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

forward, placing her

where she says one thing and then acts to

with some

“By being better leaders.

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

intent. “And Alina? How do we deal with

sparkled with

hang herself. But be patient. Truth has

morning wore on, our discussion turned to rebuilding

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of gathering in celebration of

said. “And it would give us an opportunity to keep a close eye

everyone. It has to

often the most impressionable. Show them what true leadership looks

and my jaw set. “Let’s

not my

tension in

full gear. Dane took to rallying the wolves for

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

a pissing contest with Warrick,”

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but she grinned. “No

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

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

frowned as I unfolded the paper: handwriting scattered, words scratched off with the greatest possible haste, it

wolf in

in my head again and again, while no name was signed, as

pack

the note, the meaning weighing in my

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

about Alina, or was another wolf concealing their actual intentions,

door startled me; instinctively I

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the voice, within its gates of teeth, seemed to issue the word as if

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

the words, extending the note back out to her. “This was left

said nothing immediately after, heavy silence

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

nodded. “You think it’s

sometimes so straightforward. This could be someone trying to warn you against a danger you’ve

I whispered, thinking of all the pack

shall have to be

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

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