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 said,

bowed

the

It was just that treason

and I knew

kill Dominic. Tamia

with Dominic if

You are a fool

I don’t hate her. I

home to

through.” She said,

honest, but Tamia

anymore, and that was a relationship she would have to

alone. 1

and actions

I could see it. You called her a whore, among other things; words like that don’t get forgotten,” I said, and she

was the 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 made me question the

made

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

that, Sylvester. I gave birth

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;

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

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

of you. It was a brave thing to do on her part, and I commend her, but

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

she wanted

supposed to hear, so I opened

her in.

keep it down, and

is pale,” She said

she will be fine,” I said, and

you mind if I examine

know how Tamia would feel about it, but since

wouldn’t be

checked her nails; Tamia stirred

a blood sample?”

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

fighting whatever was introduced into it, “She said and

and she gasped. A wide grin spread across

face.

and looked

she will give

I

again, but I kept it

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

Brighton. A bitch…” she said

thought she was being nice when she pleaded with Maurice to send her sister In-law

liked her too, and Gretchen was only trying to get

pleaded

in his service

said and wiped away

mother’s selective memory

say he had to sleep with those women

she was admitting that his method was

silver blade through her heart in this

come to plead with Maurice to let her say,

found Gretchen

fucked, and she snapped. You see, Maurice

and it bothered

and bowed

locked

night, he went to her cell

and I was stunned.

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

He thinks his mother was brought here as a slave and killed unjustly. I doubt Jake knows the

Volkov bloodline are quiet and not bearing our

ingest enough,” she said, and

Tamia’s blood or

Brighton.

there a record of this?”

and she nodded.

kept

and I nodded, hoping