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.

in the harem, but Jenny had also said

his girls, and she opted to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs

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

of the records

that Leah Corrigan was never

even sleep

in Grizlo,

“Maybe she was misinformed.

with all the lunas

told Jenny that, so

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

confront your mother

to ask her; she better

ruin the entire Volkov

marriage coming, and we

not need lies and secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She said,

I wouldn’t waste

we returned to the estate in the morning, I would ask my

truth for all our sakes so

and everyone joked about the things

her, and my

She was really delusional.

that other than when she mentioned her son, she

if he had stopped

entry where she claimed my father took her son from her, but

talk about it or tell

the baby had stopped

It was weird.

left for the Volkov estate the

was eager to confirm with my mother on

arrived, and I went

Tamia and 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 of

mother opened the door and

smiled and

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

and thanked

Tamia? Is she alright? I

the

shouldn’t be going about with you,” she said, and I

fine, mother,” I said and

discussion with you, and I need you

I said,

the truth because what I discovered

can ruin

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

darling? I won’t

love you and your brother, and your know it,” She said,

know what transpired between you and Jenny

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

say hello and reconcile, ” She said, and I

you better tell me

have a letter

you of killing father,” I said,

can you say such a thing

warned her to stop

not know how that bitch

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

always did that when

I said, and she

down,” I told her, letting my command through, and she reluctantly did as

was unfair to

I know everything.

about Alissa, and I learned

you; I just need to know what to do,”

“She is lying.

can never hurt

my husband.” She said, and I shook

know, but

care for her, murdered most of your family members, and tried to give your family seat to his

did a lot of hurtful things to you,”

to take my family seat

head and then looked

wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to give your family seat to his son, David,” I said, and she was

so it

had information,

me you had no

me that Jenny is lying and you did not have

tears were a dead

shaking and