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.

She asked, and I knew she must have

I said, and she sighed and bowed

last

serious crime, and I knew they

deal with Dominic if

are a

but I don’t

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

words and actions hurt her,

say

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

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

has been a problem for me, so it was easy to think he would pull off that

was Tamia that made me question the

the one that made me look at other factors, yet you were busy antagonising

disappointed in

say you didn’t birth me with how

have my back,” I said, tears

not say that,

birth to both of

disown him if he went

was why

hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to feel

you two, yet he has nothing,

that

have it all, Sylvester;

live in your shadow for the rest of

know it gets to him, so he is always eager to prove that you

his insecurities and used

was happy you locked the

to

think otherwise,” She

am sorry about Tamia, but I am really

knew she went to the west because

on her part,

can’t say the same for Donald

next alpha, and he has a

his mother was taken by your father,”

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

signalled her to keep it down, and

is pale,” She said

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

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

and checked her nails; Tamia stirred

a blood sample?” She

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

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

is pregnant,” I

wide grin spread across

softly and looked at

said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice

something about Donald Brighton, mother,” I

moved to the couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she said

were

was Jake’s younger

stunning

eagerly drafted her to join his harem and

Gretchen of all his bedmates,

thought she was being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to

because she almost took my husband from

it as an act of kindness on her

saw it as a way of

Gretchen was only trying to get

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

my mother’s selective

secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting

cold blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in

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

Maurice had stopped touching Ava, and it

he went to her