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?”

do we make

placing her hands in her

fall 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 about pack harmony while you’re behind the scenes gathering evidence of her

got a foothold with some of

little. “By being better

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

intent. “And Alina? How do we deal with her without making it

sparkled with

and she’ll hang herself. But be patient. Truth

on, our discussion turned

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of gathering

have created together,” he said. “And it would give us an opportunity to

nodded. “We will need to include everyone. It has to be all of

often the most impressionable. Show

my jaw set. “Let’s do it. But we will

small smile. “Careful not my strong suit, but

then, and the tension in the room lessened

Dane took to rallying the wolves for the

was our backbone, throwing herself with energy into pounding the event into shape. “We’ll make this the best celebration this pack has ever seen,” she

it a pissing contest with Warrick,”

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colored, but she grinned.

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

office, there was a paper

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

the wolf in sheep’s

head again and again, while no name was signed, as sure as

all right with this pack or, rather, with something entirely different

the note, the

spun as different pieces of recent

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

I folded up the note and

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of teeth, seemed to

entered, her keen vision as cutting as any razor edge. “You look harassed,” she said, shutting the door

extending the note back out

furrowed together while she read the words. She said nothing immediately after,

wrote this wanted to

nodded. “You think

to warn you against a danger

of all the pack members I trusted. Was

be on our guard,” Joclyn

something to do with Alina, she’ll have eyes and ears everywhere, watching

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