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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of your actions. You

eyes flashed to mine, and in that one moment, I saw the boy

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

rest of us.”

presence. “Take him away to the holding cells,”

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

her chest.

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

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

Dane whispered, his

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looked up then, searching for reassurance on his face.

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

the words did encourage me, yet a doubt

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 shielded

oppressive silence broken only by the periodic dripping

gaze; his eyes 1 narrowed as Alina came

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

fists balled.

Betrayed you?” Alina’s

all on your own.

in a low voice

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rage.

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glowing. “Of course I did. And you

vanquished,

her head, pretending innocence. “Because

head. He sat amidst the

him, shredding layers of his

what he had been up to and how he was being played upon. He hunched over, his head between his knees, and went into

much smaller restrictive to such an extent that its walls

he had been thinking all the while along the road the

time the footsteps came louder, firmer. He didn’t

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came soft, yet laced with an

never heard before.

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For one moment no anger glinted in my

to see the fallen

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

I am a disappointment? That I let her wrap me

slightest change grace my face. “I want to understand why you

and his fists on his thighs

otherwise!” he spat, anger lacing his tone. “You and Dane, you have it all!

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