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.

writer said she was in the harem, but Jenny had also said only my mother knew the

to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to

to a girl in the harem?” I asked,

not read some of the

said that Leah Corrigan was never

did not even sleep

was thrown into service in Grizlo, where she died.”

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all the

might have told Jenny that, so

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

you need to confront

to ask her; she better come clean because

ruin the entire Volkov

and we will soon welcome children into

need lies and secrets weighing us down and haunting us.”

I wouldn’t waste

in the

hope she tells the truth for all our sakes so I

joked about the things they read in

my father loved her, and

She was really delusional.

than when she mentioned her son, she never talked

as if he had

my father took her son from her, but

about it or tell us where

if the baby

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate the

eager to confirm with my mother on the

arrived, and I went

had settled in, I took the photocopied

did not make it hard for my sake because I was tired

opened the door and was surprised to see

and

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

sat and thanked

I hope she

are the

you,” she said, and I

fine, mother,” I

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

said, and her

the truth because what

can ruin our

I will know how to handle the situation,” I said, and she

darling?

love you and your brother, and your know it,” She said, sounding a bit hurt, and I

know what transpired between

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

and reconcile, ” She

you better tell

letter from

you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,”

say such a thing about me?

warned her to stop spewing that

do not know

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

that when backed into

I said, and she shook her

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

was unfair to

I know everything.

about Alissa,

judge you; I just need to know

“She is lying.

never hurt

She said, and I

I know, but he hurt

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

of hurtful things to you,” I said,

know he tried to take my family

bowed my head and then looked

letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father

I wanted, so it was

she knew I had information, she would not

you had no hand in

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

tears were a

was shaking