Blood And Silver:Rise of the Alpha’s Rejected Mate

Chapter 73 AURORA Panic rising , I dug around for the papers .

I knew they were in my top desk drawer .

Id been so specific .

about leaving them there .

Then I saw them not in a drawer at all , but on top of a paper organizing tray .

I wanted to snatch them up , but the paper was old .

Yellowed and brittle with age .

Carefully , I lifted them and set them I the center of my desk .

You found them , then ? Dane asked .

I flicked my eyes to him , then back to the papers .

That wasnt where I left them .

Im certain of it .

Dane frowned .

Are you ? Yes , I insisted .

I flared my nostrils and scented , but without a wolf , there was no way if I could tell someone had been in here .

Seeing me , Dane did the same .

Then he shook his head .

There are no scents here but you and your pack .

I gritted my teeth .

I know it couldnt have been one of my people .

I trust them completely .

2/6 Do you trust them more than you trust your own memory ? Because either it was them , or you were mistaken about where you put the papers .

I wavered , uncertain .

I knew who I suspected : Evelyn .

My eyes went wide .

There was a chance and not a small one- that Dane could scent Evelyn in here , and he just wasnt telling me .

I searched his face, trying to gauge whether or not he might be lying to protect her .

It would be far , far from the first time .

was lying to protect her than

belong ? I asked , carefully watching to see if I

, he

my lips together and

it was full

suddenly

be with

my mistrust of myself and the years hed spent as my enemy made it

go ,

… unnerved by

like to get some

looked from me to my

entire body heat

, he said

exactly rude about it , but I

didnt blame

he was half as needy and aching for release as I was , frustration would be putting

to me and bent to kiss my

so he got my

he

hand on his chest

and

Soon , Dane .

I swear .

want you ,

said earlier , things are complicated

a kiss to the sensitive skin of my palm that sent fire burning down to

I held

tonight

myself … I wont know release

me waiting long

was gone , and I was left alone , trembling for more reasons

that

, because nothing could compare

several times , sweating in my twisted

sixth time , the sky

ratcheted my need up to something like pain , I went and sat

the lamp and took the papers in

power to translate had

for most of my life , and its symbols had been meaningless to

one day after the twins were born , I opened it again and

, read was a simple way

the page , the symbols would start

lines would seem to shift into

a feeling

book for too long would give

like the way heat distorted the air around it

a fire ; so strong it distorted the

of the distortions , or in spite of

no one else was capable