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.

asked, and I

I said, and she sighed and bowed her

misbehaved the last

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

Dominic if

a fool

was angry, but I don’t hate

she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and that was a relationship she

“Your words and actions hurt her,

say it, I

her a whore, among other things; words like

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

so it was easy to think

made me

made me look at other factors, yet you were

am disappointed in you,

outside would say you didn’t birth me

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

not say

birth to

him if he went for the

why he

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

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

like that get to

have it all, Sylvester; he

in your shadow for the

so he is always eager to prove that you are flawed

his

you locked the

to

think otherwise,” She said and bowed

am sorry about Tamia, but I am

knew she went to the west because of

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

I can’t say the same

and he has a grudge against

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

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

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

She said with

said she will be fine,” I said,

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

her nails; Tamia stirred in

the doctor take a blood sample?” She asked, and

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

“No need for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said and patted her

pregnant,” I confirmed,

grin spread across her

and looked at

I doubted Tamia would

were going to tell me something about Donald Brighton, mother,”

couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

were brought as

was Jake’s

stunning

her to join his harem and reluctantly drafted

his bedmates,

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

as an act of kindness on her

saw it as a way of

and Gretchen was only

his service and continue to warm his bed,” She said and wiped

clear that my mother’s selective memory

those women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but

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

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

Ava, and it bothered her,” she said and bowed

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