Shadows of Destiny

The Rest Of It -Sylvester- I was speechless.

My mother sat on the couch and was weeping.

I could see she was afraid, and I understood why.

She had committed treason.

I sighed and looked at her.

I could see she was tired and wondered how much she was hiding.

“Is there anything else, mother, that I need to know?” I asked her, and she looked at me.

It was hard for her, but she knew her game was up.

“I hated her.” She confessed, and I did not need to guess who she was talking about.

“She came to my house uninvited and told me that she was tired of the money she was getting from me and she needed to get justice for Maurice.

She was on to something, and I knew she would do it.

I do not know if it had anything to do with the bastard that Maurice took from her, but she was broken, and she came to vent her anger on me,” my mother said, and I sighed.

“She said I was an idiot and could not take care of business.

She bragged to me that I was a fool.

She told me she was the one that helped me get rid of my competition.

1 I only had one competition when it came to your father, and that was Alissa.

She told me how she paid the doctor to inject silver into her system.

Silver doesn’t kill us; it only stops us from healing and makes us weak, which was what it did to Alissa the day she gave birth.

The doctor registered her cause of death as an extreme case of preeclampsia.

She bragged that I would not be able to prove it because, unlike me, she knew how to tidy up her mess.

The doctor died a month after Alissa passed away.

We didn’t see it as anything when it happened, but I figured it out when she told I knew Jenny was crazy, but I did not realise how crazy she was until she said what she said.

After she bragged about what she did to Alissa, she said I reaped the benefit of her hard work but not anymore,” my mother said I knew where it was going, but I held my tongue to let her speak.

“I did not know she was screwing your father when I asked her to help secure the Balyaev seat.

I found out after he died, and she thought that was why I had him killed.

She claimed she loved your father, but it was all a lie.

She was a bloody social climber.

She dated Gavin Orlov in secret.

I knew but kept her secret because her husband was late by then.

1 I did not know she was also screwing my husband when I learned about her and Gavin.

I found out after Devin had killed him, and I was mad.

Jenny was a bloody social climber.

She married Jerry Babanin because his family was higher than hers.

she tried to get with my brother,

to aim higher, so she went after the eldest, Orlovs, and one day I found out

to be at

The bitch.

I could have something on her and get her off my back, but I found out she had

sending her threatening messages hoping she would be so scared and maybe run away, but the bitch always kept her shit together, so I stopped.” She said, and I remembered the anonymous blackmail letters

I had seen those letters so she would

her two hundred thousand Lakhs every three

name, but once

pretended

day she died, she came

where she wanted and could dispose

let me keep my miserable life because

her child with Maurice, and

Maurice took her son away from her and how she envied me because

was

between a legitimate child and

said it was time for her to raise the matter in

kappa Melvick were there when she made all those statements; they didn’t believe her, of course,

with her guards for

happened

was leaving and said she would get you off your seat and end the

always made good on her threats, I knew I could not let

my men, but we had the upper

with the silver switch knife she always had on

got scared because they had killed a high council member, so I told them what they would say before I passed out,” She said,

me, and

must have been a

know my secret, Sylvester; please do not hate me and do not tell

He would never understand.

said, pleading with me, and I nodded and

She cried in my arms, and I could only imagine the amount

no choice but to

was not going to back

read the woman’s

sick and rotten

It was good riddance.

his men meant well, do not let them suffer; they believe they were protecting our family from a mad woman,” She

told her to calm down, patting

okay, mother, your secret is safe with me,” I said, and she broke the hug and stared

with genuine fear in her eyes, and I shook my head and held her hands that were shaking so she

figured it out, mother,” I

evidence from everyone and

your

baby and me, and she kept it,” I

“I am grateful, Sylvester.

I am grateful..” she said,

She was relieved.

me in my mother’s room,” I linked my

my mother to believe that Tamia was on her side because

my mother, and there was a knock on the

mother broke the hug and wiped away her tears

me

went on her knees to

her hands together,

Tamia, do not

I am begging you.

no choice..” she said, and Tamia

and hugged my