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.

her?” She asked,

care?” I said, and she sighed

I misbehaved the last time, and I am

at serious crime, and I knew they

to deal with Dominic if he caused

are a fool

was angry, but I don’t

calm down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and

“Your words and

say it,

whore, among other things; words like that don’t

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

been a problem for me, so it was

was Tamia that made

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

am disappointed

outside would say you didn’t birth me with how

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

“Do not say that,

birth to both

to disown him if he went for

was why he

but I have to feel sorry for

is the older of you two, yet he

like that get

all, Sylvester;

to live in your shadow

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

has worked on his insecurities

you locked

gave birth to

otherwise,” She said and bowed her

“I am sorry about Tamia, but I am really concerned

she went to the west because of

on her part, and I commend her, but I am

but I can’t

alpha, and he has a grudge against this

Devin, his mother was taken by your father,” she

me other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door to

her to keep it down, and she looked at Tamia, where she

said with concern, and

fine,” I

you mind if I examine her?” She asked, and I did not know how Tamia

forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred

blood sample?” She asked,

she ingested a small amount of poison, and I also think she is pregnant,” she said, and I was panicked because she could be

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

pregnant,” I

spread across her

said softly and

and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but

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

to the couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she

and Gretchen were brought as

was Jake’s younger

was stunning and

father eagerly drafted her to join his harem and

of all his bedmates, and

when she pleaded with Maurice to send her

bitch because she almost took

it as an act

saw it as a

Gretchen was only trying to

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

that my mother’s selective memory was

say he had to sleep with those women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method was fucked up, but I

murdered Gretchen in cold blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in this room,” she said, looking

come to plead with Maurice to let her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in his bed naked, looking freshly

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

and one drunken night, he went to her cell and took her life,”