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 only my mother knew the Alias my

to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence, and I decided to talk to her about

to a girl

some of

that Leah Corrigan

not even sleep with

thrown into service in Grizlo, where she died.”

“Maybe she was misinformed.

father slept with all the lunas

Jenny that, so she would not

Tamia; you know she is obsessed with him and possessive

confront your mother on

need to ask her; she better come clean because this is

just ruin

we will soon

weighing us down and haunting

I wouldn’t waste

the estate in the morning, I

truth for all our sakes

and everyone joked about the

my father loved her, and my mother was

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her son, she never

as if

entry where she claimed my father took her son

not talk about it or tell us where he was

was as if the baby had stopped

It was weird.

for the Volkov

with my mother

arrived, and I went to my

in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked on my mother’s

for my sake because I was tired

opened the door and was surprised

smiled and

you to come looking for me this morning,

sat and

alright? I hope she is

the

she said, and I smiled and

mother,” I said and

to have a private discussion with

me,” I said, and

to tell me the

ruin our

tell me the truth, so I will

like this, darling? I won’t

it,” She

to know what transpired between you and Jenny

a lot of bad blood between you two, so I do not understand why she would visit you in our house,” I said,

and reconcile, ” She said, and

better tell me the

a letter from

you wrote it and accusing you of

a thing about me? It is

her to stop

do not know how that bitch

obsessed with your father..” She said, and I cut her sentence to stop her from

did that when

mother,” I said, and she shook

sit down,” I told her, letting my command through, and she reluctantly

was

I know everything.

me about Alissa, and I learned other

am not trying to judge you; I just need to know what to do,” I

“She is lying.

never hurt

my husband.” She said, and I

but

murdered most of your family members, and tried to give your family

hurtful things to you,” I said, and she

my family seat from me?” She asked

head and then looked

father wanted to give your family seat to his son, David,” I said, and she

I wanted, so

that she knew I had information, she would not

please tell me you had no hand

you did not have father

tears were a dead

was shaking and