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

him from

you think she kept them ? Dane asked

leaned close , looking over my shoulder

head on

I hated that part of me still

laughed without humor

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

been a

his

gesture one he made when he was deep

old Reed pack house is

I remembered .

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

the tide of the pack war against

Council asking to end our marriage , and the

, dread rising in the pit of my stomach

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

intended to go

need to search the house ,

snapped the book closed

We dont .

guide us to the relics

all we need

in

I hesitated .

had a civil conversation this long …

It was strange .

sure how I

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

can figure it

if my grandmother was right , and the prophecy on the

the few years Id known her

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

Dane shook his

grandfather knows a little about messing

, you do everything required , or

into the Reed pack

chilled at his

No we dont .

me suddenly , all the rage and

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

me there the day after tomorrow

dreamed of the night my family killed

I met Dane

Everything hurt .

were on fire

crawled through the

into a tiny corner of my mind , whimpering and crying

all right , I told her

Please hang on .

leave me ! Even in the dream , my childhood was no more than a dark shadow , but I knew my wolf was the reason