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

Chapter 343

I turned to Dane as I shook my head, “No… Dane is nothing like you… I know him.”

“You…” Orion growled as he tried to lift his sword, he fell to his knees instead, in front of me.”

I lifted my weapon as I aimed for his neck, my hands trembling. Was I capable of delivering the finishing blow?

“Do it!” Dane said to me from beside. “End this now!”

My grip tightened, my mind racing. In his eyes, I saw defiance, but a flicker of something else too–pride, arrogance–which sent a shiver through me.

“You don’t deserve mercy,” I breathed.

“And yet you hesitate,” Orion replied, curling his lips into a grim. smile.

The only sounds that reached our ears were the remnants of Orion’s forces fleeing desperately into the forest in scattered

retreats.

My

steadily from the wound on his side, but he remained defiant, his piercing gaze meeting mine with

Luna,” he said, his

silence like a blade. “But victory is an

my muscles tense. “Your men are running, Orion. That doesn’t

and mocking. “Running? No, this is a tactical withdrawal. Unlike you, I understand the long game. And trust me,

side, his

outsmarted you today,

gaze flickered to Dane, a flicker of

But

I snapped, my voice hard. “This ends here,

side, his smile deepening. “You don’t have the stomach for this, do you? That’s your weakness, Luna. You hesitate, you negotiate, you beg. It’s why you’ll always lose

hold on my weapon tightened, though my feet seemed nailed

he was right, actually. I hesitated, unsure if ending him now

my voice steady despite the storm within me. “And tell your pack this is

got up as he ran into the darkness with his retreating wolves, their footsteps fading deep