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.

Jenny had also said

discussed his trip with one of his girls, and she opted to betray him? Tamia and I

divulged his travelling plans to a

did not read some of

that Leah Corrigan

even sleep

was thrown into service in Grizlo, where she died.” Tamia

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all the lunas he

that,

Tamia; you know she is obsessed with

confront your mother

she better

just ruin the

have a marriage coming, and we will soon welcome children into this

down and haunting us.” She said, and I

I wouldn’t waste any

in

the truth for all our sakes so I can figure

and everyone joked about the things

my father loved her, and my mother was

She was really delusional.

everyone was that other than when she

if

entry where she claimed my father took her son from her, but

or

as if the baby

It was weird.

Volkov estate

with my mother on the

and I

Tamia and I had settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked on my

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

and was

and let

come looking for me this morning, ”

and

Is she alright? I

are the

you,” she said, and I smiled

is fine, mother,” I said

have a private discussion with

said,

tell me the truth because what I discovered

ruin our

I will

you speaking like this, darling? I won’t lie to

love you and your brother, and your know it,”

I want to know what transpired

blood between you two, so I do not understand why she would visit you in our house,” I said, and

say hello and reconcile,

tell me the

have a letter

and accusing you of killing father,” I said, and she stood

a thing about me? It is all

to stop spewing that nonsense

know

father..” She said, and I cut her sentence to

when backed into

truth, mother,” I said, and she

I told her, letting my command through, and she reluctantly did as

know he was unfair to

I know everything.

told me about Alissa, and I learned other

you; I just need to

“She is lying.

can never hurt

was my husband.” She said, and I shook my

I know, but he hurt

murdered most of your

did a lot of hurtful things to you,” I said, and she looked

my family seat from me?” She asked

and then

that father

where I wanted, so it was time to

that she knew I had information, she would not resolve to

me you had no hand in

did not have

tears were a dead

shaking