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.

to stay with

him

about it later,” I

must have noticed my eyes glazed over while Tamia

so nice giveaway that I

Marcel and Theodore, not wanting Devin and Leo to

we should check there,” Marcel

to complain and argue,”

going to do? You asked that we should not declare her wanted,”

we want her to think she succeeded and is

She will contact Leo.

on the council and very

I said, and Leo

will be trouble in paradise

do you mean?” Marcel asked me, and I cleared my

was a target for a specific reason and their emotions were worked on, I believe the king man targeted Amanda,” I said, and

one that

had to count

a protective shield

recruited Amanda, worked on her and made her fall in love so she would wholeheartedly do his bidding: to recruit her father and make him

surface, it would look like a continuation of what happened in my father’s era, but in actual sense, it is something new,” I said, and Leo shook his

think they fell in love,”

it down for me,” I said and looked at

love

Tamia with someone else so I can achieve my goal; I would

Likewise you.

let go of her,

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

misty, and he shook

fresh tears, and

wanted them to

want me dancing with her,” Devin said, “almost beat me up when the north

Devin

“Likewise myself,” I said.

“I can’t.

her having someone else’s

would drive my

Leo on her, and it took a lot to calm Knight

wolf won’t have it,” I said, and

this so-called king man sent the woman

simply because they were fated, he had found a way to use the bond

allowed her to stay with him and

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

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

proving a point Tamia made,” I said so he would know I did not mean it as

clear the man would never heal, and I knew

was because he knew

been avoided if he had kept

am living proof of that after what happened between Susan and

moved on, and

thought he could get away with it, but the

pregnant,” Devin

is crazy about

go as far as

and

one that kept going back to sleep with him; she was the one that wanted the babies and not

she is dispensable,” I said, and

looked

our

he might separate from

she won’t give him up, but he

she will reach

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

not to come back but to make a