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.

was in the harem, but Jenny had also said only my

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

father might have divulged his travelling plans to a girl

not read some of

Leah Corrigan

did not even sleep

was thrown into service in Grizlo, where

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all the lunas

told Jenny that, so she would not be

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

you need to confront your

she better come clean because

ruin the entire Volkov

and we will soon welcome children into

secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She said, and

I wouldn’t waste any

returned to the estate in the morning, I

our sakes so I can figure out what to

dinner, and everyone joked about the

woman believed my father loved her, and my mother was

She was really delusional.

thing that troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her

was as if he

Theodore, there was an entry where she claimed my

not talk about it or tell us

the

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate

confirm with my mother on the

arrived, and I went to my

settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked

make it hard for my sake because I

mother opened the door and

and let me

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

sat and thanked

she alright? I hope she is eating and

are the early

shouldn’t be going about with you,” she said, and I smiled

mother,” I

am here to have a private discussion with you, and I need you to be

said, and her smile

to tell me the truth because what I discovered is

ruin our

truth, so I will know how to handle the situation,” I said,

speaking like this, darling? I

and your know it,” She said, sounding a

I want to know what transpired between

understand why she would

hello and reconcile, ” She

better tell me

a letter

you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,” I said, and she stood up and shook

say such a thing about me? It is

to stop spewing that nonsense about

know

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

always did that when backed into a

I said, and she shook

I told her, letting my command through,

was

I know everything.

me about Alissa,

need

“She is lying.

can never hurt

said, and I

I know, but he hurt you,

because of his fated, made you care for her, murdered

to you,” I said, and she looked

you know he tried to take my

head and then looked at

and saw a letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to give your family seat to his son, David,” I said, and

where I wanted, so it was time

I had information,

me you had

you did not have father killed.” I said, staring

tears were

shaking