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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actions. You will get your

eyes flashed to mine, and in that one moment, I saw the boy he had been: all earnest, all yearning, all

“You think you’re

rest of us.”

“Take him away to the holding cells,” he said to

Rowan’s eyes flicked to Alina, who stood. no more than at the edge of

her chest.

closer to us or even say one word, yet her

office desk, it was almost

Dane whispered, his

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on his face. “Did I? Did I

gave him every chance to prove himself. This isn’t

did encourage me,

as I finished all my work, I went to

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

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

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

tone mocking. “Looks like you’ve

fists

Betrayed you?” Alina’s

all on your own. I just gave you

used me,” he growled in a low voice

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rage.

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

from Rowan, vanquished, his shoulders. sagging

her head, pretending innocence.

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

of his anger to reveal

had been up to and how he was being played upon. He hunched

to such an extent that its walls seemed

along the road the quiet envy and

louder, firmer. He didn’t raise his head as they

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came soft, yet

never heard before.

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up more slowly. His gaze met mine. For one moment no anger

fallen trailor?” His voice

laying hands lightly on cold metal. “I came to

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

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

cut deep, and his fists on his

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

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