Shadows of Destiny

After breakfast, we had to converge at the lounge to discuss matters.

Tamia went with Linda and Avery while my mother left us to handle the issues concerning the upcoming ceremonies.

I have never been this mentally busy, but dealing with this king forced me to put my brain cells to work.

If it weren’t for the lives it threatened, I would have said I was enjoying the cat-and-mouse game the uprising was playing.

“Four days to go, and you will be the official king.

How do you feel about it?” Dominic asked me, and I looked at him, searching my mind for an honest answer.

“Honestly, Dominic.

I feel nothing.

I feel under pressure like I will be taking up more responsibilities,” I confessed, and he laughed.

“To think father fought tooth and nail for what was given to you on a platter,” he said in deep thought.

I knew Dominic cared for our father a lot and wasn’t aware of what our father did to him.

I hope the time won’t come when I must tell him the man he held on to in his happy fairytale memory never acknowledged his worth.

“I never agreed with your ideology, Sylvester, but I do now,” he said and sat beside me.

Marcel and Theodore were making themselves comfortable, while Leo and Devin were yet to join us.

“If you had attacked the south and destroyed the east as I advised, these people would have won.

I am glad you know when to be merciful and when to be ruthless,” he confessed, and just then, Leo and Devin joined us.

“Since you told me what Ramsey said, I took it upon myself to check the people on that list and the names checked out.

The list she gave us was accurate.

I returned to the prison to show Ramsey, and he agreed with the list.

Those were names of their associates and members,” He said with concern.

“So, what are you driving at?” Dominic asked him.

“Amanda and her lover planned on using these people, and if it goes wrong, dispose of them.

See what she did to her cousin and father.

They are trying to make us clean up their mess,” He said, and I knew where he was driving.

“The uprising group has ended, and the so-called king man would look for another means of getting what he wants.

See these people and the uprising thing as a failed project.

These people on this list do not have any viable information about the king man and Amanda.

They make her seem like a victim and keep saying he is an older man.

That would force us to a point at Ramsey, but we know Ramsey doesn’t have the capacity and smarts for this.

They have stylishly disposed of their allies so they can go into hiding and start afresh later.” Marcel said, and Theodore cleared his throat.

“That is why it is paramount that Annika wakes up.

She must have information that is not in circulation to make Amanda go as far as slipping her poison.

We might be wrong, but it’s worth the attempt,” he said, and I nodded.

Just then, Tamia linked me.

“Amanda is in Cains, and Jacob Mikhailov just visited her.

They argued, and he left.

asked Hendrix to stay

be joining him

I

noticed my eyes glazed

not so nice giveaway that I always

Cains,” I linked Marcel and Theodore,

we should check there,” Marcel linked

and Jacob Mikhailov visited her at her hotel to complain and argue,” I linked them, and Marcel gently nodded, not wanting us to

are we going to do? You asked that we should not declare her wanted,” Devin said, and

think she succeeded and

She will contact Leo.

is now on the

contact him,” I said, and

paradise

mean?” Marcel asked me, and I cleared my

for a specific reason and their emotions

the only one that survived the uprising against Maurice,

had to count for

a protective shield in case

he recruited Amanda, worked on her and made her fall in love so she would wholeheartedly

would look like a continuation of what happened in my father’s era, but in

think they fell in love,” he

until Tamia broke it down for me,” I said and looked at Leo because what I was about to say would

in love with the

with someone else so I can achieve my

Likewise you.

took you a while to let go of her, and you

you have sent Tamia to Devin, allowed him to sleep with her and

eyes were misty, and

and I did

them to

Devin said, “almost beat me

Devin said, and

“Likewise myself,” I said.

“I can’t.

imagine her

drive

on her, and it took a lot to calm

a friendly hug, but my wolf won’t have

this so-called king man sent the woman he

one at that, simply because they were fated, he had found a way to use the

her to stay with him and

two were like rabbits in that house, so Amanda must have had your scent regardless,” I said, and Leo

this discussion is going, Leo, but I need to explain something;

being insensitive, just proving a point Tamia made,” I said so he would

man would never heal, and I

he knew it was

if he had kept his

proof of that after what

on, and Devin moved

thought he could get away with it,

pregnant,”

is crazy about this

why she would go as far as she has

and

to sleep with him; she was the one that wanted the

him, she is dispensable,” I

looked

to our topic of

won’t kill her, but he might separate from

won’t kill her because he knows she won’t give him up, but he might disappear and make himself

happens, she will reach out to

will be grabbing on straws, looking for comfort, she will reach

make a connection