Blood And Silver:Rise of the Alpha’s Rejected Mate

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TRAJAN

By the tree side, Piper and Warrick said nothing but stood in the air thick with tension, claw marks on the tree that neither was able to shake off, as Warrick leaned over to whisper into Piper’s

ear,

“Someone’s been here recently.”

Cold and cool, that early morning, the smell of dew on earth, like a ghost from its folds moved.

I stood at the edge of the forest, the toes of my booted feet in the dampening earth, and gave little heed to the soft tints of rose and gold across the sky.

I leaned against a tree, staring into the woods, lost in my own thoughts.

Last night’s laughter from Joclyn echoed in my mind, a sound that stirred something in me, I wasn’t ready to name. I ran my hand through my hair and sighed

“Focus, Trajan. You’ve got a patrol to lead.”

The crunch of dry leaves snapped me back into the real world.

Coming out from behind the trees with my casual stance, I was

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straining my eyes, catching every movement.

“You haven’t said a word lately,” Dane mentioned. Curiosity

sounded in his tone.

I shrugged my shoulders, “Just trying to keep everything running right on schedule. It’s always all about the pack.”

Dane tilted his head into an angle and viewed me. “Responsibilities or something else?

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driving at,” I

but sometimes, following your heart doesn’t mean you

“This isn’t

leadership is whole,” Dane ventured, his

patrol moved deliberately through the close forest as I barked instructions

into smaller units, each to their

as they worked, my mind began

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Joclyn, the quiet strength in her, the softening of her smile, and how her laughter could fill in even

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it was one of the younger wolves that spoke, nudging

it?” I asked,

finished the surveillance. Nothing out of

them onward. I pray they don’t notice my

as the pack fell into their routines, I found himself moving

knelt in the dirt, her hands filled with dirt as she gently worked over some piece of

waving in the wind, she took a piece of leaf to her nose and closed her eyes as she sniffed. Her beauty is out of this world. Joclyn, she looked

lost as I watched her, “Busy as ever,” I said, I sounded softer than I was

up, her smile

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don’t tend to themselves.

and sat on

wanted to thank you. For your advice. It

and stood back onto her heels. “You have always

and balanced her voice

almost the celebration of the lanterns

then lets it go in the air

revive it,” I said, catching myself off guard with

be great. Something for the pack to see.” She carried her basket

leave, her ash–colored dress flowing on the grass behind her. From

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even lower now in the horizon, I