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

stupid. If she’s hiding something, it’s probably

paced in front of him,

Alina doesn’t strike me

snapped, the heat in

stopped my footsteps, my eyes drifting toward the packhouse. “Her stash,” I murmured, more to

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

got one,” I said, my voice whittling down to bone

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

working our way methodically through

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a floorboard,

hundredth empty drawer.

insisted, though my own resolve was

to waver.

brow furrowed as he crouched, his hand brushing against the

he said,

side,

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

pulling the

papers were letters, each one

between Alina and someone outside the pack, someone she referred to

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

in particular, made my blood run

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the old mill tomorrow night.

then.”

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Warrick repeated, turning to me. “We have one of

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

then. “She is up to something. And we just got ourselves in

it into my pocket.

this to Aurora.”

“If we accuse Alina

weight of what hung in the balance weighing upon me like a boulder. “Tomorrow night,

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

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

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

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tomorrow?” I asked, my voice barely above

down. If Alina gets wind

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