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

of his girls, and she opted to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence, and I decided to talk to her

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

did not read some of the records

Leah Corrigan was never in

not even

was thrown into service in Grizlo, where

“Maybe she was misinformed.

with all the lunas he

have told Jenny that, so she would not

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

need to confront your mother

better come clean because

ruin the entire Volkov

we will soon welcome children into this

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

I wouldn’t waste

returned to the estate in the morning,

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

joked about the things they read

loved her, and

She was really delusional.

thing that troubled everyone was that other than when

if he had

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

it or tell

was as if the

It was weird.

for the Volkov estate the next

was eager to confirm with my mother

and I went to my

had settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked

hard for my

the door and

smiled and

for me

and

I

are the

with you,” she said, and I smiled

is fine, mother,” I

private discussion with you, and I need you to be

I said, and her

the truth because what I

can ruin

and tell me the truth, so I will know how

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

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

what transpired between you and Jenny Lawrence

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

just came to say hello and reconcile, ” She said, and

tell me the

letter

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

say such a thing

stop spewing that nonsense about

not know how

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

always did that when backed into a

mother,” I said,

sit down,” I told her, letting my command

know he was unfair

I know everything.

about Alissa, and I learned other

I just need to know what to

“She is lying.

can never

my husband.” She said, and I shook

know, but he hurt

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

you,” I said,

my family seat from me?” She asked me with

my head and then looked at

that father

I wanted, so it

I had information, she

please tell me you had no hand

not have father killed.” I said, staring

were a dead

was shaking