Game of Destiny – A Thrilling Tale of Power, Love & Fate

Spring had finally come to the pack land and Finley had decided to celebrate it with a BBQ at his house. Invited was the

top tier, Matilda and Cadence family. Jake had trained the pups and adults in hiding and evading for almost a year. He

had become close to both me and Sam and the pack had a new appreciation for him. He was an amazing strategist and

was good at handling the pups, making the training into playtime. Finley stood on his deck and manned the BBQ. I kept

him company as the others were setting the table inside and cooked the side dishes.

“You look happy,” he said.

“I am. I got an invitation from CeCe today. You remember her, right?”

“Sure. The woman who was there when we picked you up.”

“Right. So, Jessie, the man who was there to see me off,” I clarified for him. Finlay nodded but didn’t look happy. “He

proposed to CeCe, it was about time if you ask me, so they sent me a save the date for their wedding. June twenty fifth,”

I told him. I didn’t expect him to get all giddy like I had been when I red the invite. But I hadn’t expected him to look like

he had bitten into a lemon either. “What?”

“Nothing,” he said. I gave him a look and he sighed.

“The gathering of packs is the same week,” he reminded me.

“Crap. I had totally forgotten. It’s okay, I’ll just tell them I can’t make it.”

“No, you should go. they are your friends and a wedding is a big deal,” Finlay insisted.

“It is. But the pack comes first. You need someone to go with you and then someone needs to stay with the pack.”

“I don’t need someone to go with me. I’m a big Alpha, I can manage on my own. Beside, most Alphas take their Lunas as

the plus one. I will be fine,” he insisted. I hesitated. We didn’t talk about it but his brother would be there and from what I

could tell, the previous years hadn’t been easy when the two met.

“Why do you both look like thunderclouds? It’s spring, we are having a BBQ and we are supposed to be happy,” Martin

said as he came walking with a beer each for us.

“Thank you,” I said, taking one.

“We were discussing that Amie has received a wedding invitation for her friends’ wedding the same weekend that I’m to

meeting of the packs,” Finlay

told her you would go alone to the meeting and I would go with her, leaving Sam and

pack and she didn’t like it?”

“What?” I said.

hadn’t got quite as far,” Finlay told

it’s the

people I know, humans. Finlay is going into week long meeting with every other pack. Some are openly hostile towards us. If anything he needs

at

can look after himself,”

can have some fun and

to be on the lookout for trouble. But if trouble finds you, it will

kind enough to tag along, I will make sure to introduce you to

They will have a field day with you,” I told Martin. He laughed

like an older brother. He always took the opportunity to tease me or make a joke that had

of me and more than once when we had met other packs did he team up with Finlay to make sure single wolves stayed away from

lucky one. I’ll let the others know,” Martin said and walked inside. Finlay and I stood

was looking out over his garden

going with your garden, soon it will be too late,” I

he asked, as if he had never heard of the

down the perennials, planning what

the good stuff,” I

only place to read the complete version of this book for

us now and continue

I don’t do

“You don’t do that?”

“No.”

you do

He must have seen the look on my face, because he continued. “When I built my house, I

imagined a mate, some pups, and then a garden

some vegetables. It felt right. But now. It’s nice to be able to come out here in the summer. But

so the produce would go to waste,” he explained. Mates were a topic we usually stayed clear of. Not

was a subject neither

go to waste. You have such an amazing garden,”

my aunt who designed it,” he told me. It didn’t

she isn’t happy with the state of it,” I told him with a

told him he needs to take care of it.

let it become overgrown,” she

It’s not overgrown. I pay the Hudson kid each summer to

too big,” Finlay defended

over next weekend and sort out your garden. I

to the pack kitchen,” I told him. Matilda smiled and

just looked