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 .

gray wolf body at the head of my newly enlarged pack

as we surged downhill through trees and

Piper needed me .

Holden was there .

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to her

had to Dane … ! My paw caught on a root at the edge of an

stumbled and my head slammed into a stone

I blinked , and suddenly I wasnt in the terrible , cold palace with the Nameless

overlooking a wide

were blue with coming

were golden with autumn leaves

I spun

It was Dane .

the hill toward me

face

and felt and smelled

Like himself .

youre alive ? His face was grim , but he lifted the pearl

Thanks to you .

caught on the sky just above the trees , where a round , white moon hung

larger than it

that didnt

new moon

supposed to be

cannot give you much , a feminine voice

happening to you only you can

I can give you

to cling to

of

One stolen second .

of ti .

between time .

Dont waste it .

will be dark

met Danes dark

the goddess

mean , years ?

me in his arms , and they

through so fucking much

chosen , arent we ? We tried to do what she wanted and free the relic but found shadows

with more ? Another person might not have heard

him

hand to