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?”

bowed her

the last time, and

just

crime, and I knew they

to kill Dominic.

Dominic if he

a fool

but I don’t hate her. I just

family home to

through.” She said, and

being honest, but Tamia

that was a

alone. 1

and actions

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

only 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 was Tamia that

one that made

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. You always side with

say that, Sylvester. I gave birth

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

I gave birth to both of

am really concerned for her.

a brave thing to do on her part, and I

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

realised she wanted to

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

her in.

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

is pale,” She said with

she will be fine,” I said, and

you mind if I examine her?”

I did not know how Tamia would feel about it, but since I

wouldn’t be

nails; Tamia stirred in her

a blood sample?” She

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

alarm; her system is fighting whatever was

is pregnant,” I confirmed, and she

face.

she said softly and looked

hope she will give

and I

nice again, but I kept it

said, and she nodded. We

Brighton. A bitch…”

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

bitch thought Maurice liked her too, and Gretchen was

So she pleaded

his service

She said and wiped away

mother’s selective memory was her

say he had to sleep with those women

but here she was admitting that his method was fucked up,

silver blade through her

plead with Maurice to let

she found Gretchen in

she snapped.

and it bothered her,”

and bowed

locked up

one drunken night, he went to her cell and took her life,”

and I was stunned.

stand trial for her crime, slave or not. But he acted on impulse, and we swept it under the

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

rest of the Volkov bloodline are quiet and not bearing

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

Tamia’s blood or I

Brighton.

there a record of this?” I

and she nodded.

recordkeeper kept

nodded, hoping to