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

Chapter 74 AURORA No ! I leaped up from my desk so fast I knocked the heavy wooden chair over .

Yes , the clone of me hissed .

She rose and folded her arms across her chest in a superior way , then tilted her chin up so she was looking down her nose at me .

Youve forgotten yourself .

Who you were made to be .

Raised to be .

I took a step back , and the wicked version of myself answered by stepping around my desk .

Dont run from it , Ann .

You are a monster years in the making .

I opened my mouth to argue that I was no monster , but nothing .

came out .

The other me picked my journal up off my desk and weighed it in her hand .

Read this .

Youll see .

She offered it to me .

I shook my head .

Refused to take it .

Her smile turned into an evil grimace .

You wont go willingly ? Fine .

Go by force .

She lunged forward .

The book fell open with her movement , and she shoved it into my face .

I braced for the impact .

But there was no impact .

Chapter 74 2/6 Instead , when the pages hit me , the world went dark .

My office was gone .

The safe , cozy sights and scents of the Blue Ridge pack house were gone .

Instead , there was the old , musty scent of basement and damp .

stone .

I looked around .

I was in the Broken Forest pack house , where Id found the pages .

down at myself

my usual pastels or light neutrals , I

made my skin look white as printer

my hair

pulled into a thick French braid that hung straight down

me as if

my mind ,

of this was

This was me .

life Id lived for years

in a memory

my room this time but walking down a long

moved

to look to know it was Esther Reed

meant I had to be

latest mission was a

welled up in

knew what failure

Id bet whipped .

Bled .

, nothing could atone

no ! I

voice also

I 12 ? 13 ? No one seemed to know when my birthday

felt so wrong

wanted to be

my mother

things they made me do … Inside

like

and stunted , because I was weak and stunted

We werent enough .

my thoughts

Take her away .

raw from screaming , shell be allowed to try again

the guilt from her

Esther

, but I thought she said , Nameless help me , this one has been the hardest of all

through scenes of torture that made me weep with remembered

darkness again the darkness of

my heart started

stood outside with Esther and my Alpha , Waylon

tall , and when I looked down at my body ,

… colder

Numb .

was a weak , starving thing

to never shift because

hands , Esther

held them up

covered in blood

the Blue Ridge scouts

She was old .

Easy to kill .

, said

warmed me like a fire on a cold