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

and she sighed and

the last

was just that treason is at serious crime, and I knew they

with Dominic if he caused

are a fool for

angry, but I don’t hate

things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her

and actions

she didn’t say it, I could

other things; words like

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

it was easy to think he would

that made

that made me look at other factors, yet you

disappointed

from the outside would say you didn’t

side with him over me; you never have my back,” I

not

to

disown him if he went

why he

Dominic, but I

you two, yet he has nothing,

like that get to

it all, Sylvester; he

has to live in your shadow

he is always eager to prove that you are

has worked on his insecurities

happy you locked

birth to both

not ever think otherwise,” She said

am sorry about Tamia, but I am

to the west

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

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

next alpha, and he has a

like Devin, his mother was taken by

to hear,

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

said with concern, and I

fine,” I said, and she

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

and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep

blood sample?” She asked, and I

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

need for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said and patted

I confirmed,

spread across her

and looked at Tamia

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

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

to the couch area,

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she said

Gretchen were brought as

Jake’s younger

was stunning

father eagerly drafted her to join his harem and reluctantly

Gretchen of all his bedmates, and Ava

when she pleaded with Maurice to send her

bitch because she almost took my husband

it as an act of kindness on her

a way

Gretchen was only trying

with Maurice to remain in his service and continue to warm his bed,”

mother’s selective memory

learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them,

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

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

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

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