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.

The writer said she was in the harem, but Jenny had also said only my mother knew the Alias my father used to

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

to a girl in the harem?” I

not read some of the

that Leah Corrigan was never in the

did not even sleep

service in Grizlo, where she

“Maybe she was misinformed.

with all the lunas he

that, so she

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

need to confront your mother on

better

just ruin the

marriage coming, and we will soon welcome

and haunting us.” She said, and I could

wouldn’t waste

to the estate in the morning,

for all our sakes so I can figure

about the things they read in Jenny’s

woman believed my father loved her, and my mother

She was really delusional.

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

as if he

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

or tell us where he was

was as if the baby had

It was weird.

for the Volkov estate the next

with my mother on the

and I went to my

settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked

it hard for my sake because I was

and was surprised

and

have done something right for you to come looking for me this morning, ” She said with a smile and

and

alright? I hope

are the

she said, and I smiled and leaned

fine, mother,” I

discussion with you,

me,” I said, and her

the truth because what

ruin

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

like this, darling? I won’t lie

know it,”

I want to know what transpired between you and

not understand why she would visit you in our house,”

say hello and reconcile, ”

better tell me

letter

record claiming you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,” I said, and she stood up

a thing about

stop spewing

do not know how that bitch

She said, and I cut her

always did that when backed into a

I said,

told her, letting my command

know he was unfair

I know everything.

about Alissa, and

just need to know what to do,” I said

“She is lying.

can never

said, and I shook my

know, but he hurt

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

of hurtful things to you,” I said, and

to take my family

bowed my head and then

some research and saw a letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to give your family seat to his son, David,” I

had her where I wanted, so it

knew I had information,

you had

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

were a dead

shaking