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

and bowed

the

It was just that

and I

kill Dominic.

Dominic if he caused

fool for

but I don’t hate her. I just went

to calm down and

said, and I knew

being honest,

her anymore, and that was a

alone. 1

words and actions hurt

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

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

made me look at

her feel inadequate. I am disappointed in you, mother. Anyone looking from the outside would say you didn’t birth me with how you acted.

that, Sylvester. I gave birth

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. 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

the douchebag up. I gave birth to both of you. Do not ever think otherwise,” She said and bowed her

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

her part, and I commend her, but I am concerned.

the next alpha, and he has a grudge against this family. Just like Devin, his mother was taken by your father,” she said and looked around

wanted

weren’t supposed to hear, so I opened the door to my room

her in.

to keep it down, and she looked at Tamia,

pale,” She said with concern, and I

said she will be fine,” I said, and

you mind if I examine her?”

know how Tamia would feel about it, but since

wouldn’t be any

checked her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but

a blood sample?” She

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

system is fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said and patted

pregnant,” I confirmed, and she gasped.

face.

softly and looked at Tamia lovingly.

will

I doubted

I

said, and she nodded. We moved to

Ava Brighton. A bitch…” she

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

liked her too, and Gretchen was only

she pleaded

his service and

bed,” She said and

that my mother’s selective memory was her coping

she would say he had to sleep with those

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

Gretchen in cold blood, driving a silver blade through her

plead with Maurice to

found Gretchen

freshly fucked, and she snapped. You

Ava, and it

and bowed her

her locked

and one drunken night, he went to

and I was stunned.

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

but Donald hates the Volkovs because of it. He thinks his mother was brought here as a slave and killed unjustly. I doubt Jake knows the

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

to kill her. She just didn’t ingest enough,” she said, and I

Tamia’s blood or I

Brighton.

a record of this?” I

and she nodded.

kept a record,”

and I nodded, hoping to