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.

is wrong with her?” She asked, and I knew she must have

do you care?” I said, and she

the last time, and I

treason is at serious crime, and I knew they

with Dominic if he caused you

a fool

angry, but I

just went to my family home to calm down and think things through.” She said, and I knew she was

words and actions hurt

didn’t say it, I could

other things; words like that don’t get forgotten,” I said,

believed Dominic didn’t do it? She

so it was easy to think he would pull

was Tamia that made

factors, yet you were busy antagonising her

am disappointed

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

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

not say

birth to both of

if

why he

say hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to feel sorry

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

that

all, Sylvester;

shadow for the rest of his

so he is always eager to prove that you are flawed so he can feel

his insecurities

you locked the

to

She

“I am sorry about Tamia, but I am

knew she went to the west because of

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

isn’t vindictive, but I can’t say

is the next alpha, and he has a grudge against this

his mother was taken by your father,” she said

tell me other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door to my room and let her

it down, and she looked at Tamia,

is pale,” She said with concern,

said she will be fine,” I said,

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

her nails; Tamia stirred in

take a blood sample?” She asked, and I

of poison, and I also think she is pregnant,”

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

pregnant,” I confirmed, and

spread across

said softly and looked

chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept it

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

the couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she

and Gretchen were brought

was Jake’s

stunning and a

eagerly drafted her to join his harem and reluctantly

his bedmates, and Ava

when she pleaded with Maurice to send her

bitch because she almost took my husband

not see it as an act of kindness

it as a way of reducing her

bitch thought Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying to get

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

mother’s selective memory

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

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

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

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

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