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.

had also

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

divulged his travelling plans to a

not read some of the records in

Leah Corrigan was never

not even

in Grizlo, where she

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all the

have told Jenny that, so she would not

have read her journals, Tamia; you know she is obsessed with him and

need to confront your

ask her; she better come clean

just ruin the

we will soon welcome children

haunting us.” She said,

I wouldn’t waste

to the estate in the morning, I

tells the truth for all our sakes so

joked about the things they read in Jenny’s

believed my father loved her, and my mother was blackmailing him to

She was really delusional.

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

if he had stopped

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

about it or tell

the baby had

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate the next

confirm with my mother on

I went to my

I had settled in, I took the photocopied letter

did not make it hard for

and

and let me

me

sat and

I hope she

the

about with you,” she said,

is fine, mother,”

discussion with you, and I need you

I said, and her

you to tell me the truth because what I

can ruin our

need you to come clean and tell me the truth, so I will know how to

you speaking like this, darling? I won’t lie

it,” She

to know what transpired

bad blood between you two, so I do not understand why she would

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

tell

letter

it and accusing you of killing father,” I said, and she stood

you say such a thing about

warned her to stop spewing that nonsense

not know how

and I

did that when backed into a

I said, and

letting my command through, and she reluctantly did

was unfair to

I know everything.

told me about Alissa, and I learned other

you; I just need to know what to do,”

“She is lying.

never

husband.” She said, and I

know, but he hurt you,

fated, made you care for her, murdered most of your family members, and tried

of hurtful things to you,” I said, and she looked

he tried to take my family seat from me?”

bowed my head and then looked

you that father wanted to give your family

where I wanted, so

had information,

tell me you had no hand in

and you did not have father

were

shaking