The Dark Side Of Fate

Into Action

~Leo~

I wasn't the only person shocked by Joan's words.

The rest of the people in the hall were surprised too.

Had we not caught her, she would have remained silent.She was despicable.

"How do you know this? Do you attend their meetings? Where does it take place? How do you communicate?" I asked her, hoping to get information that would help me rescue Casper and all the people kidnapped in the East.

As things were, the East was vulnerable, and time was going.

Any information would help.

Joan shook her head and looked at me. Her eyes were swollen.

The silver cuffs on her wrist had stopped her from healing.

"So, how did you get the information?" I asked her, and her lips were quivering.

She did not want to say it; the only reason she didn't want to say it was that it could get her into more trouble.

"If you do not give us the source of the information, it won't be seen as credible," I said, and she began to weep.

She looked at Leah and then at the lords.

There was shame in her demeanour, and I braced myself for more shocking revelations.

"This financial issue has been a strain on my family. It was why Leah's father went missing. I believe he ran away so he wouldn't have to pay the debts. I have been trying to find other ways to keep up with our lifestyle," She said, and I did not have time for this.

"The source, Joan," I ordered her, tired of her roundabout approach. She was prevaricating on the matter, and time was of the essence.

"There is a member of the cult named Igor Stepanov. He is Yuri's cousin. He is also in the inner caucus. Many people do not know because he appears to be neutral most of the time, but he is a strong believer in Yuri's values, and Yuri trusts him a lot. He gives me a lot of money to go on a trip with him,"

She confessed, which was a subtle way of revealing her affairs.

"He pays you for a good time?" Devin asked, simplifying her words, and she shook her head.

She was ashamed.

"Not really, we are dating, but we aren't exclusive, and he helps me financially. He was the one I planned to join on Cain's island this evening. The reason I told His Majesty I was travelling. Well, he came to Lucland last yesterday. It was a sudden visit, and I had to go and see him. I am coming from his hotel. I heard him discussing the Brighton attack on the phone this morning when he thought I was sleeping," Joan said, and I was ecstatic about the news.

"Hotel name now!" I asked.

I wanted to pick this bastard up if he was still there.

We needed to question him. I suspect he had a hand in the attack last night. I was glad the broadcast was stopped before this, or he would have discovered he was caught.

"He isn't at the hotel anymore; he is leaving for Cains might have left already. He asked me to join him, but now that he must have seen I have been arrested, he won't be expecting me anymore. He is a cautious man." Joan said.

"Do you know his other addresses?" I asked her, and she shook her head.

One of them staying in Hayland," Erik said, and I looked at

He shrugged.

as a neutral party. He is my cousin. We see his Luis Ivanov. Neutral

and stood

isn't supposed to be on any team, so I am surprised he is on Yuri's

seem to

met at Yuri's house in Grizlo," She said, and I

We have two Ighors that are our cousins, but only one lives in Hayland. It is either him or the other one.

will see is his back. I took a selfie of myself hugging him. I do not know if it will help."

said, and she requested her

Kappa searched her handbag and went to

could scroll through her phone until he got to the picture she

of a bitch. Now I know how Yuri found out about

was enraged. It was so intense that I knew there was more to

now," I told Erik, and he seemed

the north," he confessed, and I ran my fingers

was unknowingly the

I asked him, feeling impatient, and

if the King gave us what we wanted, we

all. I had gone to him to help us gather a Stepanov Army

was a two-faced bastard? "Increase

alert Jake, and we need to secure Stepanie because she

hearing is now dismissed," I said, and people

undergo a brutal, aggressive attack by these people," I warned the nobles,

about the prisoners?" Bryce asked me, and I looked

were both standing, and there

connected the

I said, unable to think of anything other than the Volkov children

top of the building to board the

moved quickly, and some of us were

a need for urgency,

Andrew was utterly speechless.

clue of anything we had

with Yuri; we would have fallen into a

mother?" Sylvester asked Dominic,

about Jake? Has anyone called him?" David asked,

am waiting for him to call back," Marcel

ask him to call me when he returns. I have told his son Donald to start evacuating the people of Brighton. He said they have no bunkers and nowhere to

and Tamia were as white

Their children weren't safe.

mother?" Tamia asked Sylvester, and he

try to get the location of our children from them. I say we move the children," Linda said,

don't,"

never do anything that will hurt Stepanie. They will die first before giving out the location of

you move them now, they will be exposed. I say we catch Ighor and send troops to Brighton from the east to defend them," Amelia said, and

Kyle are occupied with tracing out the people that were abducted," I

Brighton will be our only safe passage to the South if war ensues between Yuri and us. I doubt he plans to come to the North. He seems okay with the West, East and South as his territories. Andrew did say it initially, only that he forgot to add the west to the number. The West was already taken with Sean on his side and Stepanovs taking over Western packs. We did not know it," Amelia said, and we