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

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ALINA

“Pity”

There was something that I liked about Aurora that didn’t waste words on formalities when they might get in the way.

I was on my way to disturb her again the next day she was already in sight when I suddenly heard a sound.

Aurora’s head snapped toward the sound, her body moving instinctively before her mind could catch up.

“What’s happening?” she asked, already stepping away.

I followed, my pulse quickening as a faint orange glow lit up the

horizon.

The flicker of flames danced against the sky, and my mind raced

to make sense of it.

This wasn’t part of any plan. The devised chaos like this only worked when it was controlled.

I soon arrived at the village center, where wolves were by now struggling to put out the fire.

A big sack of hay near one of the store sheds had gone up in

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flame, lashing hungrily with their tongues of fire against the wooden structure.

“Get water!” Dane yelled above the noise of uproar, and his commanding appearance snapped the wolves into action.

In an instant, Aurora was at his side, her voice piercing the noise, sharp with instructions.

“Form a line from the well! Move, move!”

I hung to the edge of the chaos, watching the scene unfold.

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fire wasn’t huge, but it was enough to sow panic among

distracted by trying to restrain the fire, and

steps were

untouched by the fire suspiciously so I went to the largest, its darkness deep and

was cool and damp, smelling of earth and wood, filling my

the back corner where a stack

covered in dust.

saw one open with a practiced hand and found a

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of letters, tucked

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cracks on the walls

the rough handwriting on

over words, my eyes narrowing to fit together fragments of thoughts

“Foolish boy,” I grumbled.

incriminating letters in my pocket, careful to touch nothing

far as anybody who came into it would tell, would seem not to have been

I now had what I needed

I re–entered the village square, the fire was smothered, and the wolves, relieved,

but her

strength is in our response,” she said, her voice

were tested, and

heads toward her

response.

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caught mine, and half of me expected her to

she didn’t; she turned her attention again to Dane

the darkness once more, my

to her for guidance. It was admirable, in

to protect them, she would

until it was too

would make

of the murmuring crowd, the

this fully,” she promised,

came about and make certain that it

was standing beside her, his hand on her