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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against the side of the training arena, his hand raking through his

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

front of him, my

write themselves, and Alina doesn’t strike me as the type to leave

where the hell is it?” Warrick snapped, the heat in his frustration

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

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

said, my voice whittling down to bone with

place where they stash their secrets. Alina’s no different. We just have to figure out where it

with the packhouse, working our way methodically through every room we knew and every crawl

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torturous the creak of a floorboard, the rustle of shifted

hundredth empty

looking,” I insisted, though my own resolve

to waver.

brow furrowed as he crouched,

he said, his voice

his side, my heart

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

muttered, pulling

one more damning than the

between Alina and someone outside the pack, someone she

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

my

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old mill tomorrow night. We’ll

then.”

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turning to me. “We have one of

to the east near the

is up to something. And we just

it into my pocket. “We

this to Aurora.”

my arm. “If we accuse Alina now, she’ll just

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

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

the packhouse,

fingers clenching on the fragile papers. The mere idea of what

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do until tomorrow?” I asked, my

his hair, his jaw clenching. “Wel keep our heads down. If Alina gets wind that we’ve found. these…” He didn’t need to finish

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