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.

lingered in the air. combined

tracing the significant are of rocks around the depression. “This wasn’t random,” I

“Of course it wasn’t.”

feet and turned to see Trajan strode to a stop beside me, his

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sent you

“I came because I’m worried. He’s

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

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arms. “You

“And unless we are really careful, we will walk right into a

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

did not hang about,

but it did leave a note of sorts.” I nodded towards the tree beside him. Etched into its trunk was a rude drawing, a circle scribed by a jagged line with

to the

whispered. “But we better get

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

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I said, slapping the fabric down

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

toughest. It’s calculated. They are testing us, Dane.

to play nice?” His voice is getting louder; frustration sizzles

in closer. “Charging into their trap doesn’t make us

“We can’t afford to look

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

only the tension hanging in the

between us.

no softer reassurance, “I am doing this for us… for the

it back as I closed my eyes and I took a

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me and his eyes softened a bit, as if he was going. to say something, as if he was going to