The Dark Side Of Fate Chapter 408

I had to lay low for a long time. I had even lost hope until he died as hoped, and you became Lord.

I knew we would be back to the same vicious cycle of overprivileged royals that ruin lives because I did not think you would be any different from Maurice.

I realised I could not allow your bloodline to continue to rule us.

The Volkovs, Sidorovs and Orlovs are lineages of sick bastards that do not deserve to exist," he said with pure venom.

I already knew it was a personal vendetta, so I decided to find out why.

"Why so much hatred that would make you go this far and sacrifice lives?" I asked him, and he smiled.

This bastard was guilty of what he accused my father of. He had recruited people, tricked them, and disposed of them, minors included, and that was a terrible crime.

"You chose to be a monster to end another monster? Does that not sound sick? You chose to become what you loathed. How is that rescuing the people? You recruited minors, children that were yet to start their lives. You lied to people, turned them against each other, and then gave them up to suffer for your crimes. You are worse than my father; you are evil," I told him, and he growled at me.

My words did not sit well with him. Somehow in his twisted mind, he was doing the right thing. He believed he was making the proper sacrifice for the right cause.

He was demented, and there was no talking him out of his insanity. For him to have carried the grudge he had with my father over to me was sick.

I did not do anything to him, yet he has been more of a menace to me than he was to my father. He was a coward because he did it thinking I would be easy to destroy.

He looked at Tamia a bit and looked at me.

"You might not have understood my reasons back then, but now you will," he said with pain and anger in his tone and eyes.

The man wasn't well. He had no business being on the council and roaming free. He must have endured a trauma that destroyed him, but no one cared to pay attention.

He was also a good pretender. I would have never thought he would be the engineer of all my troubles.

"Emily, my Emily," he said, and I was attentive.

"We met here in Gad and fell in love. I was on leave away from the council then. We weren't fated, so we had to wait for the blue moon just like everyone else, and we would have waited.

Your father, including everyone on the council, had just taken over from our parents, so we were excited about our new positions. Although I wasn't a noble, Maurice was my friend, and we were close.

He needed me to do something for him, so I cut my leave short and returned to Lucland to answer my Lord.

Emily and I did not want to be apart, so I asked her to accompany me. When we got to Lucland, I took her to see Maurice.

Your father was yet to be mated then. Emily was a beauty. I shouldn't have taken her to see him that day, but I did.

He was my Lord and friend, so I did not think much of it.

Much like Tamia here, she was with child but wasn't showing.

Your father knew no boundaries and had no limits to what he destroyed. Because of him, I knew the royal and noble bloodline needed to be cut down.

Lucas Sidorov was still level-headed among the three, but Maurice and Gavin were monsters.

They took and took and took and never gave back.

They believed they were entitled to everything and took whatever they wanted, not caring who they were hurting. They were wicked, greedy and unapologetic about it.

After Maurice, Lucas and Gavin met Emily in Lucland, they had their eyes on her.

She was a beauty, much like your Tamia here; it was hard not to look at her," he said.

I wanted Tamia to step behind me because whatever he planned on doing first would have to do with her.

Larry had contempt in his eyes as if I shouldn't have Tamia. As if I did not deserve to be happy, and I knew it had to do with Emily.

Now I understood why Larry always tried to attack Tamia during the council hearing. He always instigated against her or aided Pamela and Joan against her. Had I not locked him up, he wouldn't have stopped.

I kept my observations to myself and allowed him to continue.

"I was sent on a mission with Louis Lawrence and Erick Balyaev. It was impromptu, so I could not go with Emily. While I was away, Maurice and his officers sent for her to visit them at the damned Volkov estate. She could not refuse. He was Lord.

Back then, there were no cell phones. We communicated mainly by letters. Emily went, and Maurice and his friends did unspeakable things to her simply because she said no," he said, and I felt his wolf coming to the surface. I knew my father was a bastard and did not like being denied, so I believed Larry, but still, it did not justify all he had done.