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

said, and she sighed and bowed

last

just that treason is at serious crime, and

with Dominic

a fool

but I don’t

just went to my family home to calm down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was being

words and

she didn’t say

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

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

problem for me, so it was easy to

was Tamia that made me question

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

am disappointed

looking from the outside would say you didn’t birth

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

“Do not say that,

to

threatened to disown him if he

was why

say hurtful things to Dominic, but I have

yet he

that get to

all, Sylvester; he

has to live in your shadow for the rest

but I know it gets to him, so he is always eager

worked on his insecurities and used

happy you

to both of

ever think otherwise,” She said

but

went to the west because of

her part, and I

but I can’t say

he has a

his mother was taken by your father,” she

things people weren’t supposed to hear,

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

pale,” She said with concern,

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

mind if I 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

blood sample?” She asked,

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

“No need for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was

I confirmed, and

spread

softly and looked at Tamia

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

something about Donald

moved to the couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

were brought

was Jake’s

was stunning and a

her to join his harem and

his bedmates, and Ava got

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

bitch because she almost took my husband

an act of kindness on her

it as a way of reducing

and Gretchen was only trying to get

she pleaded with Maurice to remain in his service and continue to warm his

mother’s selective memory was her coping

with those women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of

in cold blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in this room,”

say, and instead of finding Maurice,

and it bothered her,” she said

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