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

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AURORA

I passed Warrick in the hall; his features cut with guilt and regret.

Deep inside, something was amiss, but somehow, my mind wasn’t really there again. Dane’s ambition had started snowballing out of control, and I had to get some answers before things completely got out of hand.

I’d been watching Dane across the dining hall, stiffened in his chair as he spoke with Trajan about patrols, when something in the set of his shoulders was not quite right these times heavier, sharper.

“Something on your mind?” I asked, sliding into the seat beside him.

His gaze

flicked to me briefly before returning to the map spread out before him. “Nothing I can’t handle.”

I laid a hand on the map, stalling his movements. “Dane, this isn’t like you. You’re pushing too hard. What’s really going on?”

He leaned back with a sigh. “The campfire near the border isn’t random, Aurora. It’s a sign. Wolves test us, and if we don’t act now, they’ll think we’re weak.”

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I frowned. “And your solution is to claim more land? You’re risking everything we’ve built for what? Pride?”

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His voice was low and sharp. “It’s not pride, it’s survival. The moment we show hesitation, we lose. You know that as well as do.”

Our conversation was brought to a close by the arrival of Piper. her eyes unreadable as she held a series of fast flashes of eve contact with Warrick.

Something silent hung between them, but before I could comment on it, abruptly Dane stood.

“We’ll talk later,” he said, his tone ending the matter.

Later that afternoon, I went into the woods, closer to the border where Dane had described to me that the campfire had been.

faint smell of charred wood still lingered in the air. combined

eyes scanning the earth, tracing the significant are of rocks around the depression. “This

“Of course it wasn’t.”

Trajan strode to a stop beside me, his

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“I came because I’m worried. He’s

seeing what I was seeing. “This isn’t about territory. There’s a pattern

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arms. “You think it’s something bigger

said resolutely. “And unless we are really careful,

a piece of fabric hanging from a low branch. Black and coarse. Nothing any of our pack

it was did not hang about, apparently,” Trajan

sorts.” I nodded towards the tree beside him. Etched into its trunk was a rude drawing, a circle scribed by a jagged line with smaller ones intertwined into a pattern

cocked his head to the side. “What

warning,” I whispered. “But

and I went to look for Dane. I found him in

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Dane,” I said, slapping the

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his brow. “And you’re not pushing hard.

even hear yourself?” I snapped, “It’s not some game of who’s the toughest. It’s calculated. They are testing us,

Just sit around and wait? Hope they’ll decide to play nice?” His voice is getting louder; frustration sizzles

saying we need to be smart,” I said, moving in closer. “Charging into their trap doesn’t make us strong, it makes

slammed a fist onto the table, jolting the maps. “We can’t afford to look weak, Aurora. Not now, not

loudest,” I replied, cold. “It’s about knowing when to act and

absolute silence, only the tension hanging

between us.

softer reassurance, “I

speak, but I closed it back as I

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turned to me and his eyes softened a bit, as if he was going. to say something, as if he was going to call on me to apologize and at least give ears to my opinion. But, no, he looked away