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

Chapter 278

LILA

Aurora spoke softly, her words hanging in the silence, in the balance within the pack, seeming to resound within her mind:

“Every choice ripples through into others. Be sure yours aren’t the one drowning someone you care for.”

I glared hard at the paper clutched in my shaking hands on it, Calla’s uneven words across the page read clear as day, the demand, “Sow doubt. Make them question him, or I’ll make sure your past comes to light.”

I felt my heart twist, words cutting deeper into me like a knife as I reread the message over and over.

The face of Rowan flashed into my mind, the honesty in his smile, the brightness of his eyes when he spoke about earning again the trust of his pack.

Why does he have to be so good? Why did I have to care?

I lay under a mountain of blankets, smothering, unable to get out. The murmurs of the pack outside my room filtered into my ears, a toneless reminder of how much it would cost me if Calla followed through with her threats.

“What am I doing?” I whispered, pacing. “I should have just

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walked away when she first called.

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But Calla knew too much. She was the key to unraveling it all the life I’d tried to build here.

It was some kind of treachery, a betrayal, to that one fragile. piece inside me that still hoped I could be better when Rowan. betrayed me.

I found him at the training grounds, his form economical as he showed techniques to a circle of younger wolves, voice steady, firm with corrections, yet the patience distinct beneath that weight of whispered concern surrounding his name.

“You’re gripping too tight,” he told one young werewolf, adjusting the werewolf’s hands on the practice sword. “Loosen up. If your hands are stiff, your strikes won’t flow.”

as Rowan stepped back. “Better. Now

stepped hesitantly at the edge of the open circle, less certain that this was a brilliant notion being nearer to him but then he looked at me with a soft, sudden

off his forehead. “What’re you doing out

my words my readied

wanted to, um check on you,” I heard myself saying weakly, managing a smile I

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sounded less strained. You’ve been

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nodded toward the sparring wolves. “They keep me on my

on a stump beside him, fidgeting my hands nervously in my lap. “You seem different,”

it seemed. “I’m trying,” he said. “Each day feels like a chance to prove

be.“.

shrunk my chest as

feeling like

his brow furrowed. “All the time. But

I echoed, barely

sat there a bit longer, the soft sparring sounds of the wolves. drifting across the field. It was some time

the silence.

been around a lot more lately,” he said softly, still questioning. “Not that I mind. It’s

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laughed at the soft, unexpected, even to

turned fully to me, his face unreadable. “And that

without thinking, then hastened to add, “About

with a small smile. “Careful, Lila. You’re starting. to sound like

I meant it to, and I made myself turn

and I sat at the edge of the training grounds, younger wolves dispersing this way and

over us.

think about leaving?” he asked abruptly,