Fate's Dark Side Chapter 591

Even though they were pretty omegas, the men did not spare them a look which meant they were disciplined and could not be caught off guard. It was a good quality in an ally but not an enemy.

"Erik and Yuri have an issue," Andrew said, and I frowned.

"Who is this Yuri?" I asked immediately.

"Yuri is our father's first cousin, the son of Adrik's brother, Ighor. Erik's mother fled to the east with him, so the two grew up like brothers, but they are distant cousins," He explained. I had nothing to say about it, so I was quiet.

"Yuri started the group. It was a group then, but it transformed into a cult later.

Yuri started the group so we could all be in touch and help each other.

My father, Uncle Erik, and Uncle Ilya helped Uncle Yuri fish out everyone that fled and survived the massacre.

It was a gradual process that took years. They found all our relatives twenty-nine years ago when they completed the search and recruitment.

Luis, the true Stepanov heir, was the only member who refused to join.

Their main aim was to restore glory to our bloodline.

Luis said he did not want anything to do with the lordship, so the family leadership was given to Yuri. Yuri was not pleasant, but he tried to be fair and diplomatic.

They started planning ways to reverse Dimitri's order by cancelling the lordship and placing the council above all.

The plan was to swoop in and take out the council, then install Yuri as King; with this plan, the Volkovs won't be able to do anything because the council would have stripped the Volkovs of their power by being above them and abolishing their royalty.

It was a good plan, but they would not be able to achieve this plan without members that weren't from our bloodline.

Members that could mingle.

Members that were part of the government and could make things happen, so they remained on the low.

It became a cult when every male Stepanov, mated or not, was required to impregnate as many women as possible.

They would settle the women and take the babies from them.

They did this to build an army of people with Stepanov genes.

Erik also carried out some experiments following the formula of the successful trial, and it worked.

He was able to have pregnant women that weren't Stepanovs but were planning on giving up their babies for adoption sign up for this trial.

They would pay handsomely and collect the babies. The result could have been better, but it was good enough. Those babies are the ones in their army now.

To achieve their goals, they started recruiting people without Stepanov genes.

They went after people that had issues with the north or the Volkovs. Maurice's activities in the west did not help matters then.

My father told me Maurice was like Dimitri.

My father and uncles thought they were doing the right thing.

They thought they were ridding the world of menace by taking down the Volkov bloodline, but they did not know that to fight a monster, they were becoming monsters too.

Erik believed Yuri was moving too slowly. He stylishly took over by convincing everyone that Yuri wasn't fit to lead them. I do not know how because my father was the one that was there.

They placed Erik above Yuri but allowed Yuri to be second in command. Erik worked harder than Yuri.

He visited people in disguise and convinced them to join.

Top families in the west, north, east and south. Then one day, the opportunity fell on their lap when a council member named Larry complained to his friend in a bar about his need for revenge.

Unknown to Larry, his friend was a cult member, and that was how he was introduced to Erik.

They promised to support him with everything he needed, and he promised to help them cancel the lordship when the council throws the Volkovs.

With the help of top Alphas from the west and east, Larry almost succeeded, but Maurice caught on, and that operation ended.