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 harem, but Jenny had also said only my

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

that my father might have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in

read some of the records in

that Leah Corrigan was never in

did not even sleep with

service in Grizlo, where she

“Maybe she was misinformed.

all the lunas he

that, so she

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

to confront your

need to ask her; she better

just ruin

and we will soon welcome children into

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

decided I wouldn’t

returned to the estate in

tells the truth for all our sakes so I can figure

dinner, and everyone joked about

and my mother was blackmailing him

She was really delusional.

other than when she mentioned her son, she never talked about

if he

she claimed my father took her son from

not talk about it or tell us where he

if the baby

It was weird.

Volkov estate the

with my

arrived, and I

in, I took

for

mother opened the door and was

smiled and let

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

sat and

alright? I hope she is eating

are the early

she said, and I smiled and leaned

fine, mother,” I said

a private discussion with you, and

said, and her

tell me the truth because what I

can ruin our

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

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

and your know it,”

transpired between you and Jenny Lawrence

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

hello and reconcile, ” She said,

tell

letter from

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

can you say such a thing about me? It is all

to stop

not know

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

did that when backed into a

the truth, mother,” I said,

letting my command through,

he was unfair to

I know everything.

Alissa, and

you; I just need

“She is lying.

never

was my husband.” She said, and I

know, but he hurt

to divorce you because of his fated, made you care for her, murdered most of

to you,” I

take my family

and then

father wanted to give your family seat to

so it was

I had information, she

please tell me you had

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

were a dead

was shaking