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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and sure. “Rowan, we have proof of your actions. You will get your chance to explain yourself, but for now,

that one moment, I saw the boy he had been:

his features darkened in a mask of rage. “You think you’re perfect,

rest of us.”

“Take him away to the holding cells,”

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

her chest.

take one step closer to us or even say one word, yet her smile ran

at my office desk, it was almost

what you had to,” Dane whispered, his hand

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for reassurance on his

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

course the words did encourage me, yet a

all my work, I went to the dungeon.

cell was cold, dimly lit, I stood in a spot where the

bench, head in hands, the oppressive silence broken only by

of footsteps lifted his gaze; his eyes 1 narrowed as Alina came into view. She walked to the bars and held

mocking. “Looks like you’ve finally found your

rose, fists balled.

you?” Alina’s smile spread

You did that all on your own.

in a low

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rage.

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

anger seeped from Rowan, vanquished,

head, pretending innocence.

the bench, bowing his head. He sat amidst the silence after Alina was long gone,

his anger to reveal raw

he was being played upon. He hunched over, his head between his

smaller restrictive to such an

himself, he had been thinking all the while along the road the quiet envy and frustrations; the urge and need to amount to

didn’t

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yet laced with an edge

never heard before.

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one moment

see the fallen trailor?” His voice was

to the bars, laying hands lightly on cold metal. “I

a funny sound. “Understand what? That I am a disappointment?

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

deep, and his fists on his thighs

seen me otherwise!” he spat, anger lacing his tone. “You and Dane, you have it all! The pack, the respect, each other! And

firmed, her eyes unflinching. “You were never nothing, Rowan. You were one of