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 and bowed

last time, and I am

crime, and I knew they would want to

threatened to deal with Dominic if

are a fool for

angry, but I

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

words and actions hurt

didn’t say it, I

called her a whore, among other things; words like

it? She was the one that

was

that made me question the

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

disappointed in

you didn’t birth me with how you

me; you never have my

not say that,

birth to both

him if he went for

was why

also say hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to

the older of you two, yet he has nothing, no

like that

have it all, Sylvester;

live in your shadow for the

fault, but I know it gets to him, so he is

has worked on his insecurities and

was happy you locked

birth to both of

She

but I am really concerned

went to the

to do on her part, and I

vindictive, but I can’t say the same for

alpha, and he has a grudge

mother was taken by your father,” she said

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

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

She said with concern,

said she will be fine,” I

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

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

the doctor take a blood sample?” She

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

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

pregnant,” I confirmed, and she

wide grin spread across

softly and

said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept it

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

the couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

Gretchen were brought as

Jake’s

stunning

to join his harem and reluctantly drafted

favoured Gretchen of all his bedmates, and Ava

with Maurice to send her sister In-law back

because she almost took my husband

see it as an

a way

Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying to

and continue to warm his bed,” She said and wiped away her

was clear that my mother’s selective memory was her coping

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

a silver blade through her heart in

with Maurice to let her say, and instead of finding Maurice,

stopped touching Ava, and it bothered her,”

one drunken night, he went to