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.

her relax and sleep it

watched Tamia’s eyes close gradually

excused themselves, and I stayed with

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

frowned at me. Not wanting her in my

She asked,

I said, and

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

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 that don’t get forgotten,” I said,

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 you acted. You always side with him over me; you never have my back,” I said, tears streaming

the hearing. That was 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 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

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

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

and she looked at Tamia,

pale,” She said with concern, and I

said she will be fine,” I

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

Tamia’s forehead and palm and checked her nails;

a blood sample?” She asked, and

think she is pregnant,” she said,

alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into it,” She

confirmed, and she gasped. A wide grin

she said softly and looked

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

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

Ava Brighton. A bitch …” she

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 it as

my mother’s selective memory was her

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 fucked up, but

driving a silver blade through her heart in this

found Gretchen in his bed naked, looking freshly fucked, and she snapped. You see, Maurice had stopped touching Ava, and it

locked up in the dungeon, and one drunken night, he went to her cell and took her life,”

not. But he acted on impulse, and we swept it under the carpet. No one knew this, but Donald hates the Volkovs because of

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