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 Alias my father

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

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

of

said that Leah Corrigan was

did not even sleep with

thrown into service in Grizlo, where she died.”

“Maybe she was misinformed.

all

that,

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

confront your

to ask her; she better come clean because

ruin

we will soon

lies and secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She said, and I could understand her fear and

wouldn’t waste

to the estate in the

truth for all our sakes so I

everyone joked about the things

my father loved her, and my mother

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her son, she never talked

as if he had

where she claimed my father took her son from her, but

or tell us where he

as if the baby had

It was weird.

Volkov

eager to confirm with my

and I went to

in, I took the photocopied

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

mother opened the door and

smiled and let

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

and thanked

is Tamia? Is she alright? I hope she is

the

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

mother,” I said and

discussion with you, and

I said, and her smile

to tell me the truth because what I discovered

can ruin

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

darling? I won’t lie to you

know it,” She said, sounding a bit hurt, and I

what transpired between you

two, so I do not understand why she

and reconcile, ”

better tell me the

a letter from Jenny’s

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

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

to stop spewing that nonsense about

not know how that

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

did that when backed

mother,” I said,

letting my command through, and she reluctantly

he was unfair to

I know everything.

about Alissa, and I learned other

not trying to judge you; I just need to know

“She is lying.

can never

was my husband.” She said, and

I know, but he

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

did a lot of hurtful things to you,” I said,

you know he tried to take my family

my head and then looked

that father wanted to give your family seat

where I wanted, so it

I had information, she

me you had no

lying and you did not have father

were

shaking and