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 .

if I ever wanted to take charge of my own

wanted to create a world where my children and I and everyone

hadnt taken more than twenty steps when I realized where

one of the borders between

Reeds had dumped me the night theyd killed

Id met Dane

from the road like I was

flat place Id dragged myself through the

the oak with gnarled

buried boulders that had cut

, and I

was still

old ; it had probably been built by a homesteader hundreds of years

was covered in vines and

There was something to this place

magic that lingered

tasted like

Like fate .

Aurora .

on the wall ,

have run here

and tried to turn and run

it was too

He caught me before I ran three steps

like a manacle of iron , and he jerked me back toward

protection , he growled , And you may have been welcome at

trespassing on my land without permission means death

course , she was here

her to stay in

her own

, of course , shed have to prove she didnt have to

down at her , her pale coloring making her practically glow in the

came to this place when my dreams were

they had been

dreamed of

, where she was never

there was peace , and she and I had been mated in