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.

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

watched Tamia’s eyes close gradually until she

themselves, and I stayed with

open it so the person did not bang too hard and wake Tamia up. I knew it was my mother. She was

she frowned at me. Not wanting her in my room, I stepped

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

do you care?” I said, and

want to kill Dominic. Tamia threatened to deal with Dominic if he caused you 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, and I knew she was being honest, but Tamia wasn’t comfortable with her anymore,

see it. You called her a whore, among other things; words like that don’t get forgotten,”

it was easy to think he would pull off that stunt. It was Tamia that made me question the enforcer. She was 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, mother. Anyone looking

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 in your shadow for the rest of his life. It is not your fault, but I know it gets

thing to do on her part, and I commend her, but I am concerned. Jake

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

it down, and she looked at Tamia,

said with concern,

I said, and she

Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there,

her nails; Tamia stirred in

a blood sample?” She asked, and

she ingested a small amount of poison, and I also think she

need for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into it,” She said and patted her hair

I confirmed, and she gasped. A wide grin spread across

softly and looked at Tamia

chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would

said, and she nodded. We moved to the

bitch

Gretchen thought she was being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her sister In-law back to her husband, and Maurice considered it. I hated that bitch because

my 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 admitting that his method was fucked up,

silver blade through

to plead with Maurice to let her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in his bed naked, looking freshly fucked, and she

one drunken night, he went to her cell and

No one knew this, but Donald hates the Volkovs because of it. He thinks

and not 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