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 .

I ever wanted to take charge of my own

if I ever wanted to create a world where my children and I and everyone else I loved could be safe

more than twenty steps when I realized where I was

of the

Reeds had dumped me the night theyd killed my wolf

Id met

from the road like I was under

was the flat place Id

and I found the oak with gnarled roots that Id used like

that had cut

parted , and I stepped

was still

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

covered in vines and moss

24 There was something to this place

that lingered

tasted like

Like fate .

Aurora .

the hell are you doing here ? Dane stood on the wall , the moon

here as a

to turn

was

caught me before

like a manacle of iron , and he jerked me

, And you may

you of all people should know that trespassing on my land without

course , she was

to stay in her

own

, shed have to prove she didnt have to obey me

her , her pale coloring making her practically glow in the light of the moon , I

place when

they had been tonight

Id dreamed of her

life , where she was never

and she and I had been mated in a treaty instead of as the climax of a night of death