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.

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

do you care?” I said, and she sighed

know I misbehaved the last

that treason is at serious crime, and I knew they

with Dominic

are a fool

angry, but I don’t hate

my family home to calm down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and that was a relationship she would have to fix

and actions

she didn’t say it, I

her a whore, among other things; words like

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

was easy

Tamia that made me question the

made me look at other factors, yet you were busy

disappointed

would say you

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

“Do not

birth to

threatened to disown him if he went for

was why he

Dominic, but

yet he

that

have it all, Sylvester; he

to live in your shadow for the

but I know it gets to him, so he is always eager to prove that you are

worked on his

was happy you locked the

gave birth to

not ever think otherwise,” She

about Tamia, but I

knew she went to the west

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

but I can’t say the same

next alpha, and he has a grudge against this

mother was taken by your

people weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door to my room and

and she

is pale,” She said

said she will be fine,” I said, and

did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there,

checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did not wake

the doctor take a blood

and I also think she is pregnant,” she said, and I was

“No need for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said

pregnant,” I confirmed,

wide grin spread across her

she said softly and

I doubted Tamia

going to tell me something about

to the couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she said

and Gretchen were brought as

was Jake’s

was stunning

father eagerly drafted her to join

all his bedmates, and Ava got

Maurice to send her sister In-law back to

hated that bitch because she almost

see it as an act of kindness

it as a

her too, and Gretchen was only

in his service and continue to warm his bed,” She said and wiped away

mother’s selective memory was her

say he had to sleep with those women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but

blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in this

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

stopped touching Ava, and it

up in the dungeon, and one drunken night, he went to her cell and