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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side of the training arena, his hand raking

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

paced in front of

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

is it?” Warrick snapped, the heat in his frustration a match for my

toward the packhouse. “Her stash,” I

Warrick frowned. “What stash?”

I said, my voice whittling down to

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

our way methodically through every room we knew and

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the creak of a floorboard, the rustle of shifted

said after the hundredth empty drawer.

I insisted, though my

to waver.

up when Warrick stopped by the edge. His brow furrowed as he crouched, his hand brushing against the

he said, his

side, my heart

it with grunting efforts, for it came loose. It showed a small, hallowed place behind. There was a bundled lot of papers, tied

muttered, pulling the bundle

papers were letters, each one more damning than

detailed communications between Alina and someone outside the pack,

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

in particular, made my blood run cold.

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old mill tomorrow

then.”

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

miles to the east near the river,

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

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

this to Aurora.”

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

of what hung in the balance

“Tomorrow night,” Warrick echoed.

I stood wordlessly in the dim light of the packhouse, the weight of what

clenching on the fragile papers. The mere idea of what Alina could

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tomorrow?” I asked, my voice barely above a

jaw clenching. “Wel keep our heads down. If Alina gets wind that we’ve found. these…” He

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