The Dark Side of Fate

53 In The Mix Of Things

~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. 1

“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.

“People experience pregnancy

differently, but I will still take her blood sample 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 needs to rest, ” he said, administered the sedative, and packed his things to leave. 1

I watched Tamia’s eyes close gradually until she fell asleep.

Linda and Avery excused themselves, and I stayed with her.

There 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 dared to do that.

I opened the door, and she frowned at me.

Not wanting her in my room, I stepped

outside.

“What is wrong with her?” She asked,

and I knew she must have heard.

care?” I said, and

bowed her

misbehaved the last

It was just

crime, and I knew

Dominic.

if he

fool for her.

don’t hate her. I just went

family home to calm

She said, and

being honest, but Tamia

with her anymore, and that was

alone. 1

words and actions

could see it. You called her a whore,

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

the one that made me look at

Anyone looking from the outside would say you didn’t birth me with how you acted. You always side with him over me; you

Sylvester. I

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

used them. I was happy you locked the douchebag up. I gave birth to both

sorry about Tamia, but I am really concerned for her. I knew she went

of you. It was a brave thing to do on her part, and I commend her, but I am

Donald Brighton. He is the next alpha, and he has a grudge against this family. Just like Devin, his mother

she wanted to tell me

hear, so I opened the

her in.

keep it down, and she looked at Tamia, where she was

pale,” She said with concern, and

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

if I examine

Tamia would feel about it,

decided it wouldn’t be

Tamia’s forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did not

a blood sample?” She asked,

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

fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said

confirmed, and she gasped. A wide grin spread across

face.

she said softly and looked at Tamia lovingly.

she will give me

and I doubted Tamia

but I kept it to

Brighton, mother,” I said, and she nodded. We moved to the couch

Brighton. A bitch…” she

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

thought Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying to get rid

pleaded with

in his service and

his bed,” She said and wiped away

was clear that my mother’s

had to sleep with those women to learn

of them, but here she was admitting that his method was fucked up, but I

blood, driving a silver blade through her heart in this room,” she said, looking

come to plead with Maurice to let her say, and

she found Gretchen in his

looking freshly fucked, and she snapped. You

Ava, and it bothered

and bowed her

her locked up

night, he went to

and I was stunned.

crime, slave or not. But he acted on impulse, and we swept

brought here as a slave and killed unjustly. I doubt Jake knows the truth,” She

hence why the rest of the Volkov bloodline are quiet and not

kill her. She just didn’t ingest enough,” she said, and I hoped for Jake’s sake there was

or

Brighton.

there a record of

and she nodded.

recordkeeper kept a record,”

me, and I nodded, hoping to