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, and I knew

you care?” I said, and

misbehaved the last time, and

just that treason is at serious crime, and I knew

with Dominic if he

a fool

was angry, but I don’t hate

down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore, and that was a relationship she

“Your words and

though she didn’t say

whore, among other things; words like that don’t get forgotten,”

that believed Dominic didn’t do it? She

for me, so it was easy to

was Tamia that made me

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

disappointed in

you didn’t birth me with how

have my back,” I said, tears streaming down

not say

birth to both of

disown him if he went for

was why

but I have to feel

older of you two, yet he has nothing, no position, no

like that

it all, Sylvester; he has

has to live in your shadow for

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

worked on his

you

to both

otherwise,” She said and bowed

sorry about Tamia, but I

went to the

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

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

and he has a grudge

by your father,”

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

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

She said with

I said, and she looked

I examine her?” She asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there, I decided it wouldn’t

Tamia’s forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred

blood sample?” She asked, and I

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

system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She

is pregnant,” I confirmed, and

wide grin spread across her

she said softly and looked

I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept

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

the couch area, and she

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

bitch…” she

and Gretchen were brought as

was Jake’s

stunning and a

her to join his harem and

his bedmates, and Ava

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

hated that bitch because she almost

as an act

saw it as a way of

Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only

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

was clear that my mother’s selective

and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that

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

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

and it bothered her,” she said and bowed her

in the dungeon, and one drunken night, he went to her cell and took her life,” she