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

one of his girls, and she opted to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to

plans to a girl in the harem?”

some of the records

Corrigan was

not even sleep with

in Grizlo,

“Maybe she was misinformed.

all

might have told Jenny that, so she would not

you know she is obsessed with him and possessive of him, too,”

need to confront your mother

she better

can just ruin the

and we will soon welcome children into

secrets weighing us down and haunting us.”

I wouldn’t waste

the estate in the morning, I would

she tells the truth for all our sakes so I

had dinner, and everyone joked about the things

loved her, and my mother

She was really delusional.

was that other than when she mentioned her son, she

if he

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

about it or tell

as if the baby

It was weird.

the Volkov estate the

with

arrived, and I went to

and I had settled in, I took the photocopied letter

did not make it hard for my sake because I was tired of

and

smiled and let

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

sat and thanked

I hope she is

are the

be going about with you,” she said, and I smiled

fine, mother,”

here to have a private discussion with

said, and

need you to tell me the

ruin our

the truth, so I will know how to handle the

like this, darling? I won’t lie to

love you and your brother, and your know it,” She said, sounding

what transpired between

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

hello and reconcile, ” She said, and I got

you better tell

a letter

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

such a thing about me? It

her to stop spewing

not know how

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

when backed into a

mother,” I said, and she shook

command through, and she

know he was

I know everything.

me about Alissa, and

I just need to know what

“She is lying.

never hurt

was my husband.” She said, and I shook

know, but he

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

things to you,”

to take my

bowed my head and then looked at

Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to give your family seat to his

wanted, so it was

that she knew I had information, she

me you had

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

tears were a

was shaking