Blood And Silver:Rise of the Alpha’s Rejected Mate

Chapter 18 AURORA Two days later days during which I did everything I could to keep the twins out of the way of the wolves from the Blue Ridge Pack Trajan and I were on our way to dinner with vampires .

Since Dane was my partner , I hesitantly agreed to contact him about it the morning of the dinner .

His Bela , Archer Fox , informed me that Dane was out of town .

The Mannerings were an old vampire family who had lived on the edge of Atlanta for years in an old , crumbling mansion that dated back to the Civil War .

Trajan and I pulled up the long drive just after sunset .

The vampire home wasnt as isolated as the pack houses wolves preferred , but it was still on its own deep in the woods .

We went to the door .

Before we could knock , it opened .

A voice drifted out it was breathy and old , and I couldnt tell if it belonged to a man or a woman .

Please , come in … I moved to step inside , but Trajan put a hand on my arm and met my eyes .

Let me go first .

I nodded , suddenly tense as he went in .

Chapter 18 2/6 Id had a few dealings with vampires before .

They werent nearly as common as wolves , and they didnt care as much for the modern world .

But what they did have was ancient knowledge .

If you ever needed information about a treasure , a curse , or anything like that , vampires would know .

If you dared enter their lairs and risk being killed , you could learn many things .

That was why I was here because my grandmother had gotten word from some of her own vampire contacts that this family might know more about the power we were after .

All we knew was that it was ancient and buried beneath the Appalachian Mountains .

That it was supposed to bring magic back to the world which would make already magical creatures even more powerful .

Trajan glanced back and nodded to me , and I slowly followed him in .

Theres a certain feel to vampire homes .

Opulent wealth thats decayed .

Ancient knowledge .

out of the shadows and kill

the raised scar on my forearm a habit of

I forced my hands to my

host appeared in front of us

a tall , middle aged woman with perfect curls in her

skin was the white of new

her eyes on the floor as she bowed

? I asked

grandmother said you have

on all sides

couldnt even tell which direction the door

eyes , and I realized

, except for the graying ,

have

eyes were black with red irises that glowed like

, that she wasnt standing

and the shadows of the vampires

, showing long , needle like fangs

Welcome .

great need of

18 There it

, said

the ultrasound screen

was

She smiled hugely at me

in Atlanta , at the best

clean white lines of the office blurred in

want

to be happy about this

felt wrong

gotten out of joint somehow

feeling

as we walked

to leave through the

to take pictures of us as

for now , which was why Id paid

my suspicions about who sold the story of

more importance on public opinion than other wolves

at all ,

mattered were because