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

said, and she sighed and

I misbehaved the last time, and I

crime, and I

threatened to deal with Dominic if he caused you

are a fool

was angry, but I

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

“Your words and actions hurt her,

didn’t say

words like that don’t

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

a problem for me, so it was easy to think he

was Tamia that made me question the

factors, yet you were busy antagonising her and

am disappointed in you,

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

have my back,” I

“Do not say

gave birth to

threatened to disown him if he went for

why he

hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to

the older of you two, yet he has

that get to

all, Sylvester; he

live in your shadow for the rest of his

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

has worked on his insecurities and used

you locked the

gave birth to both

otherwise,” She said and bowed

about Tamia, but I am really concerned

knew she went to the west because

a brave thing to do on her

can’t say the same for

he has a grudge against this

was taken by

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

keep it down, and

is pale,” She said

be fine,” I said,

her?” She asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I

palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred

blood

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

her system is fighting whatever was

is pregnant,” I

grin spread

she said softly and looked at

“I hope she will give me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept it to

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

the couch area, and she

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she said

were

was Jake’s

stunning and

to join

Gretchen of all his bedmates, and

pleaded with Maurice to send her

hated that bitch because she almost took

it as an

it as a

too, and Gretchen was

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

my mother’s selective memory was her coping

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 held my

Gretchen in cold blood, driving a silver blade through

her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she

stopped touching Ava, and it

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