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

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

taken more than twenty steps when I realized where

of the borders between Reed and

dumped me the night theyd killed my

night Id

road like I

, this was the flat place Id dragged

more steps , and I found the oak with gnarled roots that Id used

buried boulders that had cut into my hands and bruised

and I stepped into the

was still there

probably been built by a homesteader hundreds

in vines and

There was something to this place

magic that

like destiny

Like fate .

Aurora .

doing here ? Dane stood on the wall , the moon shining over

have run here as

turn and run into the shadows

it was too

He caught me before I ran

wrapped around my wrist like a manacle of iron

he growled , And you may have been welcome at the gala

all people should know that trespassing on my land without permission means

Of course ,

to stay

her own

have to prove she didnt have to obey me

pale coloring making her practically glow in the light of the

to this place when my dreams were troubled

they had

dreamed of

life , where

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