The Dark Side Of Fate

Since the dinner party where I found Tamia, I haven’t been able to sleep. I stayed awake most nights, wondering what to do.

I had just agreed to an alliance with the east; it would be wrong to ask the leader to part with his wife because she was my fated.

I knew she wasn’t an Alpha breed when she couldn’t sense me and convincing her she was mine was going to be complicated.

The situation between her and Leo made me hopeful, but I wanted to wait a bit.

I knew Leo wouldn’t hold on to her for too long, and I hoped to claim her when they decided to call it quits. Little did I know Volkov would come calling, bullying his way through.

As much as I had tried to ignore the Volkovs, they always had a way of messing with me.

First, it was my parents and my youth. Because of Maurice, my father died early, and I could not be a normal teenager because I had to take over. Now Sylvester has taken my fated.

Attacking the estate in the north was stupid, and many lives were lost in the process, but I was desperate.

I couldn’t take it anymore.

My wolf, Rex, was in pain, and I was hurting every day, knowing that, just like my mother, I might never see my fated again.

When Leo asked me if I had told Sylvester that Tamia was my fated, I could not help but chuckle.

The Volkovs never let go of what they have taken. They are called trophies for a reason. They are keepsakes, living proof that they have conquered a place.

I did not know what to do, and as time passed, I became more desperate.

I had to respect Leo for calling a meeting because just as he had heard that I was going to attack the east to take over the rest of the east, I had heard that he would attack me to take back the part of the east that joined the South.

The man did not like trouble, which was one of his strengths. I decided I would be more careful before acting because someone or some people were clearly trying to knock our heads together.

It still hurt that Kyle thought I would orchestrate the attack against the western borders.

Honestly, I believed Kyle did it, and when it went south, he denied it, but as the days passed, I began to suspect that Sylvester might have orchestrated the entire thing so he could have a reason to attack the east and subdue them.

If only Leo could see that it would be wrong to keep allowing the mad lord to rule us.

How many more do we have to give?

not want to go after Sylvester, I will. For Tamia’s

universe made her for me, fate gave her to me, and I wasn’t willing to let

Tamia were together, and it repulsed

was only doing what she could to

do the same in her

him with Amanda must have

in the South to grant her permission to own land and

was actively making

she tell me her

what to do and felt I was running out

Rex, my wolf, said,

lying on the grass at the back of my house

I lived alone.

since my father passed

dated anyone seriously, and

always let the person I was dating know that I was waiting

can’t let Sylvester keep her, Devin,” Rex said, growling in my

I can. When we strike, we have to get it right,” I told my wolf, and he was silent.

pack, whose territory was attacked for taxes, was

mental state, but I had no choice but

glad that

feet and got ready to head to my

the office and waited for

that he had a long night because he

offered him a

so much, Alpha Devin, for helping us. The north speaks poorly of you, but it is them that

was messy and unkempt.

to invite us to his engagement party. I can’t believe someone agreed to marry the bastard. I learned she was a luna from the east. One of

I asked

say she seemed happy for a captive. I could not tell if it were

to beat fast, and my hands were shaking. I was filled with anger and fear and battling

would she be able to sense our bond wearing Sylvester’s

lying when he said they

a way to see her before he claimed