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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You will get your chance

and in that one moment, I saw the boy he had been: all earnest, all yearning, all desperate

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

rest of us.”

sure, a stabilizing presence. “Take him away to the holding

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

her chest.

one step closer to us or even say

at my office desk, it was almost night time. My head

Dane whispered, his hand warm against my

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looked up then, searching for reassurance on his face.

said with certainty. “You gave him every chance to prove himself. This

encourage me, yet a

finished all my work, I went to the dungeon.

cell was cold, dimly lit, I stood in a spot where the darkness shielded me as I

in hands, the oppressive silence broken only

1 narrowed as Alina came into view. She walked

her tone mocking. “Looks like you’ve finally found

rose, fists

you?” Alina’s smile spread

that all on your own. I just gave you

used me,” he growled in a low voice and

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rage.

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bars, her eyes glowing. “Of course I did. And you let me. Because

vanquished, his shoulders.

head, pretending

back onto the bench, bowing his head. He sat amidst the silence after Alina

his anger to reveal

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, and went into quick shallow

an extent that its walls seemed to close in on

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

time the footsteps came louder, firmer. He didn’t raise his head as they stopped outside

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came soft, yet laced with an

never heard before.

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mine. For one moment no anger glinted

fallen trailor?” His voice

bars, laying hands lightly on

wasn’t a funny sound. “Understand what? That I am a disappointment? That I let her

didn’t flinch, I didn’t let the slightest change grace my face. “I want to understand why you didn’t

words cut deep, and his fists on his thighs curled

“You and Dane, you have

her eyes unflinching. “You were never nothing, Rowan. You were