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.

harem, but Jenny had also said only my mother knew the Alias my father

to betray him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the

travelling plans to a girl in the harem?” I asked,

did not read some of

Leah Corrigan was never in

not even sleep with

in

“Maybe she was misinformed.

father slept with all the lunas he

might have told Jenny that, so she

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

you need to confront your

ask her; she better come

can just ruin the entire

marriage coming, and we will soon welcome children into

haunting us.” She said, and I could understand her fear

wouldn’t waste

in the morning,

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

everyone joked about the things they read in Jenny’s

believed my father loved her, and my

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her

if he had

an entry where she claimed my father took

not talk about it or tell us

the baby had stopped

It was weird.

the Volkov estate the

eager to confirm with my mother on

arrived, and I went

took the photocopied letter and knocked

hoped she did not make it hard for my sake because

the door and was surprised to

smiled and let me

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

and thanked

alright? I hope she

the

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

mother,” I said and

a private discussion with you, and I need you

said, and her smile

the truth because what

can ruin our

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

darling? I won’t

you and your brother, and your know it,”

want to know what transpired between

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

and reconcile, ” She

better tell me the

a letter from Jenny’s

a record claiming you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,” I said, and she stood up and

a thing about

warned her to stop spewing

not know how

She said, and I cut her sentence to

that when

me the truth, mother,” I said, and

my command through, and she reluctantly

know he was unfair to

I know everything.

about Alissa, and I learned other

to judge you; I just need to know what to

“She is lying.

can never

said, and I shook my

I know, but he hurt you,

made you care for her, murdered

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

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

my head and then

research and saw a letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to give your family seat to his son,

wanted, so it

I had information, she would not resolve to

me you had no hand in

and you did not have father killed.”

tears were a dead

shaking and