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.

said she was in the harem, but Jenny had also

opted to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence, and I decided

might have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in the harem?” I asked,

some of

that Leah Corrigan

even

into service in

“Maybe she was misinformed.

all the

have told Jenny that, so

obsessed with him and possessive of him,

you need to confront

her; she better come

ruin

marriage coming, and we will

haunting us.”

wouldn’t

estate in the morning,

for all our

and everyone joked about the

her, and my mother was blackmailing him

She was really delusional.

was that other than when

was as if he

my father took her son from her,

talk about it or tell us where he

if the baby had

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate

with

I went

in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked

hoped she did not make it hard for my sake

door and

and let

something right for you to come looking for me this morning, ” She said with a smile

sat and

Tamia? Is she alright? I hope she is

are the

going about with you,” she

is fine, mother,” I

to have a private discussion with you, and I need

me,” I said, and her

you to tell me the truth because

ruin

so I will know

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

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

know what transpired between you

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

to say hello and reconcile, ” She

tell

have a letter from Jenny’s

you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,” I said, and she stood up and shook her

thing

warned her to stop spewing that

do not know

said, and I cut her sentence to stop her

that when backed into a

truth, mother,” I said,

I told her, letting my command through, and she

he was unfair to

I know everything.

about Alissa,

you; I just need to

“She is lying.

can never

husband.” She said, and

know, but he

her, murdered

you,” I said, and she

tried to take my family seat from me?”

and

Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted

had her where I wanted, so it

knew I had information,

please tell me you had no hand in

did not have father killed.” I said, staring into her

tears were a dead

shaking