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 mother knew

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

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

did not read some of the records in the

that Leah Corrigan was never in the

did not even

thrown into service in Grizlo, where she died.”

“Maybe she was misinformed.

with all the lunas

told Jenny that, so she would not be

know she is obsessed with him and possessive of him, too,” I said,

to confront your mother on

to ask her; she better come clean because

ruin the entire Volkov

we will soon

lies and secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She said, and I could understand her fear and

decided I wouldn’t

in the morning, I would

our sakes so I can figure out

about the

and my mother was

She was really delusional.

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

as if he had stopped

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

talk about it or tell us

was as if the

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate the

confirm with

arrived, and I went

Tamia and I had settled in, I took the

not make it hard for my

door and was surprised

smiled and

for you to come looking for me this morning, ” She said with a smile and offered me a

and thanked

I hope she is eating

are the early

be going about with you,” she said, and I smiled and

fine, mother,” I said

a private discussion with you, and I need

me,” I said, and

tell me the truth because

ruin our

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

speaking like this, darling?

and your know it,” She

want to know what transpired between you and Jenny Lawrence

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

reconcile, ” She said, and I got

better tell me

a letter from

has a record claiming you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,” I said, and she

thing about me?

stop

know

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

always did that when backed into a

truth, mother,” I said, and

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

know he was

I know everything.

told me about Alissa, and I learned

to judge you; I just need to know what to do,”

“She is lying.

never

husband.” She said, and I shook

I know, but he hurt you,

her, murdered most of your family members, and tried

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

take my family seat from me?” She

and then looked

father wanted to give your family seat to his

wanted, so

I had information, she would

me you had no hand

you did not have father killed.” I

tears were

shaking