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.

said she was in the harem, but Jenny had also said

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

travelling plans to a girl in the

not read some of the

Corrigan was never in

even sleep

into service in Grizlo,

“Maybe she was misinformed.

all

that, so she would

journals, Tamia; you know she is obsessed with him and possessive

confront your

better come clean because this is

ruin

marriage coming, and we will soon welcome children into this

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

wouldn’t

estate in the morning, I would ask my

she tells the truth for all our sakes

and everyone joked about

her, and my mother was blackmailing him

She was really delusional.

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

as if he

there was an entry where she claimed my father took her son from her, but that

or tell us where

as if the baby

It was weird.

the Volkov estate the

to confirm with my

and I went to my

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

not make it hard for my sake because I was tired

and

and let

to come looking for me this

sat and thanked

Tamia? Is she alright? I hope

are the early

with you,” she said,

fine, mother,” I

a private discussion with you, and I need you to

me,” I said,

tell me the truth because

ruin our

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

darling? I won’t lie to you

your brother, and your know it,”

know what transpired between you and

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

to say hello and reconcile, ” She said,

you better tell me

letter from

it and accusing you of

thing about me? It is all

stop spewing

do not know

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

that when backed into a

the truth, mother,” I said,

command through, and she

know he was unfair

I know everything.

told me about Alissa, and I learned

to judge you; I just need to

“She is lying.

can never

was my husband.” She said,

I know, but

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

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

take my family seat from me?” She

head and then

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

so it was time to ask

that she knew I had information, she

me you had

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

were a

was shaking and