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 I knew she must

do you care?” I said, and she

misbehaved the last time,

treason is at serious crime,

deal with Dominic if he

are a

was angry, but I don’t hate

home to calm down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with

words and actions hurt her,

didn’t say

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

do it?

was easy to think he

made me

factors, yet you were busy antagonising

disappointed in you,

you didn’t birth

never have

“Do not say that,

gave birth to

disown him if he went

why he

Dominic, but I

yet he has nothing, no position, no

like that get

all, Sylvester; he

to live in your shadow for the

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

his

happy you locked the

to both

think otherwise,” She

“I am sorry about Tamia, but I am

she went to

on her part, and I commend

vindictive, but I can’t say the same

and he has a grudge

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

to hear, so I opened the

her to keep it down, and she looked

pale,” She said

she will be fine,” I said, and she

mind if I examine her?” She asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there, I decided it wouldn’t be

and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in

take a blood sample?” She asked, and I

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

for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She

pregnant,” I confirmed,

spread across

softly and looked at

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

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

couch area, and she

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she

and Gretchen were brought

was Jake’s

was stunning and a

father eagerly drafted her to join his harem

favoured Gretchen of all his bedmates, and Ava

to send her sister In-law back to her husband, and

bitch because she

did not see it as an act

a way of reducing

Gretchen was only

Maurice to remain in his service and continue to warm his bed,”

was clear that my mother’s selective

be ahead of them,

cold blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in

let her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she

stopped touching Ava, and it bothered

he went to her cell and