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 my mother knew the

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

father might have divulged his travelling plans to a

of

Leah Corrigan

not even sleep with

service in Grizlo,

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all the lunas

told Jenny that, so

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

to confront your mother

better come clean because this

can just ruin

marriage coming, and we will soon welcome

us down and haunting us.” She said, and I could

I wouldn’t waste any

estate in

all our sakes so I can

dinner, and everyone joked about the things they

loved her, and my mother was blackmailing him

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her

as if he

my father took her son

or tell us

was as if the

It was weird.

left for the Volkov

eager to confirm with my mother on the

arrived, and I went to

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

not make it hard for my sake because I was tired

door and

and

for me this morning, ” She said with a

sat and

alright? I hope she is eating

the early

you,” she said, and

is fine, mother,”

have a private discussion with you, and I need you to be

said, and her smile

you to tell me the truth because what I discovered is

ruin our

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

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

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

know what transpired between

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

and reconcile, ” She said, and I

better tell

letter

you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,”

you say such a thing about

her to stop spewing that nonsense about

not know how that

father..” She said, and I cut her

did that when

mother,” I said, and she

I told her, letting my command through, and she reluctantly

he was unfair

I know everything.

about Alissa, and I learned other

you; I just need to know

“She is lying.

never

was my husband.” She said,

know, but he

of his fated, made you care for her, murdered

you,”

take my family seat from me?” She

and then looked at

did some research and saw a letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to give your family seat to his son, David,” I said, and

her where I wanted, so it was time

had information,

please tell me you had

lying and you did not have father

were a dead

shaking