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 charge of my own

if I ever wanted to create a world where my children and I and everyone else

hadnt taken more than twenty steps when I realized where I

mark one of the borders between Reed

Reeds had dumped me the night theyd killed my

night Id met Dane

turned from the road like I was

flat place Id

and I found the oak with gnarled roots that Id

few more , and here were the half buried boulders that had cut into my hands and bruised my knees as I

trees parted , and I stepped into

was

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

in

24 There was something to

magic that

tasted like destiny

Like fate .

Aurora .

stood on the wall

run here

to turn

it was

before I

hand wrapped around my wrist like a manacle of iron , and he

may be under my protection , he growled , And you may have been welcome at the gala

should know that trespassing on my land without permission means

,

told her to stay

own

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

place

they had been tonight

Id dreamed of her

, where she was never

and I had been mated in