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.

is already recovering from it. I will give her a mild sedative to help her relax and sleep it off, but

eyes close gradually until she fell

excused themselves, and I

my door thirty minutes later, and I rushed to open it so the person did not bang too hard and wake Tamia up. I knew it was my mother. She was the only

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

She asked, and I

I said, and she sighed and bowed

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

though she didn’t say it, I could see it. You called

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 outside would say you didn’t birth me with

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

I commend her, but I am concerned. Jake isn’t vindictive, but I can’t say the same for Donald Brighton. He

weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door to

to keep it down, and

is pale,” She said with concern,

be fine,” I

Tamia would feel about

and checked her nails; Tamia stirred

a blood sample?” She

a small amount of poison, and I also think she is pregnant,” she said, and I was

system is fighting whatever was introduced into it,” She said and

confirmed, and she gasped. A wide grin spread across

said softly and looked

said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept it

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

bitch …” she

to join his harem and reluctantly drafted Ava. He favoured 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

clear that my mother’s selective memory was her coping

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

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

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,

the dungeon, and one drunken night, he went to her cell and took her

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

not bearing our last name. It was wrong to send her to Brighton. I am sure they wanted to kill her. She