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.

already recovering from it. I will give her a mild sedative to help her relax and sleep it off, but there is no cause for alarm here. She will be alright when she wakes up; she just needs to rest,” he said, administered the sedative, and

watched Tamia’s eyes close

themselves, and

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 knew it was

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

asked, and I

care?” I said, and she sighed

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 was being honest, but

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

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

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 he can feel better. Larry has worked on his insecurities and used them. I was happy you locked the douchebag up. I gave birth to both of you. Do not ever think otherwise,” She said

concerned for her. I knew 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

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

to keep it down, and she looked at

pale,” She said with

fine,” I said, and she looked

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

palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did not wake

doctor take a blood sample?” She asked, and

think she is pregnant,” she said, and I was panicked because she could be

her system is fighting whatever was introduced into

confirmed, and she gasped. A

softly and looked at Tamia

give me another chance.” She said, and I doubted Tamia would be that nice again, but I kept

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

Ava Brighton. A bitch …”

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 an act of

my mother’s selective memory

those women to learn their husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but here

driving a silver blade through her heart

Gretchen in his bed naked, looking freshly fucked, and she snapped. You see, Maurice had

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

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.

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