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

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

hadnt taken more than twenty steps

to mark one of the

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

night Id

like I was under

flat place

found the oak with gnarled roots

that had cut into

, and I stepped into

was still

so old ; it had probably been

in vines and

24 There was something to this

that lingered

tasted like

Like fate .

Aurora .

? Dane stood on the wall ,

must have run here as a

gasped and tried to turn and run into the

it was too late

before I ran

of iron , and he

be under my protection , he growled , And

trespassing on my land without permission means

, she was

stay in her house

own safety

, shed have to prove she didnt have to

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

I came to this place when

they had

dreamed of

alternate life , where she was never a

mated in a treaty instead