The Dark Side Of Fate

~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.

“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.

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,

close gradually until she

and Avery excused themselves, and I stayed with

not bang too hard and wake Tamia up. I knew it was my mother. She was

the door, and she frowned at me. Not wanting her in

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

and she sighed and bowed her

trouble. You are a fool for her. I was angry, but I don’t hate her. I just went to my family home to calm down and think things through.” She said,

You called her a whore, among other things; words

the one that made me look at other factors, yet you were busy antagonising her and making her feel inadequate. I am disappointed in you,

to both of you. I threatened to disown him if he went for the hearing. That was why he stayed. I also say hurtful things to Dominic, but I have to feel sorry for him. He is the older of you two, yet he has nothing, no position, no charge and respect. Things like that get to people. You have it all, Sylvester; he has nothing. He has to live

concerned. Jake isn’t vindictive, but I can’t say the

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

to keep it down, and she looked

said with concern, and I

I said,

her?” 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

a blood

I also think she

whatever was introduced into it,” She said

gasped. A

she said softly and looked at Tamia

I doubted

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

Ava Brighton. A bitch …” she said

to send her sister In-law back to her husband, and Maurice considered it. I hated that bitch because she almost took my husband from me. Ava did not see it as an act of kindness on her part. She saw it as a way of reducing her competition. The bitch thought

my mother’s

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

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

say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in his bed naked, looking freshly fucked, and she snapped. You see, Maurice had stopped touching

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

we swept it under the carpet. No one knew this, but Donald hates the Volkovs because of it. He thinks his mother was brought here as a slave and killed unjustly. I doubt Jake

bearing our last name. It was wrong to send her to Brighton. I am sure they wanted to kill her. She just didn’t ingest enough,” she said, and I hoped for Jake’s sake there was nothing in