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.

had also said only

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

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

some of the

Corrigan was never

not even sleep

thrown into service in Grizlo, where she died.”

“Maybe she was misinformed.

father slept with all the lunas he

that, so she would not be

Tamia; you know she is obsessed with him and possessive of him,

to confront your mother

she better come

ruin the entire Volkov

and we

need lies and secrets weighing us down and haunting us.” She

I wouldn’t waste

estate in the morning,

the truth for all our sakes so I can figure

and everyone joked about the things they read

and my mother was blackmailing him to

She was really delusional.

that troubled everyone was that other than when

was as if

there was an entry where she claimed my father took her son from

did not talk about it or tell us where

if the

It was weird.

Volkov estate

confirm with my mother

I went

and I had settled in, I took the photocopied letter and knocked on my mother’s

not make it hard for my

mother opened the door and was surprised

and let me

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

and thanked

she alright? I hope she is eating and

the

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

mother,” I said and

am here to have a private discussion with you,

said, and

tell me the truth because

can ruin our

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

you speaking like this, darling? I

brother, and your know it,” She said, sounding a bit hurt, and

transpired between you and

between you two, so I do not understand why she would

came to say hello and reconcile, ” She said, and I got

better tell me the

a letter from

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

say such a thing

warned her to stop

know how that bitch

with your father..” She said, and

did that when backed into a

me the truth, mother,” I said,

letting my command through,

know he was

I know everything.

Alissa, and I learned

I just need

“She is lying.

never

my husband.” She said,

but he hurt you,

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

to you,” I said, and she looked at me,

he tried to take my family seat from

and then looked

to you to alert you that father wanted to give your family seat to his

had her where I wanted, so it was time to ask

she knew I had information, she would not resolve to

you had no hand

that Jenny is lying and you did not have father

tears were a dead

shaking and