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.

hear Alpha Finlay is a good

Finlay was a good Alpha, that is

the diner I was working in and decided to recruit me. It’s an

years have been some of 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 me,” I told

pleased.

new development with Alpha James,” my

unexpected,” I

you okay? Is there something we can do?”

who support me and it’s only for a

at me with her mom

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

books and Elder still asks him for advice

the opportunities we can to babysit

couple,” my mom said, I could

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

laughed.

of you are pups anymore. How about you, pumpkin? Elder said you aren’t mated, but

I shifted my gaze from my phone to

a look that said to not ask things like that. I understood she was worried it would make

have been circling each

them.

love in it,” my dad said

I also saw the smile and the slight blush on her face. I could hear Sam talking to Matilda in the cabin and I knew

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

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

or supporting?”

could see the pride on

our daughter,” my mother huffed. “We will let you

keep us updated on how things are.

promise, mom. I love you both,” I

love you 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 pulled me into his lap so he could put

put my head on his shoulder

half heartedly

come out here until

scent. “They seem lovely,” he said. I