The Dark Side of Fate

Chapter 68

The Dark Side Of Fate By Karima Sa’ad Usman Chapter 68

68 The Rest Of It

-Sylvester-

I was speechless. My mother sat on the couch and was weeping.

I could see she was afraid, and I understood why. She had committed treason.

I sighed and looked at her. I could see she was tired and wondered how much she was hiding.

“Is there anything else, mother, that I need to know?” I asked her, and she looked at me.

It was hard for her, but she knew her game was up.

“I hated her.” She confessed, and I did not need to guess who she was talking about.

“She came to my house uninvited and told me that she was tired of the money she was getting from me and she needed to get justice for Maurice. She was on to something, and I knew she would do it. I do not know if it had anything to do with the bastard that Maurice took from her, but she was broken, and she came to vent her anger on me,” my mother said, and I sighed.

“She said I was an idiot and could not take care of business. She bragged to me that I was a fool. She told me she was the one that helped me get rid of my competition. 1

I only had one competition when it came to your father, and that was Alissa. She told me how she paid the doctor to inject silver into her system.

Silver doesn’t kill us; it only stops us from healing and makes us weak, which was what it did to Alissa the day she gave birth. The doctor registered her cause of death as an extreme case of preeclampsia. She bragged that I would not be able to prove it because, unlike me, she knew how to tidy up her mess.

The doctor died a month after Alissa passed

away. We didn’t see it as anything when it happened, but I figured it out when she told

I knew Jenny was crazy, but I did not realise how crazy she was until she said what she said.

After she bragged about what she did to Alissa, she said I reaped the benefit of her hard work but not anymore,” my mother said I knew where it was going, but I held my tongue to let her speak.

the Balyaev seat. I found out after he died, and she thought that was why I had him killed. She claimed she loved your father, but it

was also screwing my husband when I learned about her and Gavin. I found out after Devin had killed him, and I was mad. Jenny

not fancy her. After she married Jerry, she chose to aim higher, so she went after the eldest, Orlovs, and one day I found out

too. She just wanted to be at

on her and get her off my back, but I found

I stopped.” She said, and I remembered the anonymous blackmail letters Jenny was getting. I did not tell my mother I had seen those letters so she would

two hundred thousand Lakhs every three months so she wouldn’t raise the issue at the council. The

I pretended

she came to my house to gloat. She told me she had me where she wanted and could dispose of me whenever. She only let me keep my miserable life because she enjoyed watching me suffer. She told me of her child with Maurice, and I pretended to be surprised about it. She told me Maurice took her son

not tell the difference between a legitimate child and a bastard.

when she made all those statements; they didn’t believe her, of course, and saw her as a mad woman threatening my life. She also came with her guards for

all happened so fast. She was leaving and said she would get you off your seat and end the Volkov line with the amount of evidence she had. Knowing she always made good on her threats, I knew I could not let her

had killed a high council member, so I told them what they would say before I passed

secret, Sylvester; please do not hate me and do not tell Dominic any of this. He would never understand. He loved his father blindly,” she said, pleading with

cried in my arms, and I could only imagine the amount

had no choice but to

not going to back down. I had read the woman’s journals. She

well, do not let them suffer; they believe they were protecting our family from a mad woman,” She pleaded. I told her to

said, and she broke the hug and stared into my eyes

about Tamia? She likes digging and… ” She said with genuine fear in her eyes, and I shook my head and

figured it out, mother,” I said, and there was

everyone and only let me in on it. She protected your secret, mother. She knew it would hurt you, our baby and me, and she kept it,”

Sylvester. Tell her I am

in my mother’s room,” I linked my mate. I needed my mother to believe that Tamia was on her side because I could

was a knock on

away her tears

mother looked at me and then looked

knees to

hands together, she wept

Tamia, do not expose me. I am begging you. I had no choice..” she said, and Tamia rushed to her and held her.

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