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.

recovering from it. I will give her a mild sedative to help her relax and sleep

eyes close gradually until

Avery excused themselves, and I

minutes later, and I rushed to open it so the person did not bang too hard and

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

asked, and I knew

I said, and she sighed and

would 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

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

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

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

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

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

and she looked at

pale,” She said with

be fine,” I said, and she

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

checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did

take a blood sample?”

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

was introduced into

and she gasped. A wide

she said softly and looked at

give me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia

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

A bitch …” she said

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

mother’s

she would 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

blade through her heart

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 said and bowed her

dungeon, and one drunken night, he went to her cell and took her life,” she said, and I

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

why the rest of the Volkov bloodline are quiet and not bearing our last name. It was wrong to send her to Brighton. I am sure they