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,

do you care?” I said, and she

know I misbehaved the last time, and I am

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

Dominic if he caused

are a

angry, but I

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

“Your words and actions

she didn’t say it,

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

only one that believed Dominic didn’t do it?

has been a problem for me, so it was easy

made

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

am disappointed in

the outside would say you

always side with him over me; you never have my back,” I said,

not say

gave birth to both

threatened to disown him if he

was why he

things to Dominic, but I have

of you two, yet he

like that

it all,

to live in your shadow for the rest of his

he is always eager to

on his

you locked the douchebag

gave birth to both

not ever think otherwise,” She said and bowed

am sorry about Tamia, but I

knew she went to the

her part, and I

can’t say the same for

next alpha, and he has a

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

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

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

She said

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

know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there,

nails;

a blood sample?” She asked, and

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

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

pregnant,” I confirmed,

spread across

softly and looked at

“I hope she will give me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia

me something about Donald Brighton, mother,” I said, and

the couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she said

and Gretchen were

Jake’s

stunning

her to join his harem and reluctantly

his bedmates, and

thought she was being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her sister In-law back to her

bitch because she almost took my

it as an act of kindness

as a way of

too, and Gretchen

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

clear that my mother’s selective memory was her

had to sleep with those women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his

murdered Gretchen in cold blood, driving a silver blade through her

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

stopped touching Ava, and it bothered her,”

one drunken night, he went to