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 .

I ever wanted to take charge of

I ever wanted to create a world where my children and I

more than twenty steps when I

road used to mark one of the borders between

had dumped me the night theyd killed my

Id met Dane

from the road like I was

place Id dragged myself through

and I found the oak with gnarled roots that Id used like handholds to

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

parted , and I stepped into the faint moonlight

wall was still

had probably been built by a homesteader hundreds of years ago

in vines

There was something to

magic that

tasted like destiny

Like fate .

Aurora .

you doing here ? Dane stood on the wall , the moon shining over his broad shoulders

run here

and tried to turn and run

was too

He caught me before I ran three

like a manacle of

growled , And you

people should know that trespassing on

Of course , she was

her to stay in her house

her own safety

to prove she didnt have to obey me

as I looked down at her , her pale coloring making her practically glow in the light

this place when my dreams were troubled

they had been

dreamed of

life , where

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