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.

asked, and I knew she must

you care?” I said, and she sighed and bowed her

know I misbehaved the last time, and I am

crime,

threatened to deal with Dominic if he caused you

are a fool for

angry, but I don’t

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 have

and actions

she didn’t say it,

called her a whore, among other things; words like that don’t get forgotten,”

do it? She was the one that urged me to dig instead of passing

has been a problem for me, so it was

was Tamia that made me question the

other factors, yet you were busy antagonising her and

disappointed in you,

you didn’t birth me with how you

you never have my

not say

to both

if

was why he

things to Dominic, but

yet he has nothing, no position, no

that get

all, Sylvester; he has

in your shadow for the rest of his

him, so he

has worked on his insecurities

was happy you locked the

birth to both of

ever think otherwise,” She said and bowed

“I am sorry about Tamia, but I

to the west

on her

I can’t

and he has a

taken by your

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

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

said with concern,

said she will be fine,” I

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

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

take a blood sample?”

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

system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said

is pregnant,” I

spread

said softly and looked at

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

me something about Donald Brighton, mother,”

the couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

were brought as

Jake’s

was stunning and a

to join his

his bedmates,

being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her sister In-law back to her husband, and Maurice considered

hated that bitch because she

as an act of

it as a way of

liked her too, and Gretchen was

his service and continue to warm his bed,” She said and

clear that my mother’s

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

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

instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in his bed naked, looking freshly fucked, and

stopped touching Ava, and it bothered her,” she said

had her locked up in the dungeon, and one drunken night, he went to her