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.

you were special, pumpkin. I hear Alpha Finlay is a good Alpha,” my dad told

If he had heard Finlay was a good Alpha, that is what the grape

is. I was lucky he stopped at the diner I was working in and

the best in my

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

attack almost a year ago. You rubbed off on

pleased.

with Alpha James,”

was unexpected,” I

Is there something we can do?” she

it’s only for a couple of weeks. Then we can all

looked at me with her mom gaze and then nodded. I felt Finlay

is retired life?” I asked. My dad made a face and I smiled

asks him for advice from time

all the opportunities we can to babysit Armino. It works out great as Elder

the Beta couple,” my mom said, I could see how much she enjoyed being a

wrap my head around Elder being mated and having a kid. It sounds so grown up,” I told

laughed.

pups anymore. How about you, pumpkin? Elder said you aren’t

I shifted my gaze from my phone to Finlay who sat behind

elbowed my dad and gave him a look that said to not ask things like that. I understood she was

been circling each other for a while now. Well, it’s

them.

is too short to not have love in it,” my dad said and gave my mother

her face. I could hear Sam talking to Matilda in the cabin and

to you

games start,” my dad

supporting?” he

said. I could see the pride on both

course she is. She is our daughter,” my mother huffed. “We will let you get on with

things are. Don’t you dare let it go another

I love you both,”

too, pumpkin. And we are so very proud of you,” my dad

tears were. Finlay took my phone and placed it on the table and

head on his shoulder

I half heartedly

a moment. He won’t come out here until I tell him

his scent. “They seem lovely,” he