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

a world of chaos. They fall behind, however, when their deceptions are brought out into the light. Create situations where she says one thing and then

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

a little. “By being better

in the first place. Strengthen your alliances, remind them of the pack’s

“And Alina? How do

eyes sparkled

her enough rope, and she’ll hang herself. But be patient. Truth has a way of revealing its

wore on, our discussion turned to rebuilding trust within

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holding some kind of gathering

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

will need to include everyone. It

don’t forget the younger wolves, they’re often

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

not my strong suit, but

chuckled then, and the tension in the room lessened a

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

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

a pissing contest with

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colored, but she grinned. “No

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shifted and that bled out into

my office, there

scattered, words scratched off with the

wolf in

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

weren’t all right with this pack or, rather, with

at the note, the

as different pieces of recent events

their actual intentions, simply

I folded

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I said, and the voice, within its gates of teeth, seemed to issue the word as if from a solid bronze

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

extending the note back

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

“The phrasing is deliberate. Whoever wrote this wanted to

nodded. “You

“but Alina’s manipulations are sometimes so straightforward. This could be someone trying to warn you

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

to be on our guard,”

she’ll have eyes and ears everywhere, watching your every move. And

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