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

forearm a habit of mine when

hands to my sides

appeared in front

a tall , middle aged woman with

beautiful , her skin was the white of new paper

floor as she bowed her head

?

said you have some information

on all sides

it was so dark I couldnt even tell which

I realized something was very ,

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

dont usually have strange eyes

the whites of Violets eyes were black with red irises that glowed

realized , also , that she wasnt standing like a

of the vampires around us hung like puppets

long ,

Welcome .

have great need of your blood

There it is

heartbeat , said the doctor

the

really was

at me , then at the doctor

in Atlanta , at the best OBGYN in the city

blurred in the background as I stared at

want

to be happy about

felt

life had gotten out of joint somehow

shook off the feeling

arm through mine as

wanted to leave through

pictures of us as a

had enough paparazzi in my life for now , which was why

suspicions about who sold the story of Aurora

put more importance on public opinion than other

, if scandal didnt

mattered were because