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 to explain yourself, but for now,

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

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

rest of us.”

me, solid, sure, a stabilizing presence. “Take him away to the holding cells,” he

stood. no more than at the edge of the

her chest.

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

was almost night time.

Dane whispered, his hand warm against

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for reassurance on his face. “Did

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

did encourage

work, I went to the dungeon.

stood in a spot where the darkness shielded me as

the narrow bench, head in hands, the oppressive silence broken only by the periodic dripping water

lifted his gaze; his eyes 1 narrowed as Alina came into view. She walked to the

she said, her tone mocking. “Looks like you’ve finally

fists balled.

Betrayed you?” Alina’s smile spread

Rowan. You did that all on your own. I just gave you the push

in a

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rage.

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

from Rowan, vanquished, his

cocked her head, pretending innocence. “Because I

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

at him, shredding layers of his

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

smaller restrictive to such an extent that its walls seemed

road the quiet envy and frustrations; the urge and need to

footsteps came louder, firmer. He didn’t

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voice came soft, yet laced with

never heard before.

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gaze met mine. For one moment no anger glinted in my

fallen trailor?” His voice was bitter,

bars, laying hands lightly on cold

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

change grace my face. “I want to understand why you didn’t come to me, why you felt this

his fists on

anger lacing his tone. “You and Dane, you have it all! The pack, the

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