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.

her?” She asked, and I knew she

I said, and she sighed and bowed her

know I misbehaved the last time, and I am

is at serious crime, and I knew

threatened to deal with Dominic if

a

was angry, but I

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

words and actions hurt

though she didn’t say it, I

like that don’t get forgotten,” I said,

believed Dominic didn’t do it?

it was easy to think he would pull off that

that made me

look at other factors, yet you

disappointed in you,

the outside would say you didn’t birth me with how you

with him over me; you never have

not say that,

to

threatened to disown him if he went for

why he

say hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to feel

older of you two, yet he has nothing,

that get

all, Sylvester;

to live in your shadow for the rest of

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

on his insecurities and

was happy you locked

gave birth to

She said and

“I am sorry about Tamia, but I

she went to the west because of

on her part, and I commend

vindictive, but I can’t

next alpha, and he

was taken by your father,” she said and looked

me other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I

down, and she looked at Tamia, where

is pale,” She said with

be fine,” I said, and

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

and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred

the doctor take a blood sample?” She asked,

ingested a small amount of poison, and I also think she

fighting whatever was introduced

is pregnant,” I confirmed, and

grin spread across her

and looked at Tamia

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

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

the couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

Gretchen were

Jake’s

was stunning and a

her to join

favoured Gretchen of all his bedmates,

being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her sister In-law

that bitch because she almost took my husband from

see it as an

as a way of

bitch thought Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying to get rid of

to remain in his service and continue to warm

clear that my mother’s

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

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

her say, and instead of finding Maurice,

Ava, and it bothered her,”

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