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.

but I will still take her blood sample to test for other 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 alarm here. She will be alright when she wakes up; she just needs to rest,” he said, administered the sedative, and packed his things to

close gradually until

and Avery excused themselves, and

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 one that dared to do

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

asked, and I knew she must have

and she

caused you trouble. You are a fool for her. I was

it, I could see it. You called her a whore, among other things; words like

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

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 to him, so he is always eager to prove that you are flawed so he

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 next alpha, and he has a grudge against this family. Just like Devin, his mother was taken by your father,” she said and looked around

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

it down, and she looked at

pale,” She said

said she will be fine,” I said,

mind if I examine her?” She asked, and I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there, I decided it

checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did

blood sample?”

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

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

and she gasped.

and looked

I doubted Tamia would be

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

bitch …” she

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

that my mother’s selective memory was

be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method was fucked up, but I held my

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

finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in his bed naked, looking freshly fucked, and she snapped. You see,

one drunken night, he went to her cell and

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

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 Tamia’s