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 she must

and

I misbehaved the last time, and I am

treason is at serious crime,

Dominic

are a

angry, but

family home to calm down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t

“Your words and actions

though she didn’t say it, I

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

it? She was the one that urged me to dig instead of

me, so it was easy to

Tamia that made me question the

that made me look at other factors,

am disappointed

outside would say you didn’t birth me with

with him over me; you never have my back,” I said, tears streaming down

“Do not say

birth to both of

threatened to disown him if he went

why

Dominic, but I have to

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

like that get

have it all, Sylvester; he has

has to live in your shadow for the

but I know it gets to him, so he is always

his insecurities

happy you locked the

to both of

not ever think otherwise,” She said and bowed her

“I am sorry about Tamia, but I am really

knew she went to the west

to do on her part, and

but I can’t say

and he

Devin, his mother was taken by your father,” she said and looked around

other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so

signalled her to keep it down, and she looked at

is pale,” She said

fine,” I said,

her?” She asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel

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

doctor take a blood sample?” She asked,

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

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

is pregnant,” I confirmed, and

grin spread

she said softly and looked

hope she will give me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept it

something about

the couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she said

and Gretchen were brought as

was Jake’s younger

stunning and

eagerly drafted her to join his harem and reluctantly drafted

favoured Gretchen of all his bedmates, and Ava got

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

she almost took my husband

not see it as an act of kindness on her

as a way of reducing

too, and Gretchen

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

my mother’s

she would say he had 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 my

murdered Gretchen in cold blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in this

instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in his

touching Ava, and it bothered her,”

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