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.

The writer said she was in the harem, but Jenny had also said only my mother knew the

him? Tamia and I returned upstairs to pack the evidence, and I decided

plans to a girl

read some of the records in

said that Leah Corrigan

did not even sleep with

service in Grizlo, where she

“Maybe she was misinformed.

slept with all the lunas he

Jenny that, so she would

is obsessed with him

confront your mother on

ask her; she better

can just ruin the entire Volkov

marriage coming, and we

and haunting us.” She said, and I could

decided I wouldn’t waste any

to the estate in

truth for all our sakes so I can figure out

and everyone joked about the things they read in Jenny’s

loved her, and

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when she mentioned her son, she

as if he had

where she claimed my father took her

or tell us where

the

It was weird.

Volkov estate

confirm with my mother on

arrived, and I went to my

settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked

for my sake because I was tired

door and was

smiled and

for me this morning, ” She said with a smile and offered me

and thanked

she alright? I hope she

are the

about with you,” she said, and I smiled and leaned

fine, mother,” I said

a private discussion with you, and I need you

me,” I said, and

me the truth because what I discovered is

ruin our

need you to come clean and tell me the truth, so I will know

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

and your know it,” She said, sounding a

to know what transpired between you

understand why she would visit you in

reconcile, ” She said, and

better tell me the

letter from Jenny’s

you wrote it and accusing you of killing father,” I said,

you say such a thing about me? It is all

stop spewing that nonsense

do not know how that bitch

She said, and I cut her sentence to stop her

always did that when backed into a

truth, mother,” I said,

I told her, letting my command

know he was unfair

I know everything.

me about Alissa, and I learned

am not trying to judge you; I just need to

“She is lying.

can never hurt

said,

know, but he

her, murdered most of your family members, and

you,”

take my family

bowed my head and then

did some research and saw a letter Jenny wrote to you to alert you that father wanted to

so it was time to

she knew I had information, she would not resolve to

you had

did not have father killed.” I said, staring

were a dead

shaking and