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.

She asked,

do you care?” I said, and she sighed and

know I misbehaved the last time,

just that treason is at serious crime, and

Dominic if he caused you

are a fool

angry, but I don’t

my family home to calm down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia

“Your words and actions hurt her,

didn’t say it, I could

other things; words like

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

it was easy to

was Tamia that made me

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

am disappointed

you didn’t birth me

him over me; you never have my back,”

“Do not

birth to both

disown him if he

was why

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

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

like that

it all, Sylvester; he has

your shadow for the rest of

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

has worked on his insecurities and

was happy you locked the

to both

otherwise,” She said and bowed

Tamia, but I am really concerned

went to

her part, and I commend her,

isn’t vindictive, but I can’t say

alpha, and he has a grudge against this

by your father,”

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

signalled her to keep it down, and she

is pale,” She said with concern,

fine,” I said, and she looked

mind if I examine her?” She asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but

her nails; Tamia

blood sample?” She asked, and

think she is pregnant,” she said, and I was

is fighting whatever was introduced

is pregnant,” I

wide grin spread across her

she said softly and looked at

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

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

couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she

and Gretchen were brought as

Jake’s

stunning and

father eagerly drafted her to join

all his bedmates, and Ava

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

that bitch because she almost took my husband from

an act of kindness on

a way of reducing

too, and Gretchen was only trying to get rid

and continue to warm his bed,” She said and

my mother’s selective memory

ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method

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

her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in

Maurice had stopped touching Ava, and it bothered her,”

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