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

Chapter 248

AURORA

Morning sunlight leaked into my office and striped the wood desk piled high with reports.

My headache in protest as I went over the latest updates about pack matters. My mind went back to the increasingly weird behavior Rowan had shown of late.

The confrontations, the outbursts, the whispered discontent in the pack all these had reached a point whereby it could not be ignored.

I let out a deep sigh and leaned back into my chair, just then a sharp knock startled me from outside the door.

“Enter,” I called, straightening further when a guard burst in, pale and in a rush with every step.

“Luna,” he said, still catching his breath. “We’ve confirmed. involvement by Rowan in… suspicious activities. He’s been having secret meetings with Alina, and… ” The guard didn’t continue, his gaze fixed on the papers on my desk.

“He has been spreading rumors in the pack.”

I had thought by this time, such frustration from him should have gone, a phase he should get past. “Are you certain?” I

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asked, stiff, though shaking inside.

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He nodded, laying on my desk a small pile of papers. “These were found in his quarters plans for… something more than a simple rebellion.”

Not surprised, my eyes finally came to rest on the incriminating evidence laid before mine, and I began turning over theory upon theory in my head.

“Where is he now?”

“In his room,” the guard said. “Shall we…”

I breathed a deep, soul searching, inward breath while my mind balanced out various options. With firm resolve then, I nodded. “Yes. Arrest him. Silently. I don’t want to panic the pack.”

Muttering had begun almost immediately. By the time he was being marched out, manhandled with two guards, the pack in groups gathered, all whispering and guessing as to who it was.

“This can’t be happening.”

“Rowan? But why?” he hushed out, surprise laced deep into his

tone.

Loud protests came from Rowan as he was dragged toward the packhouse. “This is a mistake!” he yelled, the desperation in his voice high enough that it cracked. “I didn’t do anything wrong!”

I stepped down onto the packhouse steps. The noise of the

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crowd ceased as my presence was noted.

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have proof of your actions. You will get your chance to explain

mine, and in that one moment, I saw the boy he

in a mask of rage. “You think you’re perfect, don’t you?” he

rest of us.”

presence. “Take him away to

to Alina, who stood. no more than at the edge of the crowd, crossing her arms

her chest.

step closer to us or even say one word, yet

it was almost night time.

you had to,” Dane whispered, his hand

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on his face. “Did I? Did I fail

choices,” Dane said with certainty. “You gave him every

the words did encourage me, yet a

to the dungeon. I wanted to see how Rowan

spot where the

oppressive silence broken only by the periodic

as Alina came into view. She

said, her tone mocking.

rose, fists

you?” Alina’s smile spread

your own. I

used me,” he growled in a low voice

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rage.

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“Of course I did. And you let me. Because deep down, you wanted all I

vanquished, his shoulders.

pretending innocence. “Because

onto the bench, bowing his head. He sat amidst

him, shredding layers of his anger to reveal raw shame lying

least, this realization of what he had been up to and how he was being played upon. He hunched over, his head between his knees,

smaller restrictive to such an extent that its walls seemed to close

been thinking all the while along the road the quiet envy and frustrations; the urge and need

didn’t raise his head as

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my voice came soft, yet laced with an edge

never heard before.

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For one moment no

to see the fallen

hands lightly

sound. “Understand what? That I am a disappointment? That I let her wrap me into

face. “I want to understand why you didn’t come to me, why

his fists

spat, anger lacing his tone. “You and Dane,

never nothing, Rowan. You were one of us. You