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 knew she must

and she

last

was just that treason is at serious crime, and I knew

to deal with Dominic

a fool

but I don’t hate

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

“Your words and actions hurt her,

she didn’t say it,

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

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

it was easy to think he

Tamia that made me question the

that made me look at other factors,

disappointed in

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

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

“Do not

gave birth to both of

if he went for the

was why

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

is the older of you two, yet he has nothing,

like that get

all, Sylvester;

shadow for the rest of his

to him, so he

his insecurities and used

you locked the

gave birth to both of

ever think otherwise,” She

but I am really concerned

knew she went to the west

her part, and I commend her, but I am

I can’t say the same for

alpha, and he

Devin, his mother was taken by your father,” she said

to hear, so I opened the door to my

signalled her to keep it down, and

said with concern, and

will be fine,” I said, and

She asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel about

touched Tamia’s forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did

the doctor take a blood sample?” She asked,

of poison, and I also think she

system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said and patted

pregnant,” I confirmed,

grin spread across

and looked

she will give me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept it to

going to tell me something about

the couch area, and

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she said

and Gretchen were brought

Jake’s

stunning and

eagerly drafted her to join his harem and

his bedmates,

with Maurice to send her sister In-law back to

she almost

it as an act of kindness

saw it as a

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

and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method was

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

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

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

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