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

leaned forward, placing her

where she says one thing and then acts to the contrary. Talk about pack harmony while you’re behind

got a foothold with

little. “By

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

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

eyes sparkled with

she’ll hang herself. But be patient. Truth

turned to

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kind of gathering in celebration of the pack’s unity

will remind them what we have created together,” he said. “And it would give us an

to include everyone. It has to be all of

younger wolves, they’re often the most impressionable. Show them what

words struck a chord, and my jaw set. “Let’s do it. But we will

a small smile. “Careful not my strong suit, but for

then, and the tension in the

was in full gear. Dane took to rallying the wolves for the gathering while I sat down with the pack leaders.

energy into pounding the event into shape. “We’ll make this the best celebration this

a pissing

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cheeks colored, but

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

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

scattered, words scratched off

wolf

my head again and again, while no name was signed, as sure as the world, this was a

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

at the note, the

words blurred together and my mind spun as different pieces of recent events clicked

wolf concealing their actual intentions, simply waiting

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

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teeth, seemed to issue the word as if from a solid bronze

edge. “You look harassed,” she said, shutting

extending the note back

furrowed together while she read the words. She said nothing immediately after, heavy silence as she weighed her

“The phrasing is deliberate. Whoever wrote this wanted

nodded. “You think it’s

possible,” she said, “but Alina’s manipulations are sometimes so straightforward. This could be someone trying to warn you against

whispered, thinking of all the pack members I trusted. Was one of

be on our guard,”

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

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