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 .

to take charge of my own life

to create a world where my children and

twenty steps when I realized

used to mark one of the borders between Reed and

Reeds had dumped me the night theyd killed my wolf with silver

Id met Dane

turned from the road like I

flat place Id dragged myself

found the oak with gnarled roots that Id used like

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

, and I stepped

was still there

; it had probably been built by

in vines

something

magic that lingered

like destiny

Like fate .

Aurora .

the wall , the moon shining over his broad shoulders , his

have run here

tried to turn and run into

was too late

He caught me before I ran three steps

a manacle of

my protection , he growled , And you

that trespassing

, she was

her to stay in

her own

shed have to prove

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

place when my dreams were

they had

dreamed of

an alternate life , where she was never a

was peace , and she and I had been mated in a treaty