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.

Jenny had also said only my mother knew the Alias my father

him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence, and I decided to talk to her

might have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in

of the records in the

Leah Corrigan was never

not even sleep with

service in Grizlo,

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all

told Jenny that, so she would not

know she is obsessed with him and possessive

confront your

better come

can just ruin the entire Volkov

a marriage coming, and we will soon welcome children into this

need lies and secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She said, and

decided I wouldn’t

we returned to the estate in the morning, I would

truth for all our

everyone joked about the things

and my mother was blackmailing him to keep

She was really delusional.

was that other than when she mentioned her son, she never

if

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

not talk about it or

the baby had

It was weird.

for the Volkov estate the next

with my mother on

I

settled in, I took the photocopied letter and

hoped she did not make it hard for my sake

and

smiled and let

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

and thanked

she alright? I hope she is eating and

are the early

about with you,” she said, and

is fine, mother,” I

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

I said, and her

the truth because what

can ruin

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

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

know it,” She said,

what transpired between

was a lot of bad blood between you two, so I do not understand why she

and reconcile, ”

tell

have a letter from

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

can you say such a thing about me? It

warned her to stop spewing that nonsense about

know how that

obsessed with your father..” She said, and

when backed into a

truth, mother,” I said, and she shook

my command through, and

know he was unfair to

I know everything.

Alissa, and I

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

“She is lying.

can never hurt

was my husband.” She said,

know, but he hurt you,

for her, murdered most of your family

you,” I said, and she looked at

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

head and then looked at

Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father

wanted, so

she knew I had information,

you had no hand

Jenny is lying and you did not have father killed.”

tears were

was shaking