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.

wrong with her?” She asked,

said, and she

last time, and I

that treason is at serious crime, and I knew

Dominic if he caused you

a fool for

was angry, but I don’t hate

and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable

“Your words and

though she didn’t say it, I

words like that don’t get forgotten,” I

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

it was easy to think he would pull

was Tamia that made

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

am disappointed in

the outside would say you

with him over me; you never have

“Do not say

to

him if he went for the

why he

but I have to

is the older of you two, yet he has nothing,

that get to

it all, Sylvester; he

in your shadow for the

he is always eager to prove that you are

has worked on his

happy you locked the douchebag

gave birth to both of

not ever think otherwise,” She said and

about Tamia, but I

she went to

a brave thing to do on her part, and I commend her,

isn’t vindictive, but I can’t say the same for

the next alpha, and he has a grudge against this

taken by your father,” she said and looked

weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened

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

pale,” She said with concern,

will be fine,” I said, and

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

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

doctor take a blood sample?” She asked, and

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

for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into

is pregnant,” I confirmed,

wide grin spread across her

said softly and looked

another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would

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

couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

were brought

was Jake’s

was stunning

to join his harem and reluctantly

favoured Gretchen of all his bedmates, and

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

hated that bitch because she almost took my

did not see it as an act of kindness on

it as a way of reducing her

her too, and Gretchen was only trying to get rid

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

was clear that my mother’s selective

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

cold blood, driving a silver blade through

say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen

touching Ava, and it

went to her cell and took her life,” she said, and I