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.

the harem, but Jenny had also said only

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

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

not read some of the records in the

Leah Corrigan was never in

did not even sleep

thrown into service in Grizlo, where she died.” Tamia

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all the

told Jenny that,

obsessed with him and possessive of

you need to confront your

better come

just ruin

and we

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

wouldn’t waste

to the estate in the morning, I would ask my

the truth for all our sakes so I can figure out what

about the things they read in

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

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her

as if he had

entry where she claimed my father took her son from

or tell

the

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate the

was eager to confirm with

I went

had settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked on

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

opened the door and was surprised to

and let

have done something right for you to come looking for me

and

alright? I

are the

shouldn’t be going about with you,” she said,

mother,” I said and

am here to have a private discussion with you, and I need you to

me,” I said,

to tell me the truth

ruin our

will know how to handle the situation,” I

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

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

to know what transpired

I do not understand why she would visit you in our house,” I

and reconcile, ” She said,

you better tell

have a letter from Jenny’s

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

a thing about me? It is

to stop spewing

not know how that

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

when backed

the truth, mother,” I said, and she

I told her, letting my command through, and she

know he was

I know everything.

about Alissa, and I learned other

am not trying to judge you; I just need to know what to do,”

“She is lying.

can never

was my husband.” She said, and I shook my

know, but he

care for her, murdered most of your family members, and

a lot of hurtful things to you,” I said, and she looked

he tried to take my family seat from

head and

saw a letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to give your

her where I wanted, so it was time to ask

I had information, she would

you had

Jenny is lying and you did not

tears were a

was shaking