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 .

something is going to swoop out of

forearm a habit of mine

I forced my hands to

appeared in front

Violet Mannering was a tall , middle aged woman

she was beautiful , her skin was the white of

eyes on the floor as she

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said you have some

gathered around us on all sides ,

was so dark I couldnt even tell which

Violet raised her eyes , and I realized something

can easily pass for humans , except for the graying , death like tones

usually have

were black with red irises that

, that she wasnt standing like a

shadows of the vampires

long , needle

Welcome .

need of your blood

18 There it

heartbeat , said the

the ultrasound

was

me , then

were in Atlanta , at the best OBGYN in the

the office blurred in the background as I stared at

did want children

wanted to be happy about

felt wrong

life had gotten out

shook off the feeling and thanked

put her arm through mine as we walked

and wanted to leave through the front

to take pictures of us as a happy couple

life for now , which was why Id paid the doctor to meet us

suspicions about who sold the story of Aurora being a homewrecker to

importance on public opinion than other

care at all ,

reason the businesses mattered were because they supported the pack