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 her

last time,

just that treason is at serious crime,

Dominic if he caused you

are a

but I don’t hate

things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and that

words and

she didn’t say it, I

called her a whore, among other things; words like that

only one that believed Dominic didn’t do it? She was the one that urged me to dig instead of passing

a problem for me, so it was easy to think

Tamia that made me question

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

disappointed

say you didn’t birth

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

not say

birth to both of

threatened to disown him if

why

Dominic, but I have to feel sorry for

of you two, yet he has nothing, no position, no charge

like that get

all, Sylvester; he has

to live in your shadow for the rest

him, so he is always eager to prove that

worked on his insecurities and

you locked the douchebag

birth to

ever think otherwise,” She said and bowed

Tamia, but I am really

knew she went to the west because

was a brave thing to do on her

vindictive, but I can’t say the same for

he has a grudge against

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

people weren’t supposed to hear, so I

down, and she looked at

She said with concern, and I

I said, and she looked at

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

forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her

take a blood

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

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

I

grin spread across her

softly and looked at

me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia

to tell me something about Donald Brighton,

couch area, and she

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

Gretchen were

Jake’s

was stunning and a

her to join his harem and reluctantly drafted

favoured Gretchen of all his bedmates, and Ava

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

because she almost took

see it as an

saw it as a way

Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying to

she pleaded with Maurice to remain in his service and continue to warm his bed,” She said and wiped away

that my mother’s selective memory was

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

cold blood, driving a silver blade through

say, and instead of finding Maurice,

and it bothered her,” she

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