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.

harem, but Jenny had also said only my

be possible that he discussed his trip with one of his girls, and she opted to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence, and I

divulged his travelling plans to a girl in

did not read some of the records

Corrigan was never in the

not even sleep

was thrown into service in Grizlo,

“Maybe she was misinformed.

with all

have told Jenny that,

is obsessed with

you need to confront your mother on

she better come clean because this

ruin the entire

coming, and we will soon welcome children into this

secrets weighing us down and haunting us.”

wouldn’t waste

to the estate in

tells the truth for all our

about

father loved her, and my mother was blackmailing him

She was really delusional.

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

was as if he had stopped

claimed my father took her son from

about it or

the baby had

It was weird.

for the Volkov estate

confirm with

arrived, and I

and I had settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked on my

hard for my sake because I was tired

the door and was

smiled and

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

sat and

I

are the

going about with you,” she

mother,” I said

here to have a private discussion with you, and I

me,” I said, and her

me the truth because what

can ruin

so I will know how to handle the situation,”

you speaking like this, darling? I won’t

know it,” She said, sounding a

what transpired between

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

just came to say hello and reconcile, ” She

tell me the

have a letter from Jenny’s

a record claiming you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,” I

thing about me? It is

her to stop spewing that

do not know

was obsessed with your father..” She said, and I

did that when backed into a

truth, mother,” I said, and she

command through, and she reluctantly did

know he was unfair to

I know everything.

me about Alissa,

just need to know what to do,”

“She is lying.

never

husband.” She said,

but he

for her, murdered most

you,” I said, and she looked at

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

and then looked at

did some research and saw a letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to give your family seat

had her where I wanted, so it was time to ask

knew I had information,

me you had

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

were

shaking