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 my mother knew the Alias my father

betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the

my father might have divulged his travelling plans to a girl in the

read some of the records in the

said that Leah Corrigan was never in the

even

thrown into service in Grizlo, where

“Maybe she was misinformed.

father slept with all the

told Jenny that, so she would

is obsessed with him and possessive of him,

you need to confront your mother

need to ask her; she better come clean

just ruin the entire

coming, and we will soon

secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She said, and I

wouldn’t waste any

to the estate in the morning,

all our sakes so I can

about the things they read

loved her, and my

She was really delusional.

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

was as if he had

she claimed my father took her son from her, but that was

did not talk about it or tell

if the

It was weird.

Volkov

eager to confirm with my mother on the

and I went to

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

not make it hard for my sake because I

door and

smiled and let

done something right for you to come looking for me this morning, ”

and

she alright? I

are the early

be going about with you,” she said, and I smiled and

mother,” I

a private discussion with you,

said,

the truth

can ruin our

and tell me the truth, so I will know how to handle the situation,” I

darling? I won’t lie to you about

it,”

to know what transpired between

do not understand why she would visit you in

say hello and reconcile, ”

you better tell me

have a letter from

of killing

thing about me? It is all

stop spewing that nonsense

do not know how that

with your father..” She said, and I cut

did that when backed into

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

down,” I told her, letting my command through,

was unfair

I know everything.

Alissa,

I just need to know what

“She is lying.

never

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

know, but he hurt

you care for her, murdered most of your family

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

take my family seat from

head and

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

wanted, so it was

had information,

me you had no hand

that Jenny is lying and you did not have father killed.” I said,

tears were a dead

was shaking