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.

do you care?” I said, and

and bowed her

know I misbehaved the

just that

and I knew they

Dominic.

with Dominic if

are a fool for her. I

I don’t hate her. I

to calm

through.” She said, and

being honest,

and that was a relationship she would have to

alone. 1

words and actions

I could see it. You called her a whore, among other things; words

dig instead of passing judgment. Dominic has been a problem for me, so it was easy

one that made me look at

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

that, Sylvester. I

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

was happy you locked the douchebag up. I gave birth to both of you. Do

but I am really concerned for

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

has a grudge against this family. Just like Devin,

she wanted to

so I opened the door

her in.

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

pale,” She said with concern, and

I said, and she looked at

mind if I examine her?”

how Tamia would feel about it, but

decided it wouldn’t

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

the doctor take a blood

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

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

I confirmed, and she gasped.

face.

said softly and looked

will give me another

said, and I doubted

again, but I kept it

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

A bitch…”

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

too, and Gretchen was only trying to

pleaded

his service and

She said and

mother’s selective memory

would say he had to sleep with those women to learn

was admitting that his method

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

with Maurice to

she found Gretchen in

fucked, and she snapped.

Ava, and it

and bowed

had her locked up

he went to

and I was stunned.

crime, slave or not. But he acted on impulse, and we swept it under the carpet. No

Volkovs because of it. He thinks his mother was brought here as a slave and killed unjustly. I doubt Jake knows the truth,” She said, and I looked

are quiet and not bearing our last name. It was wrong to send her

didn’t ingest enough,” she said, and I hoped for Jake’s sake there

or I would

Brighton.

a record of this?”

and she nodded.

recordkeeper kept

I nodded, hoping to use