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Alissa is a bitch, and I will put her in her place. How dare she take him from me. I have to find a way to get to her. I do not know how, but I will start somewhere. Friendship always makes it easy. I will try and be her friend and pretend to support her against Nellie. The woman is a thief and a menace, and she needs to be sent back to where she belongs,” It read, and I could only imagine her state of mind when she wrote it.
I dropped the journal and went for the second to the last one. The one she started the year Collier would go on Pilgrimage.
“You will skip all these ones?” Eloise asked, and I nodded.
“The woman is mad and obsessed with her lover. Unless we want a whole day of how she feels about all the women the wolf lord was screwing, we need to move on from them,” I said, and Eloise was silent.
“You know you can read them at your leisure. I plan to do so,” I told her, and she smiled at me.
I picked up the book and opened it.
I flipped through the pages and found a relevant entry.
“Today, I was wronged to my soul. Collier has never spoken of my son. He behaves as if he does not exist. He even favours his bastard over my son. Planning to make David head of the council is just wicked. I have to alert Nellie. I am sure she would be mad, and she might fight him. Who knows, Collier may snap and dump her arse. If he does, he will definitely come to me, and I can find a way to get my son back,” It read; now we understand why she bothered to alert Nellie about Collier’s decision.
We also knew she had a son who was not with her. Clearly, she wasn’t in her son’s life and might not know where he was. It sounded like Collier took her son from her, but I could not draw conclusions yet.
The other pages showed how she and Nellie would ensure that Abelardo got the Balyaev seat. She indeed planned on double–crossing Nellie in that regard, the woman was vile.
I picked up the last journal and read most of its content until I could not read it aloud anymore.
Jenny had made several entries that could get Nellie in trouble. It was part of her final records.
“What is it?” Kara asked me, and I tried to play it off.
“Nothing interesting; we should go through the files,” I said, and they agreed.
Eloise picked up the first journal while I held onto the last one.
“Are you alright, green–eyes?” Darius linked me, and I looked at him.
“We need to talk in private,” I linked him back.
“Is it about something that is in that book?” he asked me through the mind link, and I nodded.
“Go upstairs; I will join you,” He said, and I pretended to have a stomach upset and would read the journal while in the toilet. So I headed up to the room. I entered, sat on the bed and read the pages.
“I have always known that Nellie was behind Collier and his officers‘ death. She had denied it, but now I have proof. Today I received a letter from my spy in the south. An anonymous person sent the letter to Hardy, claiming that the wolf lord was planning to attack and take over the south. The content of the letter was wicked. The writer had described the route
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the wolf lord would take, his alias and the company he was travelling with, where he would stay, and the time he should attack. The sender also lied that the wolf lord was travelling with a secret army. The writer gave Hardy the details he needed to strike and succeed. Only one person would have this much information on Collier: Nellie.
I have scanned the letter and emailed it to her. I have also threatened to expose her so she would bear the full wrath of her punishment. Once she is put on trial, we can easily say that she connived with her sons to have their father killed so they can take over the lordship and head the council. It will automatically disqualify them, and Darius and Abelardo will not ascend. I will have the last laugh.” It read, and my hands began to shake.
I read the rest of the contents; Jenny had Sagemailed Nellie with the letter for five years.
According to the entries, Nellie denied writing it. She even told Jenny not to hurt her son’s reputation with the lies. Jenny found her pleas amusing and wrote about how she enjoyed tormenting Nellie with the letter.
We needed to confront Nellie, and she needed to come clean so Darius would know how to deal with the matter.
Just then, Darius walked in, and I looked at him with fear in my eyes.
“Jenny was a very disturbed woman,” I said, and he frowned and came to sit with me on the bed.
“You have to confront your mother, Darius, and she better come clean,” I said, and he asked me why.
“Because Jenny claims she was the one that got your father and his friends killed. Jenny got a letter someone sent Hardy and mailed your mother a copy. She has been Sagemailing your mother for five years now,” I said, and he was in shock.
I could only imagine what was going on in his mind.
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Even if Nellie did not do it, the wolf lord’s death was a serious matter. Now I understood why Nellie was hell–bent on Darius taking revenge. If someone had already been punished for the crime, she can’t be tried for the same offence; no one would dig since the culprit has been dealt with.
As much as I knew Collier deserved it, Hardy wasn’t lying when he said the Wolf Lord trespassed. He was made to believe the wolf lord had trespassed by whoever sent the letter.
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