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 .

driven them into the shadows in the

from me , too

she kept

looking over my

been easy to lay my head on his shoulder

that part of me still

without

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

always been a hoarder

rubbed his

a familiar gesture one he made when

pack house is

I remembered .

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

win that turned the tide of the pack

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

dread rising in the pit

raised since they poisoned me with silver and left me

never intended to

we need to search the house ,

the

We dont .

us

we need

this ceremony in here

I hesitated .

hadnt had a civil conversation this long

It was strange .

wasnt sure how I

the magical locks that keep the relic

believe we can figure it out

the prophecy on the first page of the book

her , shed never been wrong

there was no need to find the chosen , there was no need for me to face

But Dane

little about messing

certain , you do

Reed

at his

No we dont .

, all the rage and threat

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

me there the day

of the night my

night I

Everything hurt .

were

crawled through the forest

a tiny corner of

all right ,

Please hang on .

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