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 of the

Id freed him from me ,

she kept them ? Dane

leaned close , looking over my shoulder

easy to lay my head on his shoulder

me still wanted so badly to do

without humor

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

always been

his

a familiar gesture one he made

Reed pack house is

I remembered .

raid a year after our 3/6

that turned the tide of the pack war against the

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

, dread rising in the pit of my stomach

since they poisoned me with silver and left me for

never intended to go back

we need to search the

the

We dont .

book will guide us to

all we need

in here

I hesitated .

a civil

It was strange .

sure how I felt

chosen is required to undo the magical locks that keep the relic safe

believe we can figure

prophecy on the first page of the book

few years Id known her

to find the chosen , there was no need for me to face my past and visit my abandoned childhood

4/6 But Dane shook

a little about messing

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

into the Reed pack

chilled at

No we dont .

suddenly , all the rage and threat

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

the day after

, I dreamed of the night my family killed

night I

Everything hurt .

were

crawled through the forest

tiny corner of my mind , whimpering

, I

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