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 must

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

know I misbehaved the last time, and

at serious crime, and I knew they would

with Dominic if he caused

a

but I

was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and that was a relationship

“Your words and

didn’t say it,

words like that don’t

was the only one that believed Dominic didn’t do it? She was

for me, so it was easy to think

Tamia that made me question the

me look at other factors, yet you were busy antagonising her and making

am disappointed in you,

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

have my back,” I said, tears

“Do not say

to both

if

was why

to Dominic, but

is the older of you two, yet he

that

it all, Sylvester;

shadow for the rest of his

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

his insecurities

you locked

birth to both

think otherwise,” She said and bowed her

Tamia, but

went to the west because

on her part, and I commend her, but I am

but I can’t say the same for

next alpha, and he has a grudge

like Devin, his mother was taken by your father,” she

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

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

She said with concern,

will be fine,” I said, and she

I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there, I decided it wouldn’t be

her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep

blood sample?” She asked, and

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

is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said and patted

is pregnant,” I

spread across

she said softly and

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

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

moved to the couch area, and she

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

Gretchen were brought as

Jake’s

stunning

eagerly drafted her to join his

favoured Gretchen of all his bedmates, and Ava got

with Maurice to send

she almost took

did not see it as an act of kindness on her

as a way of reducing her

liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying

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

that my mother’s selective memory was

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

silver blade through her heart in this room,” she said, looking

to let her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found

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

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