,

Katya are bonding

lest I forget, Stephanie is here too, and she

remembering

wonder how Sylvester would take

was happy for both of

fun amid all

the eastern garden, and the party

gossiping

they knew what had happened

who had

felt she was misled,

she lied about many things, especially her relationship with Sylvester, and

even her

guess loyalty wasn’t part of their

Wilson linked me

did not know how to feel about it, but I obliged

myself from the party and returned

for me in the hallway close to Amanda’s

asked

expressionless, and I knew

and he put his

Annika before she leaves,” He said, and I frowned at

couldn’t work

what you want to

knowing I would talk

worried for the unborn children,

she said no,” he said, and I knew

Alphas were proud.

let her?” I asked him, and he

did, Tamia, and I do not

have rejected her on the balcony that day,

beginning of my

It won’t work.

I will always see her as the reason my life

clean start, and she does

would try to use them, and I do

ever desire to know their father, they will

them,” he said with a final

that he felt no pain, but I kept it to myself,

the opportunity to come clean, and she

flash drive when I confronted her,

careful around her if I were

dangerous and cannot be

can’t believe that I threw away my life

I did was stupid, and it would haunt me for the rest of my life, but I want

a break from the