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 must

you care?” I said, and she

I misbehaved the last

crime, and I knew they would want to

deal with Dominic if he

are a

angry, but I

She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t

“Your words and actions hurt her,

didn’t say it, I could

among other things; words like

that believed Dominic didn’t do it? She was the one that urged me to dig

been a problem for me, so it was easy to think he would pull

was Tamia that made me

made me look at other factors, yet you were busy antagonising her and making

am disappointed

the outside would say you didn’t birth

me; you never have

not

gave birth to

him if he went

why

say hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to feel sorry for

yet he has nothing, no position, no

that get

it all,

in your shadow for the

not your fault, but I know it gets to him, so he is always eager to prove that you are flawed so he can feel

worked on his insecurities and used

you locked the douchebag

to

not ever think otherwise,” She

“I am sorry about Tamia, but

knew she went to the

brave thing to do on her part, and I commend her, but

isn’t vindictive, but I can’t

he has a grudge against

mother was taken by your father,” she said and looked around

weren’t supposed to hear, so I

signalled her to keep it down, and she

is pale,” She said with concern,

fine,” I said, and she looked

examine her?” She asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was

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

a blood sample?” She

think she is pregnant,”

fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said

I confirmed, and she

spread

softly and looked at Tamia

She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I

me something about Donald Brighton, mother,” I said, and she

the couch area, and

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she said

Gretchen were

Jake’s younger

stunning and a

join his

Gretchen of all his bedmates, and

was being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her sister In-law back to her

she almost took my

did not see it as an act of

it as a way

her too, and Gretchen was only trying to get rid

pleaded with Maurice to remain in his service and continue to warm his bed,” She said and wiped away her

my mother’s selective memory

secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting

silver blade

had come to plead with Maurice to let her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in

it bothered her,” she said and bowed her

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