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.

She asked, and I knew she must

said, and she sighed and

the last time,

that treason is at serious crime,

deal with Dominic if

are a fool

but I don’t

she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and that was a relationship she would have to fix

and actions

say it, I could see

like that

was the only one that believed Dominic didn’t do it? She was

problem for me, so it was easy to think he would pull off that

that made

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

am disappointed in you,

you didn’t birth me with

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

not say

to both of

him if he went for the

why

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

two, yet he has nothing,

that get

have it all, Sylvester;

to live in your shadow for the rest of

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

on his insecurities

was happy you

gave birth to both of

otherwise,” She

am sorry about Tamia, but I am

went to

to do on her part, and I

vindictive, but I can’t say

and he has a grudge against

was taken by your father,” she said and

supposed to hear, so I opened the door to

and

said

she will be fine,” I

asked, and I did not know how Tamia

forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in

doctor take a blood sample?” She asked,

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

whatever was introduced into it,

pregnant,” I confirmed, and she

wide grin spread across her

she said softly and looked at

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

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

moved to the couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

and Gretchen were brought

Jake’s

stunning and a

father eagerly drafted her to join his harem and reluctantly

his bedmates, and Ava got

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

that bitch because she almost

as an act of kindness on

it as a way of reducing

too, and Gretchen was only trying

continue to warm his

that my mother’s selective memory was

women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but

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

with Maurice to let her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen

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

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