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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huge, but it was enough to sow panic among the pack. The perfect

were distracted by trying to restrain the fire, and I slipped

were deliberate,

suspiciously so I went to the largest, its

the air was cool and damp, smelling of earth and wood, filling

to the back corner where a stack

covered in dust.

open with a practiced hand and

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letters, tucked

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light filtering through the cracks on the

the rough handwriting

scanned over words, my eyes narrowing to fit together fragments

“Foolish boy,” I grumbled.

in

anybody who came into it would tell, would seem not

accident or otherwise and I now had what I needed to

the fire was smothered, and the

Dane, her shoulders down but her voice soft as she soothed the

is in our response,” she said,

were tested, and

their heads

response.

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to disperse, Aurora’s eyes caught mine, and half

her attention again to Dane as they spoke in

the darkness once

pack, the way they looked to her for guidance. It was admirable, in a way. But it also made her

her determination to protect them, she

until it

make sure it cut

murmuring crowd, the words soothing like

investigate this fully,” she promised,

came about and make certain that

on her