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 .

wanted to take charge of

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

taken more than twenty steps when I realized where

one of the borders between Reed and Montague

the night theyd killed my wolf with

Id met Dane

turned from the road like I

flat place

found the oak with gnarled roots that Id used like handholds

here were the half buried boulders that had cut into my hands and bruised

trees parted , and I

wall was

it had probably been built by a homesteader hundreds of years ago

covered in vines

something to this place

magic that lingered

like

Like fate .

Aurora .

wall , the moon shining over his broad shoulders ,

here as a wolf

gasped and tried to turn and run into the shadows

it was too

before

my wrist like a manacle of

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

you of all people should know that trespassing on my land

course ,

told her to stay in her

own

shed have to prove she didnt have to obey me

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

came to this place when my dreams were troubled

they had been tonight

dreamed of her

, where she was never a

been mated in a treaty instead of as the climax of