Blood And Silver:Rise of the Alpha’s Rejected Mate

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AURORA

A heavy weight hung in the air as I entered the private meeting

room.

Inside, Dane was leaning over the large oak table, his hands. bracing its surface.

His jaw was set, and a multitude of creases on his brow informed me he’d been deep in thought for quite a long period of time.

“You’re up early,” I said as I closed the door behind me.

He looked up, his blue eyes gleamed. “Couldn’t sleep. Too on my mind.”

I crossed the room and laid a hand on his shoulder. “We’ll figure this out. Together.”

He nodded but didn’t relax.

“Alina’s a problem we can no longer afford to ignore, Aurora. She plants those seeds of doubt everywhere. And if we’re not careful here, it could tear this pack apart.”

I let out a heavy sigh, tugging on a chair at the table and sat down.

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“You are right, but we mustn’t take careless steps either. If we take action against her without direct evidence, all it will prove is that we’re not qualified to rule the tribe.”

Dane sat across the table, the fingers of his hands drummed against the tabletop.

“Alright, what is the plan because doing nothing isn’t working for me.

I opened my mouth to answer, but the door creaked open and Jocyln stepped inside.

She was collected as ever, apparently covered in silk, heavy weave, subtle latticework serene; her silver hair flashed like splinters in the morning light.

“I thought I might find you here,” she said, closing the door behind her. “The pack is restless. They need reassurance.”

Dane nodded toward the vacant chair beside me. “We can use. your help, Joclyn.”

She dropped delicately into her chair, turning first to Dane and then to me. “What’s the current game plan?”

I bit my lip. “We were discussing that. These manipulations of Alina are like a fire in a windstorm. The thing is that anything directly done may just bring in reverse effect until we have concrete proof of what her motives are.”

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Joclyn leaned back in her chair, a reflective look on her face. “Sometimes, wisdom is in patience. Why go head on when we can just let her unmask herself?”

“And how do we make

her hands

behind, however, when their deceptions are brought out into the light. Create situations where she says one thing and then acts to the contrary. Talk

turned to Dane. “She’s already got a foothold with some of the wolves. How do we counter

little. “By being better

place. Strengthen your alliances, remind them of the pack’s values, and make clear that loyalty

do we deal with

sparkled with

herself. But be patient. Truth has a way of

our discussion turned

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of gathering in celebration of

“And it would give us an opportunity to keep a close eye on Alina

nodded. “We will need to include everyone. It

added, “And don’t forget the younger wolves, they’re often the most impressionable. Show them

jaw set. “Let’s do it. But we will have to be

lips hitched into a small smile. “Careful not my strong

then, and the tension in the room

for the gathering while I sat down with the pack leaders. to discuss

throwing herself with energy into pounding the event into shape. “We’ll make this the

a pissing contest

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wore on, the pack dynamic shifted and that bled out into the world beyond the edges, like finally they were

that night, back in my office, there was a paper

as I unfolded the paper: handwriting scattered, words scratched off with the greatest possible

the wolf in

that message in my head again and again, while no name was signed, as sure as the world, this

all right with this pack or,

the meaning weighing

and my mind spun as different pieces of recent events clicked

Alina, or was another wolf concealing their actual intentions, simply waiting for an opportune

me; instinctively I folded up the note and thrust it in the

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of teeth, seemed

razor edge. “You look harassed,”

back out to her. “This

she read the words. She said nothing immediately after, heavy silence as she

phrasing is deliberate. Whoever wrote this wanted to sow doubt, but it

“You think it’s

to warn you against a danger you’ve overlooked.” A shiver ran down

thinking of all the pack members I trusted. Was one of them keeping

to be on our guard,” Joclyn

have eyes and ears everywhere, watching your every move. And if it has to

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