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.

but Jenny had also said only my mother knew the Alias my

betray him? Tamia

to a girl in the harem?” I

not read some of the

said that Leah Corrigan was

even sleep

was thrown into service in

“Maybe she was misinformed.

with all the lunas he

told Jenny that, so she

know she is obsessed with him and possessive of him,

confront your

need to ask her; she better come clean

just ruin the entire Volkov

have a marriage coming, and we will soon welcome

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

I wouldn’t waste any

estate in the

tells the truth for all our sakes so I can figure

had dinner, and everyone joked about the things they read in

and my mother was blackmailing him to

She was really delusional.

than when she

if he had stopped

was an entry where she claimed my father took her son

talk about it or tell us

was as if the baby

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate the next

with my mother

I went to

Tamia and I had settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked on my mother’s

hard for my sake

mother opened the door and was surprised to

smiled and let me

for me

sat and thanked

alright? I hope she is eating and

the early

be going about with you,” she said, and

mother,” I

a private discussion with you, and

I said,

the truth because what I discovered

can ruin

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

you speaking like this, darling? I

you and your brother, and your know it,” She said, sounding a bit

know what transpired

you two, so I do not understand why she would visit you in our house,” I said, and she

say hello and reconcile, ” She said, and

tell me

a letter

you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,”

you say such a thing about

to stop spewing that nonsense

know

your father..” She said, and I cut

when backed

me the truth, mother,” I said,

I told her, letting my command

was unfair

I know everything.

about Alissa, and I

to judge you; I just need to know what to do,” I

“She is lying.

can never hurt

my husband.” She said, and I shook my

I know, but

of his fated, made you care for her, murdered most of your family members,

a lot of hurtful things to you,” I

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

bowed my head and then looked

and saw a letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to

wanted, so it was time to ask

information, she would not

please tell me you

did not have

tears were a dead

was shaking