The Dark Side of Fate

The Dark Side Of Fate By Karima Sa’ad Usman Chapter 121

~Tamia~

Getting Nicole and the children settled in wasn’t a challenge. The children were pleasant and a joy to have around. They were eight years old, and I was a bit envious of them but glad I had my little bundle of joy growing inside me.

“Lady Tamia, I am grateful that you would welcome us into your home,” Nicole said while her husband helped put their bags in the room. It was my old room.

I thought Amanda would be in it, but I was told Sylvester changed his mind about putting her there and put her in the smaller room.

“Oh, I am not Lady yet. Our wedding is in two weeks. Stephanie Volkov is still the Lady of the north; they refer to me as Luna for now, and having you in this place is a joy. It is also your home,” I said, and she smiled and came to hug me.

“Thank you so much. It really means a lot. We had been running around and hiding before we had our triplets. At least now we can rest.” She said, and my heart broke.

Hearing her say they have not known peace for the years they have been together was hard. It is the worst thing that can ever happen to anyone.

“Please rest,” I said, and she held my hand.

“If there is anything you need me to help with, kindly let me know. I am good with house chores,” She said and looked at her husband.

“We do not plan to be freeloaders here. We would like to earn our keep,” she said, and my heart broke into pieces. David is a Volkov. I wonder how he grew up and how they have lived for them to be this way.

“I am sure Sylvester would find a place for his brother. As for you, you’re a luna here too, so start acting like one. My friends and I are having evening tea later; I would like you to join us,” I told her, and she looked at David, who nodded.

I did not know if Sylvester would want to spend time with his brother and get to know him. We were planning an operation; I could not jeopardise it and send David to where Sylvester was having his meeting. I would have to allow Sylvester to move at his own pace.

“Do you know where my older brother is?” David asked me, and I knew he was talking about Dominic.

Dominic might have changed, but he was still a douchebag.

“You mean Dominic?” I said, and he nodded.

with his engagements,” I said, not wanting to get into details and start explaining things to him. I wanted

Liz would have a room while Justin would have a room to himself,” I said, and

clear he had to share with his

sure you have other

is a boy and deserves his own space, and the girls deserve their privacy, too,” I said, winking at Liz and Tanya,

that, I exited my former bedroom,

their parent’s room. I gave them the rooms immediately after their parents’ room. Justin started jumping on

the girls the only room left; Amanda’s room was beside it. I needed to question Amanda before the tea

the girls were settled into their

room, and one of the Kappas lurking about used the key to open it so I could enter the

window with her hand on her bump, staring outside. She turned to look at me. Her eyes were swollen,

she had aged a bit from

bowed

I

and she looked at me. I knew she was thinking of how best

wiped away

they took you to the north. That was

her knowing she had visited her father too often for comfort before the north attacked. I thought she went to complain to her father about her living condition,

along with it because only a fool would defy my father. Everyone that defies him ends up dead,” she said, and she did not need to elaborate on this. My parents paid the price for their defiance. Leo’s

visits, he would ask me what was happening in our house, pretending he cared about my well-being. I

said everything exactly how it was, and he would tell me to hang in there and that it would soon improve. It sounded generic and rehearsed, but I would excuse it since I knew he did

gave yourself up, and they took you away, everything changed. He began to push me to marry Leo, and he started asking me private questions about Leo’s moves and what Leo was up to if he was going to avenge the attack and so on. I thought that was a bit too nosey, so I pushed back. He told me I was dispensable; if I did not do what he wanted, he would just get me out of the way and do what he liked. Knowing his brutality, I knew he

that I was grabbing on straws. Leo hated me, so I dared not confide in him, and you were no longer with us. I was alone. Everyone looked up to me as the head Luna of

tedious, especially when I feared my

decided I would run away. Leo didn’t love me, and he didn’t want me around him, and I knew my father would soon find out that I had been lying to him. Leo had the power to push back;

tell him the real reason, so I made it seem like it was a matter of the heart, hopeful that he would let me leave, but he pleaded with me to

he needed help and could not be left alone, so I chose to risk it and stay. Every day I woke up fearing my father would find

my father’s house and steal some information that I knew might keep me safe. The flash drive is currently in my bag at the hotel. It has the list of people he planned his mutiny with and how they funded themselves.