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?” I

bowed her

I misbehaved the last

sorry. It was just

I

Dominic.

if

You are a fool for

don’t hate her. I

family home to

She said,

being honest,

was

alone. 1

and

she didn’t say it, I could see it. You called her a whore,

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 was Tamia that made me

the one that made me look

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

not say that, Sylvester. I gave

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

you locked the douchebag up. I gave birth to

Tamia, but I am really concerned for her.

thing to do on her part, and I commend her, but I am concerned.

against this family. Just like Devin, his mother was taken by your

realised she wanted to tell me

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

her in.

to keep it down, and she looked at

said with concern,

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

mind if I examine her?”

would feel about it, but

decided it wouldn’t be any

touched Tamia’s forehead and palm and checked her nails; Tamia

doctor take a blood sample?” She

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

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

she gasped. A wide

face.

said softly and looked

will give me another

and I

but I kept it to

said, and she nodded. We moved

Brighton. 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 with Maurice to send her sister In-law back to her husband, and Maurice considered it. I

Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was

So she pleaded

his service

his bed,” She said and wiped away

mother’s

she would say he had to sleep

was admitting that his method was fucked up, but I

driving a silver blade through her

come to plead with Maurice to let her say, and instead

she found Gretchen

freshly fucked, and she snapped. You see,

it bothered her,”

bowed her

her locked up

he went to her cell

and I was stunned.

slave or not. But he acted on impulse, and we swept it under the

this, but Donald hates the Volkovs because of it. He thinks his mother was brought here as a

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

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

blood or

Brighton.

record of this?”

and she nodded.

recordkeeper kept a record,”

I nodded, hoping