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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your actions. You will get your chance to

moment, I saw the boy

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

rest of us.”

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

to Alina, who stood. no more

her chest.

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

desk, it was almost

what you had to,” Dane whispered,

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for reassurance on his face. “Did I?

certainty. “You gave him every chance to prove

the words did encourage me,

soon as I finished all my work, I went to the dungeon. I wanted to see how

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

the oppressive silence broken only by the periodic dripping water

footsteps lifted his gaze; his eyes 1 narrowed as Alina came

said, her tone mocking. “Looks like

fists balled.

Alina’s

You did that all on your own. I

used me,” he growled in a low

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rage.

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I did. And you let me. Because deep down, you wanted all I promised,

anger seeped from Rowan, vanquished, his shoulders. sagging in defeat.

her head, pretending innocence. “Because I

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

him, shredding layers of his anger to reveal

realization of what he had been up to and how he was being played

to such an extent that its walls seemed to close in

the road the quiet envy and frustrations; the

louder, firmer. He didn’t raise his

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yet laced with an edge he

never heard before.

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

fallen trailor?” His voice

another step closer to the bars, laying hands lightly

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

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

deep, and his fists on

and Dane, you have it all! The pack, the respect, each other! And

unflinching. “You were never nothing, Rowan. You