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 only my mother

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

that my father might have divulged his travelling plans to

read some of the records

that Leah Corrigan was never in

not even

service in Grizlo, where she died.” Tamia

“Maybe she was misinformed.

father slept with all

that, so she would not

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

to confront your mother on

her; she better come clean because this is

can just ruin the entire

have a marriage coming, and we

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

wouldn’t waste any

in the

our sakes so

joked about the things they

her, and my mother was

She was really delusional.

was that other than when she

was as if he

claimed my father took her son from her,

or tell us where he was

if the baby had stopped

It was weird.

for the Volkov estate the next

to confirm with

I went

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

it hard for my

door and was surprised

smiled and

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

and

alright? I hope

are the early

with you,” she

mother,” I

have a private discussion with you, and

I said, and her

the truth because what

can ruin

I will know how

darling? I won’t lie to you

know it,”

I want to know what transpired between you and Jenny Lawrence

two, so I do not understand why she would

reconcile, ” She said, and

tell me the

letter from

of killing father,” I said, and she stood up and shook her

say such a thing about me? It

to stop spewing that nonsense about

not know how

your father..” She said, and I cut

when backed into

mother,” I said,

letting my command through, and she reluctantly did as I

know he was unfair

I know everything.

told me about Alissa, and

judge you; I just need to

“She is lying.

never

husband.” She said,

but he hurt

you because of his fated, made you care for her, murdered most of your family members, and tried to give your

you,” I said,

know he tried to take my

bowed my head and then

to you to alert you that father wanted to

her where I wanted, so it was time to

had information,

me you

Jenny is lying and you did not have father killed.”

were a dead

was shaking and