Blood And Silver:Rise of the Alpha’s Rejected Mate

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PIPER

As I entered the common hall, the pungent smell of dew and pine traveled in the morning air.

My mind jumped back to the note Dane had spoken of but I had no idea as far as its contents were concerned.

The itch in my head seemed to have turned disturbing and so my eyes began searching the room for a clue of any sort.

It was a stray piece of paper on the edge of the table where Alina had sat during yesterday’s meeting half concealed under a folded napkin that first caught my eye as the hall began filling with wolves readying for the tasks of the day.

My brow furrowed as I reached for it, my fingers brushing against the rough papers.

The moment the note opened in my hand, my stomach somersaulted. The script was squeezed, rushed, and unfamiliar.

All it said was, “Keep the next move discreet. They can’t suspect. anything yet.”

I closed my fingers more tightly over the paper as my gaze flashed around the room. Alina wasn’t anywhere, yet I could sense her behind me, lurking like a ghost.

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“Warrick,” I whispered, clenching his arm as he strode into the training ground later that afternoon..

He froze mid stride, the perpetual grin on his face faltering as he took in the look on my face.

“What’s wrong?”

I held up the note, my voice low and urgent. “I found this near Alina’s seat after yesterday’s meeting. It’s. suspicious.”

He took the note from me, brows furrowing as he read. “What the hell is this?

“That’s what we need to find out,” I said, crossing my arms. “I don’t trust her, Warrick. There’s something she’s hiding, and if we don’t figure it out”

“She’s going to get away with it,” he finished, his voice hardening.

I nodded. “Exactly.”

For a moment, Warrick’s gaze flickered with hesitation. Then he sighed, shoving the note into his pocket. “All right. Where do we

start?”

We had spent hours checking her usual haunts: the storage shed near the edge of the village, the abandoned cottage she would often sneak to under the pretense of “training,” even her

quarters.

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slumped against the side of the training

not stupid. If she’s hiding something, it’s

paced in front of him, my mind

has to be something. Notes don’t write themselves, and Alina doesn’t strike me as the type to

is it?” Warrick snapped, the heat in his frustration a match

footsteps, my eyes drifting toward the packhouse. “Her stash,” I

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

voice whittling down

different. We just have to figure out where

working our way methodically through every room we knew and every crawl space

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was long and torturous the creak of a

after the hundredth empty drawer. “This is

looking,” I insisted, though my

to waver.

later we were about to give up when Warrick stopped by the edge. His brow furrowed as he crouched,

said, his voice

ran to his side,

the stone, pulled and tugged it with grunting efforts, for it came loose. It showed a small,

pulling the

each one more damning

someone outside the pack,

to sow

letter, in particular, made my blood

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the old mill tomorrow

then.”

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to me.

in a whisper. “Some few miles to the east near the river, I think

something. And

folded the note and tucked it into my

this to Aurora.”

accuse Alina now, she’ll just deny it. But if we can

the weight of what hung in the balance weighing upon me like a

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

packhouse, the weight of

looked down at the letters in my hand, my fingers clenching on the fragile papers. The mere idea of what Alina could be planning tied my stomach

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we do until tomorrow?” I asked, my voice barely

heads down. If Alina gets

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