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.

She asked, and I knew she must

and she sighed

the last time, and I

at serious crime, and

deal with Dominic if he

a fool

angry, but

home to calm 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 would

“Your words and actions hurt

she didn’t say it, I could

called her a whore, among other things; words like that don’t get forgotten,” I said, and

only one that believed Dominic didn’t do it? She was

so it was easy to think he

Tamia that made

at other factors, yet you were busy antagonising her

disappointed

say you

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

“Do not say

to

disown him if he went for the

was why he

say hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to feel

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

that

have it all, Sylvester; he

has to live in your shadow for the rest

gets to him, so he is always eager to prove that you are flawed

on his insecurities and used

happy you locked the

birth to both of

think otherwise,” She said and bowed

Tamia, but I am

went to the west

do on her part,

but I can’t say the same for

alpha, and he has a grudge

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

she wanted to tell me other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door

her to keep it down, and

is pale,” She said with concern, and I

said she will be fine,” I said, and she looked

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

checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did not

doctor take a blood sample?” She

I also think she is pregnant,” she said, and I was panicked because she could be

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

is pregnant,” I

wide grin spread across her

softly and looked at

I doubted Tamia

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

to the couch

“Yes, Ava Brighton.

she said

were

Jake’s younger

was stunning and a

to join his harem

Gretchen of all his bedmates, and

nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her

that bitch because she almost took

as an act of kindness on her

as a way of reducing her

her too, and Gretchen was only trying

in his service and continue

mother’s selective memory was her coping

say he had to sleep with those women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was

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

touching Ava, and it bothered

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