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.

smell of charred wood still lingered in the air. combined

a crouch, eyes scanning the earth, tracing the significant are

“Of course it wasn’t.”

Trajan strode to a stop beside me, his stone expression softened to wrinkles of

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sent you

“I came because

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

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“You think it’s something

is,” I said resolutely. “And unless we are really careful,

a low branch. Black and coarse. Nothing any of our pack would

was did not hang about,

trunk was a rude drawing, a circle scribed by a jagged line

to the side. “What

whispered. “But we better get

to the pack house and I went to look for Dane. I found him in the war

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pushing too hard, Dane,” I said, slapping

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not pushing hard. enough. You want

toughest. It’s calculated. They are testing us, Dane. One wrong move and

decide to play

moving in closer. “Charging into their trap doesn’t make us strong, it makes

onto the table, jolting the maps. “We can’t afford to

“It’s about knowing when to

absolute silence, only the tension hanging in the

between us.

though no softer

speak, but I closed it back as I closed my eyes

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going. to say something, as if he was going to call on me