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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you are driving at,”

but sometimes, following your heart doesn’t

“This isn’t about me, Dane.

leadership is whole,” Dane ventured, his

forest as I barked instructions without reserve. “Check the northern

nodded as one, breaking into

they worked, my mind began

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smile,

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younger wolves that spoke, nudging my

it?” I asked,

finished the surveillance. Nothing out of the

them onward. I

their routines, I found himself moving toward the gardens. There,

with dirt as she gently worked over some piece of

closed her eyes as she sniffed. Her beauty is out of this world. Joclyn, she looked like a forbidden fruit… a tasty forbidden

as I slowly stepped closer to her, lost as I watched her, “Busy as ever,” I said, I sounded softer than I was

up, her smile

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plants don’t tend to themselves. Do you want

sat on a nearby

you. For your

dusted her hands and stood back onto her heels. “You have always known,

into some of the old manners and balanced her voice soft, but

it was almost the celebration of the lanterns season and some folks were already engaging in it, the light within

a lantern then lets it go in the

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

mine, her smile spread. “That would be great. Something for the pack to see.” She carried her basket of herbs and walked away, her eyes on

watched her leave, her ash–colored dress flowing on the grass behind her. From my perspective, she looked like a

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continued to set, even lower now in the