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 .

ever wanted to take

a world where my children and I and everyone else I loved could be

twenty steps when I realized where

one of the borders between Reed and Montague

the night

Id met

from the road like I

the flat place Id dragged myself through the ditch

the oak with gnarled roots that Id used

had cut

trees parted , and I stepped into the faint moonlight

was still

been built by a homesteader hundreds

covered in vines and

24 There was something to this

magic that

like destiny

Like fate .

Aurora .

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

here

gasped and tried to turn and run into the shadows

it was too late

caught me before I ran three steps

like a manacle of iron , and he jerked me

my protection , he growled , And you may have

should know that trespassing on my

Of course , she was

stay in her

her own

, shed have to prove she didnt have to obey

as I looked down at her , her pale coloring making her practically glow in the light of the moon , I couldnt help Chapter 24 wondering why

came to this place when my

they had been

dreamed of

life , where she was never a Reed

where there was peace , and she and I had been mated in a treaty instead of as the climax of a night of