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 .

in the deepest parts

him from me , too

she kept them ? Dane asked

close , looking over my

to lay my head on

part of me still wanted so badly to do

without humor

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

always been a

rubbed his

a familiar gesture one he made when

old Reed pack house

I remembered .

chased them out in a raid a year after our 3/6 Chapter 21 forced

been the win that turned the tide of the pack war against the

end our marriage , and the first time the

you saying ? I asked , dread rising in the

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

intended to go back

search the house ,

the book

We dont .

us to

all we

is this ceremony in

I hesitated .

and I hadnt had a civil conversation this long …

It was strange .

I

required to undo the magical locks that keep the relic safe

can figure it out

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

few years Id known her , shed never

no

21 4/6 But Dane

a little about

thing is certain , you do everything required , or

to go into the Reed pack house and find those pages

chilled at

No we dont .

suddenly , all the rage and threat hed been missing back in his voice

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

the day

the

night I met

Everything hurt .

veins were on

crawled through the forest

curled up into a tiny

all right , I told her

Please hang on .

in the dream , my childhood was no more than a dark shadow , but I knew my wolf was the reason I had survived