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.

is wrong with her?” She asked,

I said, and she sighed

the last time, and I

serious crime, and I knew they would

threatened to deal with Dominic if he

are a fool

was angry, but I

said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and that was a

“Your words and actions hurt her,

say it, I

a whore, among other things; words like

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

me, so it was

made me question the

factors, yet

disappointed in

you didn’t birth

never have my back,” I said, tears

not

gave birth to both

to disown him if he went for

was why he

also say hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to

yet he has nothing, no

that get

have it all, Sylvester; he has

live in your shadow

I know it gets to him, so he is always eager to prove that you are flawed so he can feel

worked on his insecurities and used

was happy you locked the

to

She said and bowed her

am sorry about Tamia, but I am

she went to

her part, and I commend her, but I

but I can’t say the same

next alpha, and he has a grudge against this

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

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

and she looked at

is pale,” She said

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

asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there,

checked her nails;

take a blood sample?”

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

need for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced

pregnant,” I confirmed,

spread

and

will give me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be

about Donald Brighton,

the couch area, and she

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

Gretchen were brought

Jake’s younger

stunning and a

father eagerly drafted 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

bitch because she almost took my

it as an act

as a way of

liked her too, and Gretchen was

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

clear that my mother’s selective memory was her

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

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

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

stopped touching Ava, and it bothered

and one drunken night, he went to her cell and took her