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?

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

for me, fate gave her

told me Sylvester and Tamia were together, and

only

the same

must have hurt her so deeply that her captivity

in the South to grant her permission to own land

making

didn’t she tell me her plans the day we danced and I held her in my

and felt I

continue like this,” Rex, my wolf, said, and

the grass at the back of my

I lived alone.

had lived alone since my father passed

and I never brought a

person I was dating know that I was waiting for my fated. How

let Sylvester keep her, Devin,” Rex said, growling in my head. He was in

When we strike, we have to get it right,” I told my wolf, and he was silent. It wasn’t because he was happy about my response; he knew

territory was attacked for taxes, was on his way to visit

the visit because of my mental state,

only glad that I was

and got ready to head to my office and wait for

office and

eventually arrived, apologising that he had a long night because he had to

a drink,

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

rest, and his appearance was messy and unkempt. His shirt wasn’t

I can’t believe someone agreed to marry the bastard. I learned she was a luna from

Albert?” I asked him, and he

I must say she seemed happy for a captive. I could not tell if it were pretence or that it was

shaking. I was filled with anger and fear and battling tears from falling.

growl in my head. How would she be

guessed Leo wasn’t lying when he

to find a way to see her before he claimed her. I needed