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.

had also said only my mother knew the Alias my father

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 decided to talk to her about my

have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in the

some of

Leah Corrigan was never in

not even

in

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all the lunas

have told Jenny that,

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

you need to confront your

ask her; she better come

just ruin the entire

we will soon welcome children

haunting us.” She said, and I

wouldn’t waste

estate in the morning, I would

tells the truth for all our sakes so I

joked about the things they read in Jenny’s

my father loved her, and my mother was blackmailing him to

She was really delusional.

when she mentioned her son, she never talked about him

as if

where she claimed my father took her son from

talk about it or tell us

was as if the baby

It was weird.

the Volkov estate

eager to confirm with my mother

arrived, and I

settled in, I took the photocopied

make it hard for my sake because I was

the door and was surprised to

smiled and let me

to come looking for me this

and

I hope she is

the early

with you,” she

is fine, mother,”

with you, and I need you to

I said,

need you to tell me the truth

can ruin

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

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

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

transpired between you and Jenny Lawrence

you two, so I do not understand why she would visit you

to say hello and reconcile, ” She said,

better tell

a letter from

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

say such a thing about

her to stop spewing that nonsense

not know how

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

always did that when

mother,” I said, and she

my command through,

he was unfair

I know everything.

Alissa, and

am not trying to judge you; I just need

“She is lying.

never hurt

said,

I know, but

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

of hurtful things to you,” I

my family seat from me?” She asked me

head and

to alert you that father

so

I had information,

you had no hand in

did not have father

were a

was shaking