Shadows of Destiny

In The Mix Of Things ~Sylvester~ When Theodore interrupted my speech at the northern council conference, I knew something serious had happened.

I politely excused myself.

I went to him.

I could hear people murmuring, but soon, Marcel took over, and they were silent.

That was why it was best I wrote my speeches.

He just picked up from where I left off.

Theodore stood when I approached him.

“They are back,” He said, and I smiled, glad that Tamia had returned.

I was worried she might see Leo or Devin, and they would convince her to leave with them.

The painful part of that fear was that I wouldn’t have gone after her if she had willingly followed.

Otherwise, I would have given my mother, Dominic and the entire council the war they had longed for and burned the south or east to the ground.

1 “Tamia is ill.

Linda asked that I send a doctor, which I did, but then she insisted I tell you.

I think it is serious,” He said, and images of her being poisoned by Jake Brighton just to get at me flooded my mind.

I was out the door before Theodore could finish the sentence.

People were looking at me weirdly.

The moment I stepped out, I hopped into the first car I saw.

It wasn’t mine, but I was lord, and the driver was already behind the wheel.

“Volkov estate now!” I ordered him, and he started his vehicle.

I did not know who he worked for; I will have to apologise later.

We arrived at the estate, and I rushed into the building and went straight to my room.

Avery and Linda were with her.

She looked pale and sweaty but seemed a bit calm.

The doctor was examining her, and I went to hold her hands.

Knight was afraid, so I had to try and control myself.

When the doctor congratulated me that she was pregnant, I was shocked.

Knowing that Linda did not feel the same way made me still worried that Jake did.

something.

“Linda is pregnant, and she isn’t ill?” I asked the doctor.

“People experience pregnancy differently, but I will still take her blood sample to test for other things.

If there is anything, she is already recovering from it.

I will give her a mild sedative to help.

her relax and sleep it off, but there is no cause for alarm here.

She will be alright when she wakes up; she just needs to rest, ” he said, administered the sedative, and packed his things to leave.

1 I watched Tamia’s eyes close gradually until she fell asleep.

Linda and Avery excused themselves, and I stayed with her.

There was a knock on my door thirty minutes later, and I rushed to open it so the person did not bang too hard and wake Tamia up.

I knew it was my mother.

She was the only one that dared to do that.

I opened the door, and she frowned at me.

Not wanting her in my room, I stepped outside.

is wrong with her?” She asked, and I knew she

do you care?” I said, and she sighed

last time, and I

crime, and I knew they

with Dominic if he

a fool

was angry, but

and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and that was a relationship she would have

words and actions hurt her,

say

her a whore, among other things; words like that don’t get forgotten,”

it? She was the one that urged me to dig instead

has been a problem for me, so it was easy to

made me

one that made me look at other factors, yet you were busy

disappointed

the outside would say you didn’t birth me with how you

side with him over me; you never have my back,” I said, tears

not

birth to

him if

why he

Dominic, but

he has nothing, no position, no charge

like that get to

have it all, Sylvester; he

to live in your shadow

him, so he is always eager to prove that you are flawed so he

his insecurities and used

happy you locked the douchebag

to

not ever think otherwise,” She said

“I am sorry about Tamia, but I

knew she went to the west

do on her part, and I commend her,

I can’t

alpha, and he has a grudge against this

his mother was taken by your

she wanted to tell me other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door to my room and

it down, and she looked

said with

said she will be fine,” I said, and she looked at

Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there, I decided it wouldn’t be

Tamia’s forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her

blood

small amount of poison, and I also think she is pregnant,”

need for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She

is pregnant,” I confirmed,

grin spread across her

said softly and

chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept

tell me something about Donald Brighton, mother,”

moved to the couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she said

were brought

Jake’s

was stunning and a

drafted her to join

his bedmates,

to send her sister In-law

she almost

an act of kindness on her

saw it as a way of reducing

thought Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only

continue to warm his bed,” She said and wiped

clear that my mother’s selective memory was her coping

secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method was fucked

Gretchen in cold blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in

Maurice to let her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she

see, Maurice had stopped touching Ava, and it bothered her,” she said

her locked up in the dungeon, and one drunken night, he went to her cell and took her life,” she said, and I