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.

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 is what the

diner I was working in and decided to recruit

been some of the best in my life,”

Beta,” my dad said. I could hear the

a year ago. You rubbed off on me,” I told him. He

pleased.

the new development with Alpha James,” my mother said. I felt my

unexpected,” I told

something we can do?” she

have people here who support me and it’s only for a couple of

us once and for all,” I told her. She looked at me with her mom gaze and then nodded. I felt Finlay stroke the

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

are doing fine. Your dad has his books and Elder still asks

opportunities we can to babysit Armino. It works out

mom said, I could see how much she enjoyed being

being mated and having a kid.

laughed.

about you, pumpkin? Elder said you aren’t mated, but do you have

my dad asked. I felt myself blush and I shifted my gaze from my phone

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

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

them.

you have someone, life is too short to not have love in it,” my dad said

eyes, but I also saw the smile and the slight blush on her face. I

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

my dad agreed. He had been a participant

or supporting?”

the pride

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

us updated on how things are.

promise, mom. I love you both,” I told

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

how close my tears were. Finlay took

head on his shoulder and

I half

He won’t come out here until I tell him to,” Finlay said. I

his scent. “They seem lovely,” he said. I