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 that

forward, placing her hands

deceptions are brought out into the light. Create situations where

with some

a little. “By being better

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

do we

sparkled

she’ll hang herself. But be patient. Truth has a way of revealing

wore on, our discussion turned to rebuilding trust within the

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gathering in celebration of the pack’s unity

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

everyone. It

they’re often the most impressionable. Show

chord, and my jaw set. “Let’s do it. But we

smile. “Careful not my strong suit, but for

the tension in the room lessened

gear. Dane took to rallying the wolves for the gathering while I sat down with

into shape. “We’ll make this the best celebration this pack has ever seen,”

pissing contest with Warrick,” I

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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 were going

night, back in my office, there was a paper folded on my

paper: handwriting scattered, words scratched off with the greatest

wolf in

while no name was signed, as sure as the world, this was

with this pack or,

the meaning weighing in my

blurred together and my mind spun as

concealing their actual

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

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within its gates of teeth, seemed to

as cutting as any razor edge. “You look harassed,” she

extending the note back out to her. “This was left

She said nothing immediately after,

gaze. “The phrasing is deliberate. Whoever wrote this wanted to

nodded. “You

to warn you against a danger you’ve overlooked.” A shiver ran down my spine at the

pack members I trusted. Was

be on our guard,”

to do with Alina, she’ll have eyes and ears everywhere, watching your every move.

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