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

The cookies were almost gone when my phone rang. I jumped as I had been waiting for it and was on edge. I picked it up

and saw someone was calling on FaceTime. I looked at Finlay. He smiled and took my free hand. I answered and my heart

did a double take when I saw my mom and dad. They were in my dad’s office, it looked just like it used to, back when I

last had seen it. My mom was in my dad’s lap and it made me happy to see they still acted like newly mated. They looked

a little older. My mom had fine lines around her eyes and my dad had some grey strands in his hair.

“Armeria.” It sounded like a breath that escaped from my mom.

“Hi mom. Hi dad,” I said. I felt myself tear up, and Finlay squeezed my hand.

“Hi, pumpkin. You have grown up,” my dad said. I smiled despite the tears in my eyes.

“I guess I have,” I admitted.

“You look beautiful,” my mom told me.

“Thank you mom. I guess I have good genes.” My dad chuckled.

“That you do, pumpkin. Thank the goddess you got all from your mother,” he said. My mom laughed and hit him jokingly

on the chest. As I watched them, I could see some of the things I did to Finlay.

“Tell me everything,” my mom said.

“Everything?” I asked.

“Everything that has happened since I last saw you,” she clarified. I laughed.

“Mom, that was ten years ago,” I objected.

“Well, then it’s best if you start talking,” she said. I started telling them about the last ten years in broad strokes. I

skipped over most of the four years I lived in the human world, just mentioning it briefly. Then I got to Finlay and my

pack and how I got my wolf. My mom had tears in her eyes when I told them that my wolf had come to me. “She is

bright red,” I told them.

“Oh goddess, I have never heard of a red wolf. Mine is more blond than red,” my mother said.

“She is one of a kind. And she is big, almost as big as my Alpha’s wolf, and that is the biggest one I have ever seen,” I

told them.

I hear Alpha Finlay is a good Alpha,” my dad told me. I smiled, I knew

packs. If he had heard Finlay was a good Alpha, that

I was lucky he stopped at the diner I was working in

been some of the best in

a Beta,” my dad said. I could hear the pride in his voice and it

our former Beta in an attack almost a year ago. You rubbed off on me,”

pleased.

about… the new development with Alpha James,” my

unexpected,” I told

okay? Is there something we can

here who support me and it’s only for a couple of weeks. Then

looked at me with her mom gaze and

hand with his thumb. “What about you? How is retired life?” I asked. My dad made a

still asks him for advice from time to

can to babysit Armino. It works out

mom said, I could see how much she enjoyed being

can’t wrap my head around Elder being mated and having a kid. It sounds so grown up,” I

laughed.

anymore. How about you, pumpkin? Elder said you

my dad asked. I felt myself blush and I shifted my gaze from my phone to Finlay who sat behind

look that said to not ask things

someone. Nothing solid just yet. We have been circling each other for a while now.

them.

someone, life is too short to not have love in it,” my dad said and gave my mother a kiss on

but I also saw the smile and the slight blush on her face. I could hear Sam talking

that you called. I have missed talking to you both. But I have some things I

the day before the games start,” my dad agreed. He had been a participant in two

supporting?”

I could see the pride on both of my parent’s

my mother huffed. “We will let you get

expect you to keep us updated on how things are. Don’t you dare let it go another ten years,” she then

love you

love you too, pumpkin. And we are so very

for a moment. I needed to collect myself as I felt how close my tears were. Finlay took my phone and placed it on the table and pulled me into his lap so he could put both his arms

my head on his shoulder

I half

come out here until I

breath of his scent. “They seem lovely,” he said.