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?”

scowled. “And how do

forward, placing her hands in

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 and then acts to the contrary.

foothold with

“By being better

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

How do we deal with her

sparkled

she’ll hang herself. But be patient.

our discussion turned to rebuilding

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of gathering in celebration of the

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

include everyone. It

don’t forget the younger wolves, they’re often the most impressionable. Show them what

chord, and my jaw set. “Let’s do it. But we will have to be

smile. “Careful not my strong suit, but

then, and the tension in the

was in full gear. Dane took to rallying the wolves for the gathering while

into pounding the event into shape. “We’ll make

a pissing contest with Warrick,”

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but she grinned. “No

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as the day wore on, the pack dynamic shifted and that bled out into

office, there was a paper folded

words scratched off with the greatest

wolf in sheep’s

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

pack or, rather, with something entirely different

stared at the note, the meaning

spun as different pieces

was another wolf concealing their actual intentions, simply waiting for an opportune time to

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

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its gates of teeth, seemed to issue the

edge. “You look harassed,”

the note back out to her.

words. She said nothing immediately after, heavy silence

this wanted to sow doubt, but it feels more

nodded. “You think

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

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

be on our guard,” Joclyn

and ears everywhere, watching your every move. And if it has to do

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