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 deepest parts

him from me

think she kept them ? Dane asked

leaned close , looking over my shoulder

easy to lay my head on his shoulder

me still wanted so badly to do that

laughed without humor

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

been

his chin

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

Reed pack house is on

I remembered .

a year after our 3/6 Chapter 21

the win that turned the tide of

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

you saying ? I asked , dread

raised since they poisoned me with silver and left me

never intended to go back

to search the

the book

We dont .

guide us to the

we need

why is this ceremony in here ?

I hesitated .

civil conversation this long … ever

It was strange .

wasnt sure how I felt about

undo the magical locks that keep the relic safe

we can figure it

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

Id known her , shed never been

was no need for me

4/6 But Dane shook his

knows a little about messing with ancient

, you do everything required ,

to go into the Reed pack

at his words

No we dont .

toward me suddenly , all the rage and threat hed been missing

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

the day after tomorrow

next night , I dreamed of the

night I met Dane

Everything hurt .

veins were on

crawled through the

had curled up into a tiny corner of my mind ,

, I

Please hang on .

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