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

Chapter 145 AURORA I fout him , my mind pulling back from everything this creature was , everything it wanted from me .

But he leaned over me , grinned , and inhaled .

Black smoke rose from my chest and curled into a ball of black obsidian that hung between us , like a dark mirror image of the pearl pendant that had channeled my power as a healer .

I felt my heart start to turn cold as one by one , my memories of the good things in my life began to wink out like dying stars .

Evanders easy smile .

Trajans steadying voice .

Dane kissing me .

Dane … My children laughing as I read them a story .

It was all slipping away .

No ! I cried .

I tried to fight him , to hold on , but it was like water slipping through my fingers .

My heart screamed for what I was losing and started to freeze .

Chapter 145 At the same time , memories of my life as a young woman in Broken Forest were revealed .

The Reeds twisting my mind as a little girl , corrupting me , forcing me to believe that the only way I could be worthy and loved was to embrace loss , pain , and the dark .

Tha .

s what the Nameless wanted from me .

To be his beacon of pain .

To spread it across the world .

I had to fight .

Desperately , I flung my mind , and my heart out , searching for an anchor .

Something to hold just a small part of me .

There was no moon tonight , only darkness outside the windows .

And yet … I suddenly felt the smallest touch of … something … and a voice whispered , Even in the darkest times , I am here .

I grasped that power .

It was all I needed .

! **** DANE I ran in my big , dark gray wolf body at the head of my

whipped by as we surged downhill through trees and

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

already , I Chapter 145 3/5

to her in

Dane … ! My paw caught on a root at the

and my head slammed

wasnt in the terrible , cold palace with

hill , overlooking a wide lake

sky were

were golden

I spun

It was Dane .

me and caught me

my face against his chest

, but he looked and

Like himself .

but he lifted the pearl pendant I

Thanks to you .

on the sky just above the

than it was supposed to be

that didnt

the new moon right now

was supposed to be

give you much , a feminine voice whispered

to you only you

give you one

to cling to

of hope

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

dark …

Danes dark eyes

the goddess

did she mean , years

his arms , and they tightened around me

so

We tried to do what she wanted

with more ? Another person might not have heard the anguish hidden in the powerful

knew him

my hand to