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.

also said only my mother knew the

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

that my father might have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in the harem?” I asked, and

not read some of

Corrigan was

did not even sleep

into service in Grizlo,

“Maybe she was misinformed.

father slept with all the lunas he

might have told Jenny that, so she would not

you know she is obsessed with him

to confront your

better come clean because

ruin the

have a marriage coming, and we will soon

and haunting us.” She said, and I could understand her

I wouldn’t waste any

we returned to the estate in

for all our sakes so I can figure out what

about

her, and my

She was really delusional.

troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her

as if he had stopped

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

talk about it or tell us where

if the baby had stopped

It was weird.

for the Volkov

with

arrived, and I went to

took the

hoped she did not make it hard for my sake because I

the door and was surprised to see

smiled and let me

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

and thanked

she alright? I

the

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

mother,” I said and

am here to have a private discussion with you, and

I said,

tell me the truth because

can ruin

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

darling?

know it,” She

know what transpired between you and

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

to say hello and reconcile, ” She

better tell me the

have a letter from

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

can you say such a thing about me? It

her to stop

not know how that

She said, and I

always did that when backed into

truth, mother,” I

her, letting my command through,

know he was unfair to

I know everything.

Alissa, and I learned other

you; I just need to

“She is lying.

never hurt

husband.” She said, and I

know, but he hurt you,

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

a lot of hurtful things to you,” I

tried to take my family seat from me?” She asked me

and then

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

where I wanted, so it was time to

information, she would

tell me you had no

you did not have father

tears were a dead

was shaking and