The Dark Side Of Fate by Karima Sa'ad Usman novel Chapter 245

~Leo~

My mouth was dry, so I drank the water and composed myself, ready to listen to the rest. I dared not interrupt.

"Because of this progress, there was a law that we would only mate with Alphas to have strong alphas in our bloodline like the Volkovs. Although Patrick died before his grandchildren from Rudolph got their wolves Sophia lived long and tried to ensure they married Alphas.

Sophia passed away, and Rudolph he focused on his son and his grandchildren and ensured they continued doing so as his parents wanted. That was why everyone in our lineage mated with an alpha. All except you, Leo." He said, and I remained fixed in my chair.

I was glad that Sophia was a distant cousin of Amelia's ancestor, or else it would have been weird. I held my tongue and listened.

My father told me about Gregory and Adrian's agreement, how Gregory had broken that agreement, and everything that Dimitri did to wipe out the Volkovs. He said the story the exact way everyone that knew it narrated it.

"When the Stepanovs had to flee from the North, our family and the Sullivan Family helped them escape," He said. I was surprised by how the Sullivans got into the story.

"Are the Sullivans the same Sullivans that moved to the North and had an issue with Maurice?" I asked my father, and he nodded.

'" Yes, they are the same Sullivans. They were the descendants of the beta son the Stepanov abandoned. The boy and his mother moved to the South to settle down, and that was when they adopted that last name just like we adopted Albert. The Sullivans are Stepanov descendants, while we are Volkov descendants with Stepanov genes," My father explained. That made a lot of sense why Susan recovered from silver so quickly.

Things had just gotten complicated. Susan was a distant relative of mine. But Sylvester was a closer relative because Patrick was his ancestor.

"My father and Grey Sullivan's father ensured the Stepanovs could settle and find homes in the East and South. My father had many businesses then, but he spent all his money making sure Dimitri did not win, even though Dimitri was more of our relative than the Stepanovs.

The Sullivans did the same in the South. Before my father passed away, he told me to work with the Stepanovs and always ensure they were fine. I was to keep their secret and ensure they were protected.

Grey Sullivan and I worked with the Stepanovs, Erik, Yuri, Ilya and Mikhail to ensure they were fine.

Yuri then had a bright idea of starting a family group of all the Stepanovs to help revive the bloodline and start our lives instead of hiding in the dark.

Grey and I refused to join because we didn't think it was a wise idea, and we saw it as corruptible because Yuri wasn't a nice guy. Yuri also had reservations about me because I was a Volkov.

By then, they had money and did not need us anymore.

The only reason they remained dependent on us was that they could not mix thoroughly because of their apparent features, so they often asked us for help with certain things, and we would help when we could.

Maurice found some transfers and investigated Grey and Nicolas Sullivan. He had suspected an underground network like a cult was after his Lordship but could never prove it.

I did not know that was what Yuri was doing then. I honestly thought Maurice was paranoid.

Lucas and Gavin were hot on Yuri and Erik's trail because of the uprising against him led by the Head Alpha of the West. Maurice believed they were a part of it, but he did not know they were Stepanovs because they always dyed their hair and wore contacts. The only thing that exposed true Stepanovs is that you wouldn't feel your wolf when you try to shift beside them." My father said, and I remembered what Casper said about his inability to feel his wolf when he was with my parents.

"Do you have that ability, too, because my beta could not feel his wolf when he was with the two of you?" I asked, and my mother laughed and showed me a bracelet that looked like a device.

"Erik made this for me. It is a radioactive silver emitter. It works when wolves are in close proximity. Once turned on, everyone would lose connection to their wolves except the wearer," She said, smiling, and I looked at the ingenious device. This Erik guy must be brilliant.

My father cleared his throat to get us back to the discussion, and I focused my attention on him.

"Unfortunately for Grey, he got linked with the mysterious group. He and his wife Rebecca had to flee the North, leaving their daughter behind. Yuri and Erik gave them refuge, and that was how they had no choice but to join the Stepanov family group. The problem with the group was that once you were in, you had to seize communication with the outside world.

The wave of the uprising hit us, and Ramsey sacrificed the Riverstorms for it because they ratted him out. Martha and I knew the cause of the problem, but we had to hold our peace because Maurice was a madman. So when you liked their daughter, we did not kick against it. She deserved to have a family." He said and sighed.

"You need to understand. Had we spoken up on their behalf, we would have had to expose our family, and Maurice would not have pardoned any of us. He was mad like that," My father said, and I already knew that, so I nodded. I was glad Sylvester was nothing like his father.

"A year before we handed over to you, we noticed the Stepanov's activities and became strong. Grey told us of Yuri's plans to take over.

Yuri had become so powerful that it was now a join-up-or-die thing.

We knew they would come to Mountain, and we wanted you to be safe, so Martha and I agreed to join so they would leave you alone. Yuri and Erik agreed, and we handed the pack over to you and left." He said and bowed his head.

"Nothing could prepare us for what we would meet. That thing had turned into a cult. We learned of many nasty things that were going on, but we dared not speak because we were referred to as Volkovs there. We thought Dimitri was a madman. These people were worse.

They were sponsoring all kinds of things. Grey and I ensured that they never harmed the South and East.

Then when I heard you had made it to head Alpha, I was more determined to keep their actives out of the East.

Yuri tried to convince me a few times to ask you to join, but I refused.

I let him know a deal was a deal. He would often drop it.

Something happened two years ago, and then he and Erik split up.

They both had different agendas. Erik wanted to avenge what was done to the Stepanovs and restore his family's name and freedom; Yuri wanted to be Lord.

They argue about it, and the cult became divided." He said, and I knew that was about when he said they locked him up.