The Dark Side Of Fate

26 Faceless Attack

~Tamia-

Sylvester finally asked me to follow him to Lucland to meet his mother. After meeting Dominic at the club, I wasn’t looking forward to the meeting.

I learned the woman was strict and had her sons on a tight leash.

Even though Sylvester had confessed his feelings for me, what if she did not approve of me?

I was scared, but since Sylvester insisted and told me I had nothing to worry about, I decided to take him up on it.

We ate breakfast in our room and prepared to leave.

Linda was the most worried for me because there were only two things that could happen; she could either be unreasonable and ask her son to choose between her and me, or give me a chance. I hoped she would give me a chance.

Leo did not have parents when we got together, so this was new for me. We got dressed to visit his mother.

On our way out, Silvester stopped.

“Marcel needs me for a minute. Do you think you can wait for me? The matter seems urgent; it is about Bane and the East,” he said, and I was a bit worried because of Leo.

“Link me when you are ready to leave,” I told him, and he nodded. I decided to go to Avery’s room. I found Avery in her room, embroidering a piece of fabric. It looked horrible, but it seemed to be her new pastime. I had not seen her that morning because we didn’t eat in the dining room.

“Hey, you guys haven’t left yet?” She said, putting down the hoop that held the scarf she was marring with her needlework.

I noticed a diamond ring on her finger, and she smiled at me.

“He proposed an hour ago. I did not think about it; I just said yes,” She said, smiling with tears in her eyes.

“I can’t get it wrong twice now, can I?” She said, and I could hear the nervousness in her voice. She was afraid.

“Why did you say yes?” I asked her, picking up on her fear.

“Because I love him, and it will be great to have a life with him, but deep down, I am scared fated will show up and mess me up again,” She said, and I went to hug her. She pulled away and nodded, wiping away her tears.

I now understood why she was in her room working on an embroidery hoop instead of socialising in the eastern garden as usual.

“I have to take this leap of faith, or I might keep guessing and live with regrets. Marcel is a great guy and a great catch. He is a step up from that arsehole, Max. This is a good thing,” she said, wiping her tears.

“Feeling afraid and being happy at the same time is a weird mix of emotions,” She confessed, and I smiled.

“Has Sylvester told you what is happening in the east?” She asked, changing the topic, and I shook my head.

“We were heading out when Marcel called him for a meeting about Bane and the east, I told her, and she nodded.

and I wondered why

might go to war against Leo to take over the East completely. I just picked bits of Marcel’s conversation. I am sure Sylvester will tell you what is going on in case I

all the help he needed to push back. It was one thing to willingly join up; it was another to be

return to my room. I wasn’t in the mood to hang out in the garden. “Where are you?”

and prayed for Leo’s safety. Eventually, I got tired of

LATER THAT DAY.

up to a commotion

looked out the window, and it

happening. Sylvester did

meeting had taken all day. What was

I sat up in bed, worried because they were northern guards. No one had ever barged into Sylvester’s

met silence which meant he was not around. To my surprise, Dominic walked in,

has questions to answer, ” he said, and

be in your best interest to comply, or your actions might be seen as treason”, he warned me, and I

I asked him,

A crime has been committed, and we require your full cooperation to solve it,” he said, then the guards clamped the

happened? At least I deserve to know what happened.” I

said, and I tried to link Marcel and Theodore, but they

asked, afraid something had happened to him, and Dominic stopped and slapped me on the

the north, whore!” he growled. What had happened

attacked today and is currently fighting for her life. She was attacked in the afternoon, and she was in the company of one of a council elder. Unfortunately, the elder did not make it. The surviving warriors identified the men as a mix of eastern and southern mercenaries. I know you are affiliated with Bane, so the council wants us to question the newcomers, especially you. Bane had dared to attack twice

the Alpha,”

against him? Why should we pay for Bane’s crimes?”

mother has hidden in Lucland successfully without event. You are the first outsider to know she lives in Lucland, and then this happened. I also won’t forget that Bane had tried to take you from the north. You were supposed to visit her today; they might have

said, and he turned to look at

I remained silent, knowing this was a difficult situation. As much as I hated Dominic, I

into the same cell with me. Linda had a bleeding nose, so I figured she resisted.We were

were bound in silver chains

the north, they still treat us as prisoners,” Avery retorted, and

to return. I am sure he will put Dominic

and she

council is backing Dominic on this, then Sylvester would have to allow the investigation to run its course,” she said, telling me something I already

kill a council

war, remember?” She said,

from that,” I said, and Linda shook her

lord and the north. If she dies, Sylvester might act irrationally, giving Bane the opportunity he wants,” Linda

I think someone did this to

have to answer questions. I wished we had something useful to give,” Avery said, knowing what happened to prisoners that were useless, and we

attended to us. We spent the night