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.

with her?” She asked, and

I said, and she sighed and bowed her

I misbehaved the last time, and

that treason is at serious crime,

threatened to deal with Dominic if

a fool

angry, but I don’t hate

went to 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

“Your words and actions hurt her,

didn’t say it, I could see

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

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

it was

Tamia that made me

made me look at other factors,

disappointed in you,

from the outside would say you didn’t birth

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

not say that,

birth to both

to disown him if he went for the

why

say hurtful things to Dominic, but I

is the older of you two, yet he has nothing, no position,

that get to

all, Sylvester;

to live in your shadow for the rest

know it gets to him, so he is

worked on his

happy you locked the douchebag

gave birth to both of

otherwise,” She said

sorry about Tamia, but

went to the west

do on her part, and I

but I can’t say

and he has a grudge against this

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

supposed to hear, so I opened the door to

it down, and she looked at Tamia, where she

said

fine,” I said,

and I did not know how Tamia would feel about

forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in

the doctor take a blood

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

for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into

I confirmed, and

wide grin spread across

she said softly and

she will give me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that

tell me something about Donald

moved to the couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she said

and Gretchen were brought as

Jake’s younger

was stunning and a

father eagerly drafted her to join his harem and reluctantly

favoured Gretchen of all his bedmates, and Ava got

with Maurice to send her sister

bitch because she almost took my husband from

it as an act of kindness

saw it as a way of

her too, and Gretchen was only trying to

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

clear that my mother’s selective memory was her

would 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

driving a silver blade through

say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in his

and it

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