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

looking over my shoulder

lay my head on

that part of me still wanted so badly to do

laughed without humor

Probably .

Esther keeps everything .

always been a

rubbed his chin

he made when he

Reed pack house is on

I remembered .

a year after our 3/6

been the win that turned the tide of the pack war against the Reeds

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

, dread

Id been raised since they poisoned me with silver and left me for Dane to

never intended to

search the

the book closed

We dont .

will guide us to

all we need

in here ? he

I hesitated .

had a civil conversation

It was strange .

how I felt about

required to undo the magical locks that keep the

believe we can figure it out

my grandmother was right , and the prophecy on the first page of the book

the few years Id known her , shed never been

, there was no

21 4/6 But Dane shook

a little about messing with ancient

certain , you do

need to go into the Reed pack house and find those pages

chilled at

No we dont .

, all the rage and threat hed been

Yes .

We do .

And we will .

the day after

of the night my family killed

I met

Everything hurt .

were on fire

crawled through the forest

up into a tiny corner of my mind , whimpering and

all right , I

Please hang on .

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