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 .

shadows in the deepest parts

from me

think she kept them ?

leaned close , looking

my head on his shoulder

hated that part of me still wanted so

laughed without humor

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

always been a hoarder

his chin

he made when

house is on my land

I remembered .

in a raid a year after our 3/6 Chapter

the win that turned the tide of the

went to the Council asking to end our marriage , and the first time the Council

I asked , dread rising in the

been raised since they poisoned me with silver and left me for

to

saying we need to search the house , Dane

snapped the book

We dont .

us to the relics

we

why is this ceremony in here ? he asked

I hesitated .

a civil conversation

It was strange .

wasnt sure how I felt about it

required to undo the magical locks that keep the

we can figure

least , we could if my grandmother was right , and the prophecy on the first page of the

years Id known her , shed

, there was no need for me to face my past

Dane shook his

about messing with ancient

thing is certain , you do everything required , or people die

to go into the Reed pack

at his words

No we dont .

and threat hed been missing back

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

there the day

the night

night I met

Everything hurt .

veins were

through

curled up into a tiny corner of my mind ,

right , I told her

Please hang on .

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