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?”

and bowed

I misbehaved the last time, and

sorry. It was just that treason is

and I knew they

to kill Dominic. Tamia threatened

with Dominic if he caused

a fool for her. I

don’t hate

home to calm

through.” She said, and I

honest, but

was a relationship she would have

alone. 1

and actions

it, I could see it. You called her a whore, among other things; words like that don’t

didn’t do it? She was the one that urged me to dig instead of passing judgment. Dominic has been a problem for me,

one that made

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 gave

I threatened to disown him 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. 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 he is always eager to prove

you locked the douchebag up. I gave birth to both of you. Do not ever

am really concerned for her. I

a brave thing to do on her part, and I commend

next alpha, and he has a grudge against this family. Just like Devin, his mother was

realised she wanted

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

her in.

down, and she looked

is pale,” She said with concern,

she will be fine,” I said, and she

if I

did not know how Tamia would feel about

decided it wouldn’t be

checked her nails; Tamia stirred

take a blood sample?” She

amount of poison, and I also think she is pregnant,” she said,

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

I confirmed, and she gasped. A wide grin

face.

softly and looked at Tamia lovingly.

will give

said, and I doubted

but I

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

Ava Brighton. A bitch…”

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 hated that bitch because she almost took my husband from me. Ava did not see it as an act of kindness on her part. She saw it as a way of

and Gretchen was only trying to get

So she pleaded with

his service and

said and

was clear that my mother’s selective memory

he had to sleep with those women

them, but here she was admitting that his method

silver blade through

with Maurice to let her

she found Gretchen in

looking freshly fucked, and she snapped. You see, Maurice

it

and bowed her

locked up in

one drunken night, he went to

and I was stunned.

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

his mother was brought here as a slave and killed unjustly. I

hence why the rest of the Volkov bloodline are quiet and not bearing our last name. It was wrong to send

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

Tamia’s blood or I would

Brighton.

there a record of

and she nodded.

kept

I nodded, hoping