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 mother knew the Alias my father used to

with one of his girls, and she opted to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence, and I decided

plans to a girl in the harem?” I asked,

of the records in the

said that Leah Corrigan was never

even sleep with

service in Grizlo, where she

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all

told Jenny that, so she would

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

you need to confront your mother on

to ask her; she better come clean

can just ruin the entire Volkov

marriage coming, and we

haunting

decided I wouldn’t waste any

the estate in

hope she tells the truth for all our

joked about

believed my father loved her, and

She was really delusional.

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

was as if

where she claimed my father took her son

about it or tell us where he

as if the baby had stopped

It was weird.

the Volkov estate the

to confirm with

arrived, and I

in, I took the photocopied letter

for my

opened the door and was

smiled and let

me this morning, ”

and thanked

Tamia? Is she alright? I hope she is eating and

are the early

you,” she

is fine, mother,”

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

said, and

tell me the truth because what

can ruin

truth, so I will know how

darling? I won’t lie to

love you and your brother, and your know it,”

what transpired

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

and reconcile, ” She said, and

better tell me

have a letter

and accusing you of killing father,” I

can you say such a thing about

to stop spewing that

not know how

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

when backed into a

I

told her, letting my command through, and she reluctantly did as I

was

I know everything.

told me about Alissa, and I

judge you; I just need to know what to do,” I

“She is lying.

never hurt

She said,

I know, but he hurt you,

you care for her, murdered most of

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

he tried to take my family seat

head and then looked

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 she was

so it was

knew I had information, she

you had no hand in

not

tears were

shaking and