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 only my

to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence,

to a girl in the harem?”

not read some of

Corrigan was

did not even sleep with

thrown into service in Grizlo,

“Maybe she was misinformed.

all the lunas

have told Jenny that, so she would not

is obsessed with him and possessive of him,

you need to confront your mother on

to ask her; she better come clean

just ruin the

have a marriage coming, and we will soon

weighing us down and haunting us.” She said,

decided I wouldn’t

returned to the estate in

for all our sakes so I can figure out what

dinner, and everyone joked about

her, and my mother was blackmailing him to

She was really delusional.

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

as if he had stopped

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

about it or tell us where he

the

It was weird.

the Volkov estate the

with my

I

took the photocopied letter and knocked on my

make it hard for my

the door and was surprised to see

smiled and let

done something right for you to come looking for me this morning, ” She

and

she alright? I hope she

are the

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

is fine, mother,” I said

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

said, and

you to tell me the

can ruin

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

darling?

know it,” She said, sounding a bit hurt,

know what transpired between you and Jenny

not understand

say hello and reconcile, ” She said,

you better tell

letter from

you of killing father,” I

say such a thing about me? It

warned her to stop spewing that nonsense

not know

with your father..” She said, and I cut her

did that when backed into

truth, mother,” I said,

told her, letting my command through, and

was

I know everything.

Alissa, and I learned other

judge you; I just need to know what

“She is lying.

never

She said, and

but

care for her, murdered most of your family

you,” I

take my

bowed my head and then

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

her where I wanted, so

information, she would not

you had no

me that Jenny is lying and you did not have father killed.”

were

was shaking