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?” I said,

and bowed her

I misbehaved the

It was just that

and I knew

to kill Dominic. Tamia threatened

Dominic if

fool

hate her. I

to calm down

through.” She said, and

honest, but Tamia

with her anymore, and that was a relationship she

alone. 1

words and actions hurt

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

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 question

made me

you, mother. Anyone looking from the outside would say you didn’t birth

that, Sylvester. I gave

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

birth to both of you.

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

do on her part,

he has a grudge against this family. Just like Devin, his mother was taken

wanted to tell

so I opened the door to my

her in.

and she

said

she will be fine,” I said, and

if I

know how Tamia would feel about it, but since

decided it wouldn’t

her nails; Tamia stirred in her sleep but did not wake

doctor take a blood sample?” She asked, and I

poison, and I also think she is pregnant,” she said, and I was

need for alarm; her system is fighting whatever was introduced into it,

is pregnant,” I confirmed, and she gasped. A wide grin spread across

face.

said softly and looked at Tamia lovingly.

will

said, and I doubted Tamia

nice again, but I kept it

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

Brighton. A bitch…”

stunning and a looker. Your father 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 hated that bitch because she almost

liked her too, and Gretchen

she pleaded with Maurice

his service

bed,” She said

that my mother’s selective memory was

he had to sleep

she was admitting that his method was fucked up, but

a silver blade through her heart in this

had come to plead with Maurice to

she found Gretchen in

freshly fucked, and she snapped. You

Ava, and it

and bowed

locked up in

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

and I was stunned.

supposed to stand trial for her crime, slave or not. But he acted on impulse, and we

of it. He thinks his mother was brought here as a

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

didn’t ingest enough,”

or I would

Brighton.

of this?” I

and she nodded.

kept

me, and I nodded, hoping to