The Dark Side Of Fate Chapter 184

So I pretended with her.

The day she died, 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 away from her and how she envied me because he let me raise my children.

The woman was that sick. She could not tell the difference between a legitimate child and a bastard.

Jenny said it was time for her to raise the matter in the council. Kapa Blake and kappa Melvick were there 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 reasons best known to her.

"It 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 go. So I attacked; likewise, her men attacked my men, but we had the upper hand.

She stabbed me with the silver switch knife she always had on her, and Kappa Melvick helped me end her. Of course, my men killed her men, and they got scared because they had killed a high council member, so I told them what they would say before I passed out," She said, and I placed my hand on her thigh. She looked at me, and her eyes looked light. It must have been a burden.

"You know my 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 me, and I nodded and hugged her.

She cried in my arms, and I could only imagine the amount of pain she was in.

She had no choice but to strike.

Jenny was not going to back down. I had read the woman's journals. She was sick and rotten to her core. It was good riddance.

"Please, Sylvester, Melvick and his men meant well, do not let them suffer; they believe they were protecting our family from a mad woman," She pleaded. I told her to calm down, patting her back gently.

"It is okay, mother, your secret is safe with me," I said, and she broke the hug and stared into my eyes to be sure I had just said what I said.

"What about Tamia? She likes digging and ..." She said with genuine fear in her eyes, and I shook my head and held her hands that were shaking so she could be calm.

"Tamia was the one that figured it out, mother," I said, and there was horror in her eyes.

"She hid the evidence from 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," I said, and tears fell freely from her eyes.

"I am grateful, Sylvester. Tell her I am grateful.." she said, crying. She was relieved.

"Tamia, please join me in my mother's room," I linked my mate. I needed my mother to believe that Tamia was on her side because I could feel she was conflicted.

I held my mother, and there was a knock on the door.

My mother broke the hug and wiped away her tears while Tamia walked in.

My mother looked at me and then looked at Tamia.

She went on her knees to plead to my mate. Clasping her hands together, she wept and begged.

"Please, Tamia, do not expose me. I am begging you. I had no choice.." she said, and Tamia rushed to her and held her. She knelt and hugged my mother.