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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slumped against the side of the training arena, his

overthinking this,” he muttered. “She’s sneaky, but she’s not stupid. If she’s hiding something, it’s probably somewhere we’d never think to

paced in front of him, my

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

the

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

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

got one,” I said, my voice whittling

different.

our way methodically through every room we knew

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a floorboard, the rustle of shifted paper

said after the hundredth empty drawer.

though my

to waver.

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

he said,

ran to his side, my heart racing.

showed

Warrick muttered, pulling the

one more

Alina and someone outside the pack, someone she referred

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

my blood run cold. It

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at the old mill tomorrow night.

then.”

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

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

to something. And we just

the note and tucked it into my pocket. “We have

this to Aurora.”

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

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

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

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

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

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tomorrow?” I asked, my voice barely

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

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