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

care?” I said, and she sighed and bowed her

I misbehaved the last time, and I

that treason is at serious crime, and I knew they would want

threatened to deal with Dominic

are a

angry, but I

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

words and actions

she didn’t say it, I could

things; words like that don’t

do it? She was the

has been a problem for me, so it was

was Tamia that made me question the

at other factors, yet you were busy antagonising her and making her

am disappointed

from the outside would say you didn’t birth me with how

never have my back,” I said, tears streaming

“Do not say

to both of

disown him if he went for

why he

hurtful things to Dominic, but I have

yet he has nothing,

that get

all, Sylvester; he

to live in your shadow for

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

on his insecurities and used

you

to both of

not ever think otherwise,” She

am sorry about Tamia, but

went to the west because

thing to do on her

I can’t say the same for

he has a grudge against

like Devin, his mother was taken by your

wanted to tell me other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened

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

said with concern, and

fine,” I

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

and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did

a blood sample?” She asked, and I

she

whatever was introduced into it, “She said and

I confirmed, and

grin spread

softly and

another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that

tell me something about Donald Brighton, mother,” I

the couch area, and

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she said

and Gretchen were brought as

Jake’s

stunning and

to join

Gretchen of all his bedmates, and

she was being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her sister In-law back to her husband, and Maurice

hated that bitch because she almost took my husband from

an

as a way of

bitch thought Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying to

with Maurice to remain in his service and continue to

my mother’s selective memory was her coping

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 I held

in cold blood, driving a silver blade through her

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

Ava, and it

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