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.

still lingered in the air. combined with the

tracing the significant are of rocks around the depression.

“Of course it wasn’t.”

turned to see Trajan strode

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you after

he repeated. “I came because I’m worried. He’s not

nodded, happy someone else was seeing what I was

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“You think

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

fabric hanging from a low branch. Black and coarse. Nothing any

it was did not hang about, apparently,” Trajan

note of sorts.” I nodded towards the tree beside him. Etched into its trunk was a

cocked his head to the side. “What does it

a warning,” I whispered.

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

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too hard, Dane,” I said,

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his brow. “And you’re not pushing hard. enough. You want to wait until they’re

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

they’ll decide to

smart,” I said, moving in closer. “Charging into

the maps. “We can’t afford to look weak, Aurora. Not now,

cold. “It’s about knowing when to act and when

absolute silence, only the tension hanging in

between us.

it, his voice barely audible, though no softer reassurance, “I am doing

parted my lips to speak, but I closed it back as I closed

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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 as if