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.

you care?”

bowed

know I misbehaved the

sorry. It was just that treason

I knew they

Dominic.

if he

are a fool for

I don’t hate her. I

family home to calm down and

through.” She said, and I knew

honest,

her anymore, and that was a relationship she would

alone. 1

and actions hurt

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

She was the one that urged me to dig instead of passing judgment. Dominic has been a

one that made me look

the outside would say you didn’t birth me with how you acted. You always side with

not say that, Sylvester. I

if he went for the hearing. That was why he stayed. I also 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.

douchebag up. I gave birth to

really concerned for her. I knew

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

this family. Just like Devin, his mother

realised she wanted

I opened the door

her in.

and she looked at Tamia,

pale,” She said

will be fine,” I said, and she looked

if I examine

know how Tamia would feel about it, but since

wouldn’t be any

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

a blood sample?” She

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

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

confirmed, and she

face.

and

will give me another

said, and I doubted Tamia would

but I kept it to

me something about Donald Brighton, mother,” I said, and she nodded. We moved to the couch area,

Brighton. A

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

her too, and Gretchen was only trying to get rid

she pleaded with Maurice

in his service and

said and

that my mother’s selective

would say he had to sleep with those

and be ahead of them, but here she was admitting that his

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

to plead with Maurice to let her

she found Gretchen

she snapped. You see, Maurice

Ava, and it bothered

and bowed her

had her locked

he went to her

and I was stunned.

against the law. Ava was supposed to stand trial for her crime, slave or not. But he acted

thinks his mother was brought here as a slave and killed unjustly. I doubt Jake knows the truth,”

the Volkov bloodline are quiet and not bearing our last name. It was wrong

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

blood or

Brighton.

record of

and she nodded.

recordkeeper kept

nodded, hoping to