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?”

how do we make

forward, placing her hands in her

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

to Dane. “She’s already got a foothold with some

“By being better

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

Alina? How do

sparkled with

hang herself. But be patient. Truth has

morning wore on, our discussion turned

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talked about holding some kind of gathering in celebration of

what we have created together,” he said. “And it would give

need to include everyone.

they’re often the most impressionable. Show them what true leadership looks

set. “Let’s do it. But we will have

“Careful not

chuckled then, and the tension in the room

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

backbone, throwing herself with energy into pounding the event into shape. “We’ll

don’t make it a pissing contest

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cheeks colored, but she grinned.

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

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

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

the wolf

reread that message in my head again and again, while no name was signed,

right with this pack or, rather, with something

the note, the meaning weighing

blurred together and my mind spun as different pieces of

it about Alina, or was another wolf concealing their

startled me; instinctively I folded up

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its gates of teeth, seemed to issue the word as if from a

any razor edge. “You look harassed,” she

note back

She said nothing immediately after, heavy silence as she weighed her

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

nodded. “You think it’s

could be someone trying to warn you against a danger you’ve overlooked.”

of all the pack members I

be on our guard,”

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

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