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, and I knew she must

care?” I said, and she sighed

misbehaved the last time, and I

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

threatened to deal with Dominic

are a

but I don’t hate

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 her anymore, and that was a relationship she would

and actions hurt her,

didn’t say it, I

other things; words like that don’t get

didn’t do it? She was the one that urged me to

it was easy to think he

Tamia that made

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

am disappointed

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

never have my back,” I said, tears streaming down her

not

birth to both of

disown him if he went for

why he

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

yet he has nothing,

that get to

it all,

live in your shadow

so he is always eager

on his

you locked the

to

otherwise,” She said and

but I am really concerned for

knew she went to the west because

her part, and I commend her,

I can’t say the same for

alpha, and he has a grudge

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

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

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

said with

be fine,” I said, and she

how Tamia would

Tamia’s forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did not

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

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

system is fighting whatever was

is pregnant,” I confirmed, and

wide grin spread

said softly and

chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept it

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

moved to the couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she said

Gretchen were brought

was Jake’s younger

stunning and a

her to join

all his bedmates, and Ava got

thought she was being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her

hated that bitch because she almost took my husband from

not see it as an act of kindness on her

it as a way of

liked her too, and Gretchen was

service and continue to warm his bed,” She said

my mother’s selective memory was her

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

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

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

it bothered her,” she

night, he went