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 that

forward, placing her hands

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

foothold with some of the wolves. How do

little. “By being

follow you in the first place. Strengthen your alliances, remind them of the pack’s values, and make clear that

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

sparkled with

enough rope, and she’ll hang herself. But be patient. Truth

on, our discussion turned to rebuilding

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holding some kind of gathering in celebration of the pack’s

“And it would give us

will need to include everyone. It has to be all of

forget the younger wolves, they’re often

and my jaw set. “Let’s do it. But we

not my strong suit, but for you,

then, and the tension in

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

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

pissing

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wore on, the pack dynamic shifted and that bled out into the world beyond the edges,

that night, back in my office, there

the paper: handwriting scattered, words

wolf in

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

this pack or,

stared at the note, the

as different

concealing their actual intentions, simply waiting for an opportune

instinctively I folded up the note and thrust it in

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in,” I said, and the voice, within its gates of teeth, seemed to issue the word as if

her keen vision as cutting as any razor edge.

note back out to her. “This

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

she met my gaze. “The phrasing is deliberate. Whoever wrote this wanted to sow doubt, but it feels more like a warning than a

nodded. “You

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

I whispered, thinking of all the pack members

to be

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

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