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

his girls, and she opted to betray him? Tamia and I

have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in the harem?” I asked, and Tamia looked at

did not read some of

said that Leah Corrigan

not even sleep with

into service in

“Maybe she was misinformed.

with all the lunas he

have told Jenny that, so she would

know she is obsessed with him and possessive of

confront your mother on

ask her; she better come clean because this is

ruin the

a marriage coming, and we will soon welcome

not need lies and secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She

wouldn’t waste

returned to the estate in the morning, I

for all our sakes so I

dinner, and everyone joked about the things

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

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when she

if

she claimed my

did not talk about it or tell us where he

as if the baby had stopped

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate the

confirm with my mother on the

arrived, and I

Tamia and I had settled in, I took the

it hard for my sake because I was tired of the

and

and let

for me this morning, ” She said with a smile and offered

sat and thanked

alright? I hope

the

shouldn’t be going about with you,” she

mother,” I said

have a private discussion with

I said, and her smile

the truth because what

can ruin our

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

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

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

I want to know what transpired between you

lot of bad blood between you two, so I do not understand why she would visit

just came to say hello and reconcile, ” She said, and

you better tell

letter

of killing

say such a thing about me? It is all

stop spewing that

not know how

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

when backed into

truth, mother,” I said, and she

down,” I told her, letting my command through, and she

know he was

I know everything.

Alissa, and I

I just need to know what to do,” I said and

“She is lying.

never hurt

my husband.” She said,

know, but

made you care for her, murdered most of your family

hurtful things to you,” I

my family seat from me?” She asked me

and

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

so it was

she knew I had information, she would

me you had

not have father killed.” I said, staring into

tears were

was shaking and