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.

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

eyes close gradually until

Avery excused themselves,

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

opened the door, and she frowned at me. Not wanting her in my room, I

with her?” She asked, and

I said, and she

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 could see it. You called her

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.

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

part, and I commend her, but I am concerned. Jake isn’t vindictive, but

weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the

and she looked

is pale,” She said with concern,

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

know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there, I decided it wouldn’t be any

nails; Tamia stirred in her

the doctor take a blood sample?” She asked, and

poison, and I also think she is

fighting whatever was introduced into it,”

pregnant,” I confirmed, and she gasped.

and looked

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

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

Brighton. A bitch …” she said

Gretchen of all his bedmates, and Ava got jealous. 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 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 Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying to get rid of her. So she pleaded with Maurice to remain in his service and continue to warm his bed,” She said and wiped away her

clear that my mother’s

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

a silver blade through her heart in

Maurice to let her 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

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

we swept it under the carpet. No one knew this, but

send her to Brighton. I am sure they wanted to kill