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.

sedative to help her relax and sleep it off, but there

eyes close gradually

Avery excused themselves,

did not bang too hard and wake Tamia up.

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

She asked, and I knew

care?” I said, and she sighed

are a fool for her. I was angry, but I don’t hate her. I

she didn’t say it, I could see it. You called her a whore, among other

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

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 gets to him, so he is always eager

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

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

her to keep it down, and she looked at

is pale,” She said with concern, and I

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

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

Tamia’s forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in

doctor take a blood sample?” She

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

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

gasped. A wide

she said softly and looked at Tamia

said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again,

something about Donald Brighton, mother,” I said, and

Brighton. A bitch …”

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

was 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

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

plead with Maurice to let her say, and instead of finding Maurice, she found Gretchen in his bed naked, looking freshly fucked,

he went to her cell and took

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

last name. It was wrong to send her to Brighton. I am sure