The Dark Side of Fate

14 The Wolf Lord

~Sylvester~

“My darling Sylvester, by the time you read this, I would have moved far away from the north. I know we planned to spend the rest of our lives together, and I looked forward to it. Three months ago, my brother finally found his fated; she isn’t his girlfriend. It left his girlfriend broken. I never want to feel that way. Your eighteenth birthday is coming soon; I am afraid she won’t be me. Where will that leave us? I have decided to follow my uncle to the south; please do not come looking for me there. I hope you find your fated, and I wish you all the best. Love Susan” 1

I lay in bed, reading the letter my girlfriend left me eleven years ago.

We were in love, and everyone saw her as

the next Luna of the north after I

succeeded my father.

I had promised her that I would risk

being weak and reject my fated if I ever found my fated, and it wasn’t her.

Susan had no faith in my promise and panicked. She ran away a few months before my eighteenth birthday. I have never heard from her ever since.

I was heartbroken at first, then I became angry, and then I became numb.

Never wanting to feel that way again, I locked my heart away. I never found my fated, the reason why she left, and I never fell in love again.

No woman ever caught my attention again. When my father was murdered,

and I had to take up the lordship, it

became worse because I now didn’t have

time for romance anymore.

It remained that way until recently, when Tamia came into my life. Something that was supposed to be a trophy soon started giving me sleepless nights.

I was patient, but I didn’t know how long it would last.

When the east decided to insult me by attacking my region, I had to put them in their place.

I had no intention of taking over their region, but I wanted to warn them, and I was glad they got my message.

When the trophies arrived, I thought it

would be as usual, and I would draft them

accordingly, but I was wrong.

Those green eyes burned into my soul; I had to compose myself when I looked

into her eyes.

She was tough, courageous, a true luna,

and she was mine.

She had given herself to save others, unsure of the fate ahead of her. Tamia got me, and her hold was tight and powerful.

After Susan, love stopped having meaning, and relationships lost their value.

I kept a harem of lovers for a while and sent them all away when I turned twenty- six. What I had now was just a collection

of trophies I had never touched.

I kept a harem so no one would have ideas or hope, but Tamia was different.

I knew I would be breaking all my rules with her, and I hoped, for my sake, she would not be my downfall.

When she referred to herself as used

goods, I was annoyed because she was

like wine; the older, the better. Priceless and perfect.

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Who would have thought I would find a woman to bring me to my knees? I wanted her for myself.

I needed to give her time to heal before I buried myself in her and claimed her as mine.

She needed time to mourn and accept her new reality before I made my move, but one thing I was sure to do was to make my intention towards her clear to

everyone.

So I ensured she ate with me and all the

rules that applied to my trophies did not apply to her.

free to do as she liked.

with her at

talked about life.

wanted to know the

tried to understand

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disappoint me, either.

her like iron to a magnet, and he troubled me

me, but I kept my cool for her sake. If Leonardo Albert continues to defy me,

I was tempted to sleep

provoked me, and I decided she wouldn’t wear any of

spent two days away from the

and I had a small business to

wondered what Tamia would

whether she would miss

temperament, I also

figure out who staged the

asked Theodore, my

shook his

the border of

north, and I needed to find

had been on high alert since my father was killed on his retirement trip.

mother lived in the town whose borders were attacked, so I had to

did not want to

the only parent I had

still investigating, Alpha,” Theodore said and

very uncomfortable. I would only be comfortable if the culprit

always made me

safer.

let it rest and decided to speak

the attack, but he told me the attackers

someone to stage such

it be that they wanted to

they were stupid because if I had to

it would be to raze

to the

likely to

mood change, Marcel, my

called my

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Let us investigate further so we can know what to do,

would we do if they refuse to

he was getting attached to the Luna he was fucking.

of them,” he

you will willingly torture Avery?” I

and he smiled.

Mia, her wolf, ” he told me, and I was shocked at

east.

tell you what that bastard, Kyle, did to his luna because he found his

doubt Tamia would give up her husband’s secrets, though. You need to be careful with that one, Alpha,”

never lose my head or neglect my duty because of a woman. She fascinates. me quite alright, but if she ends up

stupid.

research

I

after what I had discussed with my

I had to

I needed information from her. Especially information she might not be willing to give. I want

I knew her husband sent it, and I was curious to

was the tone

fact that her last months with him

made me relax. If not, I might have sent her back.

and pain the letter

soul. It was

of true

to me. He might not

me

his consent for me to care for

and love her.

did not need it, but I

must have been important to him; too bad he was too weak to keep her.

from him. I now realised why she gave herself up. She did not want to be his

situation must have

for her to choose the unknown

It made me

she