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

rubbed the raised scar on my forearm a habit of mine when I was

I forced my hands to

appeared in front of

was a tall , middle aged woman with perfect curls in

, her skin was the white of new paper

on the floor as she bowed

Mannering ? I

said you have some information for us

us on all sides , surrounding

I couldnt even

, and I realized something was very , very

easily pass for humans , except for the graying ,

usually have

eyes were black with red irises that glowed like burning

, that she wasnt standing

shadows of the vampires around us hung like puppets

smiled , showing long ,

Welcome .

need of your blood

18 There

heartbeat , said the doctor

stared at the ultrasound screen

was

smiled hugely at me , then at

the best

the office blurred in the background as I stared at that

want

to be happy

felt wrong

my life had gotten out

feeling and

her arm through mine as

pouted and wanted to leave through the front

chances to take pictures of us as

paparazzi in my life for now , which was why Id paid the doctor

sold the story of Aurora being a homewrecker to the tabloids in

always put more importance on public opinion than other

all , if scandal didnt affect business

only reason the businesses mattered were