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.

other things. If there is anything, she is already recovering from it. I will give her a mild sedative to help her

eyes close gradually

themselves, and I stayed

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

at me. Not wanting her in my

She asked, and I

said, and

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,

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

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

why he stayed. I also say hurtful things to Dominic, but I 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

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

wanted to tell me other things people weren’t supposed to hear, so I

down, and

is pale,” She said with

she will be fine,” I said,

I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I was there, I decided it wouldn’t

her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did not wake

blood sample?” She

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

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

gasped.

she said softly and looked

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

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

A bitch …” she said

and Gretchen were brought as trophies. Gretchen was Jake’s younger sister. She was stunning and a looker. Your father eagerly drafted her 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

that my mother’s

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 in this room,” she

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

dungeon, and one drunken night, he went

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

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