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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lead turned up

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set in. Warrick slumped against the side of the

she’s not stupid. If she’s hiding something, it’s probably somewhere we’d never

front of him, my

and Alina doesn’t strike

Warrick snapped, the heat in his frustration a

packhouse.

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

said, my voice whittling

secrets. Alina’s no different. We just have to figure out

started with the packhouse, working our way methodically through every room

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the creak of a floorboard, the rustle of shifted paper

hundredth empty drawer. “This is

insisted, though my own resolve

to waver.

the edge. His brow furrowed as he crouched, his hand brushing against the edge of a loose stone in the

he said, his

ran to his side, my heart racing.

came loose. It showed a small, hallowed place behind. There was a bundled lot of papers, tied by

muttered, pulling the

letters, each one more

and someone outside the pack, someone she referred

spoke of plans to destabilize leadership, to sow discord, and to exploit the

in particular, made my

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at the old mill tomorrow night. We’ll finalize

then.”

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to me. “We

east near the river, I think it

something. And we just got ourselves in

it

this to Aurora.”

accuse Alina now, she’ll just deny it.

of what hung in the balance weighing upon

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

packhouse, the weight of what we’d uncovered weighing heavier

my fingers clenching on the fragile papers. The mere idea of what Alina could be

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

a hand through his hair, his jaw clenching. “Wel keep our heads down. If Alina gets wind that we’ve

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