Blood And Silver:Rise of the Alpha’s Rejected Mate

Chapter 24 AURORA 1/5 It was a long drive through the night to the home where Id grown up .

In the years since Dane had driven out the Reeds , several trees had fallen across the old gravel road .

About a mile away , I had to get out and walk .

I knew from my faded memories that the forest at night used to be a place I loved .

A place that familiar to me .

A place I called home .

When I had my wolf , I was one of the creatures that ruled the night .

Even so , there were places wolves didnt dare to go .

Places ruled by ancient , evil things .

Now that I didnt have a wolf the whole forest felt more like that .

There was only a sliver of a moon .

Even though I was on a road , the trees leaned over it , twining their branches together , making it so dark I couldnt see my feet , or the path .

I could have used a flashlight … but sometimes it was safer to move through the dark than to draw attention with a light .

There were noises in the forest , too .

People who arent used to the woods think of it as a quiet place , but it isnt .

There are always sounds .

Animals moving .

The wind blowing the leaves .

The sudden crack of old , dead branches Chapter 24 falling from trees .

I ignored them all , keeping my eyes forward as I made my way toward memories I wanted desperately to leave sleeping .

But I couldnt .

to take charge of my own

where my children and I and everyone else I loved could

steps when I realized where I

to mark one of the borders between

where the Reeds had dumped me the night

night Id met

turned from the road like I was under a

place Id dragged myself through the

, and I found the oak with gnarled roots that Id used like handholds to drag myself

the half buried boulders that had cut into my hands and bruised my

, and I stepped into the

wall was

; it had probably been built by a homesteader hundreds of

covered in vines

was something to this

magic that lingered

tasted like

Like fate .

Aurora .

hell are you doing here ? Dane stood on the wall , the moon shining over his broad shoulders ,

here as a

to turn and run into the

it was too

caught me before I

of iron

may be under my protection , he growled , And you

know that trespassing on my land without permission means

Of course , she was here

told her to stay

her own safety

to prove she didnt have to obey

practically glow in the light of the moon , I

came to this place when my dreams were

had

dreamed of

alternate life , where she was never a Reed

there was peace , and she and I had been mated in a treaty instead of