The Dark Side Of Fate

~Sylvester~

I was speechless. My mother sat on the couch and was weeping.

I could see she was afraid, and I understood why. She had committed treason.

I sighed and looked at her. I could see she was tired and wondered how much she was hiding.

“Is there anything else, mother, that I need to know?” I asked her, and she looked at me.

It was hard for her, but she knew her game was up.

“I hated her.” She confessed, and I did not need to guess who she was talking about.

“She came to my house uninvited and told me that she was tired of the money she was getting from me and she needed to get justice for Maurice. She was on to something, and I knew she would do it. I do not know if it had anything to do with the bastard that Maurice took from her, but she was broken, and she came to vent her anger on me,” my mother said, and I sighed.

“She said I was an idiot and could not take care of business. She bragged to me that I was a fool. She told me she was the one that helped me get rid of my competition.

I only had one competition when it came to your father, and that was Alissa. She told me how she paid the doctor to inject silver into her system.

Silver doesn’t kill us; it only stops us from healing and makes us weak, which was what it did to Alissa the day she gave birth. The doctor registered her cause of death as an extreme case of preeclampsia. She bragged that I would not be able to prove it because, unlike me, she knew how to tidy up her mess.

The doctor died a month after Alissa passed away. We didn’t see it as anything when it happened, but I figured it out when she told me. I knew Jenny was crazy, but I did not realise how crazy she was until she said what she said.

After she bragged about what she did to Alissa, she said I reaped the benefit of her hard work but not anymore,” my mother said I knew where it was going, but I held my tongue to let her speak.

“I did not know she was screwing your father when I asked her to help secure the Balyaev seat. I found out after he died, and she thought that was why I had him killed. She claimed she loved your father, but it was all a lie. She was a bloody social climber. She dated Gavin Orlov in secret. I knew but kept her secret because her husband was late by then.

I did not know she was also screwing my husband when I learned about her and Gavin. I found out after Devin had killed him, and I was mad. Jenny was a bloody social climber. She married Jerry Babanin because his family was higher than hers. Before Jerry, she tried to get with my brother, but he did not fancy her. After she married Jerry, she chose to aim higher, so she went after the eldest, Orlovs, and one day I found out she went after Maurice Volkov too. She just wanted to be at the top. The bitch.

I could have something on her and get her off my back, but I found out she had a child for my husband,

started sending her threatening messages hoping she would be so scared and maybe run away, but the bitch always kept her shit together, so I stopped.” She said, and I remembered the anonymous blackmail letters Jenny

the council. The letter might

I pretended with

came to my house to gloat. She told me she had me where she wanted and could dispose of me whenever. She only let me keep my miserable life because she enjoyed watching me suffer. She told me of her child with Maurice, and I pretended to be surprised about it. She told me Maurice took her son away from

tell the difference between a legitimate child and a

kappa Melvick were there when she made all those statements; they didn’t believe her, of course, and saw her as a mad woman threatening my life. She also came with

happened so fast. She was leaving and said she would get you off your seat and end the Volkov line with the amount of evidence she had. Knowing she always made good on her threats, I knew I

helped me end her. Of course, my men killed her men, and they got scared because they had killed a high council member, so I told them what they would say before I passed out,” She

Dominic any of this. He would never understand. He loved his father blindly,” she said, pleading with me, and I nodded and hugged

cried in my arms, and I could only imagine

choice but to

woman’s journals. She was sick and rotten

protecting our family from a mad woman,” She pleaded. I

your secret is safe with me,” I said, and she broke the hug and stared into my eyes to be sure I had just

and …” She said with genuine fear in her eyes, and I shook my

was the one that figured it out, mother,” I said, and there was horror in her

in on it. She protected your secret, mother. She knew it would hurt you, our baby and

grateful, Sylvester. Tell her I am

please join me in my mother’s room,” I linked my mate. I needed my mother to believe that Tamia was on her side

my mother, and there was a knock on the

wiped away her tears

looked at me and

knees to plead to my

do not expose me. I am begging you. I had no choice..” she said, and Tamia rushed to her and held her. She knelt and hugged

burn all the evidence and never speak of it again,”

glad Tamia was the one that found the evidence. I did not think Marcel or Theodore would want to hurt my mother,