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.

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

close gradually

and Avery excused themselves, and I stayed with

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

she frowned at me. Not

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

care?” I said, and she sighed

trouble. You are a fool for her. I was angry, but I

words and actions hurt her, mother. Even though she didn’t say it, I could see it. You called her a whore, among other things; words like that don’t

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 from the

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 in your shadow for the rest of

because of you. It was a brave thing to do on her part, and I commend her, but I am concerned. Jake isn’t vindictive, but I can’t say the same for Donald Brighton. He is the

things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door to my room and

signalled her to keep it down, and she

is pale,” She said with concern, and I

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

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

forehead and palm and checked her nails;

a blood sample?” She

also think she is pregnant,”

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

and she gasped. A wide grin spread

and

me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again,

going to tell me something about Donald Brighton, mother,” I said, and she nodded. We moved to the couch area, and

Brighton. A bitch …” she said

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

that my mother’s selective memory was her coping

learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method was fucked

Gretchen in cold blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in

with 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 Ava, and it bothered her,” she

night, he went to her cell

law. Ava was supposed to stand trial for her crime, slave or not. But he acted on impulse, and 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 knows the truth,” She

bloodline are quiet and not bearing our last name. It was wrong to send her to Brighton. I am sure they wanted