Shadows of Destiny

A Confession Of Rage ~Sylvester~ I took the journal from Tamia and read the page she was on.

I could not believe what I had just seen.

“What if this woman was trying to frame my mother? The letter was anonymous.

What if that was what she was trying to do? Jenny was on the council, and my mother wasn’t.

My father had left the Balyaev seat vacant, making the Lawrences the most powerful family on the council.

What if the council teamed up and decided to persecute my mother? There is always evidence to convict a person, whether guilty or innocent.

What if that was Jenny’s plan?” I said, still finding it hard to believe what Tamia had said.

She stood up and touched my hand.

“I do not know what to believe.

But we must review the files and hide the correspondence about your father’s murder.

Marcel and Theodore are loyal to you, but their fathers were also killed.

They might not find it funny and demand retribution,” she said to me, and I knew she was right.

So I left her in the room and rushed down, stared at where the documents were and started searching the files for anything that had to do with the correspondence between Jenny and my mother.

“Sylvester, is everything alright?” Marcel asked me holding Jenny’s journal in his hand.

It was clear they found what she had written amusing.

I smiled at him and nodded.

“Yes.

I just need to see the correspondence between her and my mother,” I said.

He nodded and continued to read the journal in his hand.

I thought of the many things that could happen if the information Tamia just found out got into the wrong hands.

The thought motivated me to search.

Tamia joined me downstairs and helped me search the files.

We were at it for hours.

We had lunch and talked about the content of the journal.

We joked about what Jenny wrote.

Tamia and I pretended to find it amusing because we did not want to alarm the others.

By evening we had gone through all the documents we had brought, and only four files consisted of her correspondence with my mother and father.

I found a copy of the letter sent to her by her southern informant in those files.

It was authentic, but I could not tell if it was my mother’s handwriting or not.

“Alpha Corrigan, I write you in good conscience.

I do not believe in injustice, and I believe the wolf lord lost his mind because of his greed.

Knowing how greatly your family suffered at his hands, I am moved to do this.

Although I want to remain anonymous, I have discovered that the lord is out to conquer the south.

He travels in disguise with his beta and gamma under the Alias John Michan.

He plans to scout your territory as a tourist to develop his attack plan.

I am writing you this letter so you can prepare yourself for what is to come.

Your parents’ sacrifice should not be in vain.

Leah Corrigan and I became friends in the harem.

Where I found favour with the wolf lord, she didn’t.

I am writing you this letter to help keep her son alive.

Please, the wolf lord with be in the south on Monday at noon.

He will be staying at the Danes Inn in Pridewood Pack land Under his Alias.

Be warned that there will be warriors around.

You must intercept him in the inn.

I hope for the sake of the south you succeed.” It read, and I wondered how Jenny would think my mother would write the letter.

but Jenny had also said only my

that he discussed his trip with one of his girls, and she opted to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence, and I decided to talk to her about

my father might have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in the harem?” I asked, and Tamia

read some of the records

Leah Corrigan was never in the

did not even sleep with

was thrown into service in Grizlo, where

“Maybe she was misinformed.

father slept with all the lunas

might have told Jenny that,

with him and possessive of him, too,” I said, and

to confront your

she better come clean because this is

can just ruin the entire

we

haunting us.” She said,

wouldn’t waste

to the estate in the morning, I

tells the truth for all our

joked about

loved her, and my mother was

She was really delusional.

thing that troubled everyone was that other than when she

was as if he had

she claimed my father took her son

or tell us where he

as if the baby had

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate the next

with my

and I

had settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked

hoped she did not make it hard for my sake because I was tired of

mother opened the door and was

smiled and let

come looking for me this morning, ” She said with

and thanked

is Tamia? Is she alright? I hope she is

are the early

you,” she

fine, mother,” I said and

to have a private discussion with you,

I said, and her smile

to tell me the truth

ruin

you to come clean and tell me the truth, so I will know how to

you speaking like this, darling? I

and your know it,” She said, sounding

transpired between you and Jenny Lawrence

was a lot of bad blood between you two, so I do not understand

just came to say hello and reconcile, ” She

you better tell

a letter from

it and accusing you of

a thing about me? It

to stop spewing that nonsense about

not know how

said, and

always did that when backed

the truth, mother,” I said, and she shook her

command through,

know he was unfair

I know everything.

Alissa, and I learned other

just need to know what to

“She is lying.

never hurt

She said,

but he hurt you,

care for her, murdered most of your family members, and tried to give your family seat

lot of hurtful things to you,” I said, and she looked at me,

my family seat

head and then looked at

you to alert you that father wanted

I wanted, so it was

that she knew I had information, she would not

tell me you

Jenny is lying and you did not have

were a

shaking and