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 .

take charge of my

if I ever wanted to create a world where my children and I and everyone else I loved could be safe

hadnt taken more than twenty steps when

of the borders between

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

night Id

like I was under a spell

was the flat place

found the oak with gnarled roots that Id used like handholds to drag myself

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

, and I stepped into the

was still there

been built by a

covered in vines and

24 There was something to this

magic that

tasted like destiny

Like fate .

Aurora .

stood on the wall , the

have run here as

to turn and run into the

it was

caught me before I ran three steps

hand wrapped around my wrist like a manacle of iron , and he jerked me back toward him

, he growled , And you may have

you of all people should know that trespassing on my land

, she was

told her to stay in

own

, of course , shed have to prove

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

I came to this place when

had been

dreamed of her

, where she was

she and I had been mated in a treaty instead of