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.

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

eyes close gradually until she

excused themselves, and I stayed

knock on my door thirty minutes later, and I rushed to open it so the person did not bang too hard and wake Tamia up. I

the door, and she frowned at me. Not

with her?” She asked,

do you care?” I said, and she sighed and bowed her

am sorry. It was just that treason is a serious crime, and I knew they 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 knew she

I could see it. You called her a whore, among other things; words like that don’t get forgotten,” I said, and she

she was the only one that believed Dominic didn’t do it? She was the one that urged me to dig instead of passing judgment. Dominic has been a problem for me, so it 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 disappointed in you, mother. Anyone looking from the outside would say you didn’t birth me with how

all, Sylvester; he has nothing. He has to live in your shadow for the rest of his life.

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

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

down, and she looked at Tamia, where

said with concern, and I

fine,” I

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

palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but

take a blood

a small amount of poison, and I also think she

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

pregnant,” I confirmed, and she gasped. A wide grin spread across

she said softly and

said, and I doubted Tamia would

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

Brighton. A bitch …”

Maurice considered it. I hated that bitch because she almost took my husband from me. Ava did not see it as

clear that my mother’s selective memory was her coping

with those women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method was fucked up, but I

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

bed naked, looking freshly fucked, and

he went to her cell

it under the carpet. No one knew this, but Donald hates the Volkovs because of it.

hence 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 wanted to kill her. She just didn’t ingest enough,” she said, and I hoped for Jake’s sake there was nothing