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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turned up

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

we’re overthinking this,” he muttered. “She’s sneaky, but she’s not stupid. If she’s hiding something, it’s

of him, my mind

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

Warrick snapped, the heat in his frustration

packhouse. “Her stash,” I murmured, more to

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

I said, my voice whittling down to bone

they stash their secrets. Alina’s no different. We just

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

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of a floorboard,

hundredth empty drawer.

looking,” I insisted, though my own

to waver.

hour later we were about to give up when Warrick stopped by the edge. His brow furrowed as he crouched, his hand brushing against the edge of a loose stone in the

he said, his voice

side,

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

pulling the

were letters, each one more

Alina and someone outside the pack, someone

destabilize leadership, to sow discord, and to exploit the

in particular, made my blood run cold. It read:

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old mill

then.”

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old mill?” Warrick repeated, turning to me. “We have one of these

whisper. “Some few miles to the east near the river, I think it has not

something. And we just got

it

this to Aurora.”

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

in the balance

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

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

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

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tomorrow?” I asked, my voice barely above

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

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