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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midday, frustration had set in. Warrick slumped against the side

he muttered. “She’s sneaky, but she’s not stupid. If she’s hiding something, it’s

in front of him,

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

the heat in his frustration a match for my

drifting toward the packhouse. “Her stash,” I murmured,

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

I said, my voice

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

through every room we knew and every

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of a floorboard, the rustle of shifted paper always

after the hundredth

looking,” I insisted, though my

to waver.

by the edge. His brow furrowed as he crouched,

said,

side,

the stone, pulled and tugged it with grunting efforts, for it came loose. It showed a small, hallowed place behind. There was a bundled lot of

pulling the

letters, each one more damning than

Alina and someone outside the pack, someone she referred to only as

to destabilize leadership, to sow

made my blood run cold. It

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old mill tomorrow

then.”

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Warrick repeated, turning to me. “We have one

few miles to the east near the river, I think it has not been in use in

jaw clenched then. “She is up to something. And we just got

note and tucked it into my

this to Aurora.”

his hand clamping around my arm. “If we accuse Alina now, she’ll just deny it. But if we can catch her

in the balance

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

and I stood wordlessly in the dim light of the packhouse,

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

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until tomorrow?” I asked, my voice barely above a

keep our heads down. If Alina gets wind that we’ve found. these…” He didn’t need to

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