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

where my children and I

taken more than twenty steps when I realized where I

of the borders between Reed

the

night Id met

turned from the road like I was under a

the flat place Id dragged myself through the

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

boulders that had cut into my hands and bruised my knees

and I

wall was still

been built by a

in vines and

There was something to

that lingered

like destiny

Like fate .

Aurora .

doing here ? Dane stood on the wall , the moon shining over

run here as a

to turn

it was too

He caught me before I ran

my wrist like a manacle of

may be under my protection , he growled , And you may

people should know that trespassing on my land without

course ,

told her to stay in

own safety

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

in the light of the moon , I couldnt help Chapter 24 wondering why

to this place

had

Id dreamed

alternate life , where she was

in a treaty instead