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.

was in the harem, but Jenny had also said only my

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

his travelling plans to a girl

read some of the records in the

said that Leah Corrigan was

even sleep

into service in Grizlo, where she died.”

“Maybe she was misinformed.

all the

told Jenny that, so she

is obsessed with him and possessive of him, too,”

you need to confront your

her; she better come clean because

ruin

have a marriage coming, and we will soon welcome children

down and haunting us.”

wouldn’t waste

in the morning, I

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

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

believed my father loved her, and

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her son, she never talked

was as if he had stopped

there was an entry where she claimed my father took her son from her, but that

talk about it or tell us where

if the baby had stopped

It was weird.

Volkov estate the

with

and I went to

took the photocopied letter and

hoped she did not make it hard for my sake

mother opened the door and was surprised

and let me

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

and

she alright? I hope she

are the early

going about with you,” she

is fine, mother,”

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

me,” I said, and her

me the truth because what I discovered is

can ruin our

truth, so I will know how to handle the situation,” I said, and she

darling? I won’t lie

your know it,”

to know what transpired between you and

I do not understand why she would

say hello and reconcile, ” She said, and I

better tell

a letter from

you of killing

say such a thing about me?

stop spewing that

not know how

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

when backed into

me the truth, mother,” I said, and she shook her

told her, letting my command through, and she

know he was unfair to

I know everything.

told me about Alissa, and I learned

I just need to know what to

“She is lying.

can never hurt

said, and I shook

but he

of his fated, made you care for her, murdered most

lot of hurtful things to you,” I said,

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

my head and then looked at

alert you that father wanted

where I wanted, so it was time

information, she would not

tell me you had no hand in

not have father

were

was shaking