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 .

that something is going to swoop out of the shadows and kill you

a habit of mine when I was anxious

I forced my hands to my

appeared in front

Mannering was a tall , middle aged woman with

skin was the white of

had her eyes on the floor as she bowed her head to us

Mannering ? I asked

said you have some information for

all sides

I couldnt even tell

and I

humans , except for the graying , death like tones of

have

whites of Violets eyes were black with red irises that glowed like burning coals

also , that she wasnt

and the shadows of the vampires around us hung like puppets on

showing long , needle like

Welcome .

need

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heartbeat , said

at the

really was pregnant

me

were in Atlanta , at the best OBGYN in the city

the office blurred in the

did want children

be

felt

life had gotten out of joint somehow

feeling and thanked

her arm through mine as we walked

wanted to leave through

to take pictures of us as a happy couple

, which was why Id paid the doctor

eagerness only deepened my suspicions about who sold the story of Aurora being a homewrecker to the tabloids in the first

had always put more importance on public opinion than other wolves

at all , if scandal

the businesses mattered were