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.

in the harem, but Jenny had also said only my mother knew the Alias my father used

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

have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in

some of

Corrigan was

did not even

into service in Grizlo, where

“Maybe she was misinformed.

with all the

might have told Jenny that, so

read her journals, Tamia; you know she is obsessed with him and possessive of him, too,” I said, and she

confront your

need to ask her; she better come

ruin

coming, and we

not need lies and secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She said,

wouldn’t waste any

we returned to the estate in the

all our sakes so

had dinner, and everyone joked about the things they read

her, and my mother was blackmailing him

She was really delusional.

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

if he had

an entry where she claimed my father took her son

did not talk about it or tell us where

was as if the baby

It was weird.

Volkov

was eager to confirm with my mother on the

I went to

I had settled in, I took the photocopied letter

it hard for my

door and was surprised to see

and let

must have done something right for you to come looking for me this morning, ” She said with

and

Is she alright? I

the early

about with you,” she

mother,” I said and

have a private discussion with you, and I need you to

me,” I said, and her

the

ruin

clean and tell me the truth, so I will

like this, darling? I

brother, and your know it,” She said, sounding

want to know what transpired between you

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

just came to say hello and reconcile, ” She said, and I got

tell

a letter

accusing you of killing father,” I said,

thing about me? It

warned her to stop spewing

know

and I cut her sentence to stop her

that when backed into

mother,” I said, and she shook

command through, and she

know he was unfair to

I know everything.

told me about Alissa,

just need to know what to do,” I

“She is lying.

can never hurt

said, and I

know, but

made you care for her, murdered

hurtful things to you,”

take my family

and

father wanted to give your family seat to his

so it was time

information, she would not resolve

please tell me you had

and you did not have father killed.” I

tears were a dead

was shaking