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

Chapter 21 1/6 AURORA Dane lifted a hand and carefully traced the place three pages had been torn from the book .

The surrounding pages were splotched with an old , rust colored liquid .

Blood .

I had flipped through this book hundreds of times , trying to figure that out myself .

But I thought I knew .

The Reeds gave me this book because they said it was full of old scribbles .

They didnt think it was important .

I dont remember much about when they gave it to me because I was young .

That was only part of the reason .

So much of my life before marrying Dane was lost to me .

But I think I remember Esther Reed saying she tore them out .

Now I touched the torn places .

The book had been written hundreds of years ago .

Someone might have been able to translate it , if it was written in a language .

Instead , it was written in a code made of strange symbols .

As I got older , I discovered the symbols were revealing themselves to me .

Its an old gift that runs in our pack , my grandmother says a gift of magical interpretation .

From what Ive been able to read , the pages beforehand describe the setup for a ceremony .

The pages are the ceremony , itself .

Chapter 21 A ceremony ? Dane asked .

I nodded .

The ceremony is to reveal the moon goddesss chosen .

2/6 Why would Esther Reed take these pages if she couldnt read the book and didnt know how important they are ? Dane asked .

I dont know .

I spent almost twenty two years thinking I was their biological daughter .

Everything they ever told me was a lie .

Except that I couldnt trust the Montagues .

I did remember them saying that .

Over and over again .

Then they made me Danes wife and tried to control him through me .

But hed won , in the end .

into the shadows in the

freed him from me

think she kept them ?

leaned close , looking

my head

hated that part of me still wanted so badly to do that

without

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

always been a

his

a familiar gesture one he made when he was deep in thought

Reed pack house

I remembered .

year after our

that turned the tide of the pack war against the Reeds

went to the Council asking to end our marriage

? I asked , dread rising in the pit

back to the place Id been raised since they poisoned me with silver and

never intended to go

to search the house , Dane

the book closed

We dont .

book will guide us

all we

this ceremony in here ? he asked

I hesitated .

civil conversation this long … ever

It was strange .

wasnt sure how I felt

magical locks that keep the relic

I believe we can figure it out

we could if my grandmother was right , and the prophecy on the first page of the book talk me being

few years Id known her

, there was no need for me

But Dane shook his

little about messing

certain , you do everything required ,

the Reed pack house and find those pages

at his

No we dont .

suddenly , all the rage and threat hed

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

me there the day

the night

I met

Everything hurt .

were

crawled through the forest

tiny corner of my mind , whimpering

right , I told

Please hang on .

! Even in the dream , my childhood was no more than a dark shadow ,