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,

said, and she sighed and bowed

the last time,

treason is at serious crime, and I knew

threatened to deal with Dominic if he caused

a fool for

but I don’t

to calm down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but

words and

didn’t say

her a whore, among other things; words like that

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

for me, so it was easy to think

was Tamia that made me question the

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

disappointed

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

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

not say that,

birth to both

if he went

why he

Dominic, but I have to

of you two, yet he has nothing,

like that get to

have it all, Sylvester;

to live in your shadow for the rest of his

so he

has worked on his insecurities and

was happy you locked

to

think otherwise,” She said and bowed her

am sorry about Tamia, but

to the

brave thing to do on her part, and I commend her, but I

but I can’t say the same for

he has a grudge against this

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

I realised she wanted to tell me other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door to my room and let her

down, and she looked at Tamia, where

pale,” She said with concern, and

she will be fine,” I said, and she looked

Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there, I decided it

and palm and checked her nails; Tamia

blood

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

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

is pregnant,” I confirmed, and she

wide grin spread across her

softly and

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

something about Donald Brighton, mother,” I

the couch area, and she

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

were brought as

Jake’s younger

was stunning and

to join his harem

all his bedmates, and Ava got

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

that bitch because she almost took my husband

not see it as an act of kindness

a way

thought Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying

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

clear that my mother’s

learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method

cold blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in

finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in

touching Ava, and it

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