The Dark Side Of Fate By Karima Sa’ad Usman Chapter 66

66 The Journal of Worms

~Tamia~

I woke in the morning with a bit of morning sickness. So I rushed to the bathroom and threw up what was left of my dinner from last night. Sylvester joined me in the bathroom and rubbed my back gently.

Knowing why I was throwing up, neither of us was bothered.

He kissed the top of my head, and I wiped my lips gently and smiled at him.

“Good morning,” he said to me, gently patting my hair. I smiled in response. We sat down on the bathroom floor.

Sylvester placed his hand on my stomach and rubbed gently.

“I can’t wait to meet our baby, Tamia,’

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He said, and I gently touched his hand on my tummy.

“We still have a long way to go; it’s flat,”

I pointed out, and we laughed.

We got ready for the day and headed downstairs. I could not wait to go through the journals.

As much as I wanted to get to the bottom of things, I was curious about Jenny’s life because the woman had a lot of skeletons in her closet and seemed a bit eccentric.

“Good morning,” Linda said, smiling at me, and her smile was extra, which made me know Theodore had done a lot of work.

“Good morning,” I greeted her and

Theodore, and he smiled at me while rubbing her back.

Avery and Marcel were yet to join us.

Sylvester pulled out a seat for me to sit

down. I sat and looked at Linda. She was glowing. She looked nothing like the

Linda that I used to know. It was amazing what true love could do to someone. We were lucky.

We came to the north as war prisoners and found love in the process. Like in the east when our husbands were friends, likewise in the north. It was amazing to see how intertwined our destinies were. It was still in the very same order. 1

Marcel?” Sylvester asked

he

hope,” Theodore answered, and Sylvester laughed. I knew there was a subtle exchange between the men, which

what our team would wear during the polo?”

and he shook

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women would decide that,’ Sylvester said, lifted my hand

me on during our games,” he said, and

trousers. Black and white everything,” I

my Lady,” he

before the sports games begin. I learned everyone would be there,” Linda said, and I wondered why she would be excited. Then it hit me that our exes might

will get to rub it in his face one day, Linda but not at the games. They never invite the east,” I linked her, and her smile dropped. She really wanted to laugh at Kyle. I could

nice if she and Avery got the chance to rub the joy on their faces. Call it petty, but there was a true satisfaction that would come with their pain and disbelief. I knew one day it would happen, and

how they looked, I knew what they

packed her hair before tumbling in the sheets. She

Sylvester said, and

appetite was over the roof, and Sylvester kept adding things to

was the first to leave the table to head

and somehow it wasn’t a daily record of her life; browsing through the page, I realised she

all eager for answers, so we sat in the living room, and I picked the oldest journal, judging by the dates, to read.

worst day of my life. I told Maurice I would like to have a baby with him, and he shut it down. He said he already has one bastard; he can’t have another. It really hurt because I love him so much,

informative, but we now knew how Maurice felt about having a baby with her; maybe

looking for something significant.

a lot, and I wasn’t surprised. She was alone most of her life, so she was bound to rave in her journals. Everyone needed an outlet, and this

him for it. Asking his friends to share me with him was the most humiliating thing ever. He wanted me to know how he saw me,

that Maurice is lying to me. I know he loves Stephanie; I can see it in his eyes now he has banned me from speaking her name. I hate that

read the later ones,” Sylvester said, disgusted by the content

more pages, and we will move

we all believed she got treated the way she should.

put her in her place. How dare she take him from me. I have to find a way to get to her. I do not know how, but I will

makes it easy. I will try and be her friend and pretend to support her against Stephanie. The woman is a thief and a menace, and she needs to be sent back

journal and went for the second to the last one. The

these ones?” Linda

how she feels about all the women the wolf lord was

know you can read them at your leisure. I plan to do so,” I

up the book and

the pages and found a

I was wronged

as if he does not exist.

of the council is just

am sure she would be mad, and she might fight him. Who

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