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.

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 sleep it off, but there is no cause for alarm here. She will be alright when she wakes up; she just

watched Tamia’s eyes close gradually

Avery excused themselves,

was a 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 knew it was my mother. She was the only one that

she frowned at me. Not wanting her in

She asked, and I knew she

said, and she sighed and bowed

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

words and actions hurt her, mother. Even though she didn’t say it, I could see it. You called

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

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

her part, and I commend her, but I am concerned. Jake isn’t vindictive,

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

down, and

pale,” She said with concern,

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

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

forehead and palm and checked her nails;

a blood

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

is fighting whatever was introduced

gasped. A wide grin spread across

said softly and

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

about Donald Brighton, mother,” I said, and she nodded. We moved

Brighton. A bitch …”

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 it as an act of kindness on her part. She saw it as a way of reducing her competition. The bitch thought Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was

was clear that my mother’s selective

husband’s secrets and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his method

a silver blade through her heart

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

drunken night, he went to her cell and took her life,”

this, but Donald hates the Volkovs because of it. He thinks his mother was brought here as a slave and killed

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