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

Chapter 44 DANE I ... might ? I said.

The words sounded choked.

She nodded.

Then she took my hand and tuggedtoward the table .

Something gripped my heart when she put her hand in mine and ledto the table.

Something fierce and proud and stronger than Id ever felt in my life.

I had held them earlier, when I pulled them from the house.

But there hadnt been time.

It was life or death, and I was worried about Piper .

Now, there was nothing to distractfrom these two except Margie putting a donut and milk in front of me, too.

As if I was also four, and not the billionaire Alpha of a massive pack.

Margie, I said.

I wasnt sure if I was saying her nin warning, or in helplessness .

I didnt know what to do with two four year old children.

Shes right, the old cook said.

Have a donut.

I sat across from them, really taking them in for the first time.

There was no way to stop seeing it, now that I looked.

Auroras Chapter 44 wide eyes in the girls face.

My frown on the boys.

2/7 She wouldnt say it, and I was still waiting for the results to cback on the samples Piper brought me, but they were mine.

I knew more deeply than Id ever known anything in my life.

Youre ... Seraphina, I said to the girl Then I turned to her brother.

And youre Tristan.

Seraphina nodded.

Tristan whispered loudly, We arent supposed to tell him.

Then he turned narrowed eyes onagain.

What arent you supposed to tell? I asked.

I couldnt help the slight smile that crept over my face.

Instead of answering, he glowered.

You said mean words to our mommy.

At the mention of Aurora, my smile faded.

They were mine.

Shed kept them from me.

I should be enraged.

But I couldnt stop thinking about what shed said to me.

I would never subject a child to the treatment you gavefor the three years we we years we were married.

A Chapter 44 So many people thought I was... what had Aurora said? Honorable.

Except her.

With her, Id given into the darkness.

Allowed myself to be a monster to her, because I thought she was a monster, loo.

3/7 I shouldnt be surprised that she had kept them, and kept them.

from me.

If I thought someone might treat my children the way I treated her for those years, Id keep them away, too.

Still, looking at them, at how old they were, thinking of what Id missed, I couldnt stop the rage.

She was afraid Id take her children, was she? Maybe she should be.

After all, her pack had taken my parents.

Does your mother know where you are? I asked the sugar covered twins .

She thinks were napping, Tristan said.

She needs to rest.

A wry smile curved one corner of my mouth.

Con, I said to the kids.

Were going on a walk.

I think we have sthings to talk about.

***** AURORA A Chapter 44 4/7 Once Danes beta, Archer, showed us to our rooms, and the children were asleep, I paced.

I was back in Blue Ridge.

Granted, I wasnt stuck in the city penthouse like I had been before.

But I was back, nonetheless.

Except this time, I was a guest, and Dane was engaged to Evelyn ..

I couldnt tell how that madefeel.

Aside from that, I couldnt stop thinking about the shadows.

As the mansion had crumbled around us, theyd gone right for Piper, just like I watched them go for Connall.

I thought I was going to have to fight them as the house crumbled around us.

But when I got near them, the amulet at my throat glowed, and theyd turned transparent, like normal shadows , and just... fallen away.

Why? I wasnt the chosen.

The ceremony made that clear.

It had to be that the amulet had power all on its own.

There was no way I was giving it up, now.

Because one thing was clear: Danes family was being targeted.

First his grandfather, now his sister.

Was Dane next? Were the twins? I grabbed the journal off the shelf and carefully turned through its pages. The new one was carefully glued back in.

Two were Chapter 44 still missing.

What did they say? What cnext? 5/7 Because now that we knew who the key was Evelyn, apparently we needed to push forward on our search for the relic.

I needed to, especially.

Because the ceremony hadnt brought my wolf back, but ... might it? From what wed read, the thing we were searching for was a pure source of magic.

Enough that unlocking it would bring magic back to the world.

Wolves, witches, and the like wouldnt have to hide in fear of being hunted by humans anymore.

We could just exist.

Surely, something like that would be strong enough to bring back my wolf.

Then I could have everything.

Stay Luna heir.

If I was a leader of a pack in my own right, Dane couldnt take my children. Because theyd be my heirs, and he already had another one on the way.

I moved to put the journal back on my bedside table.

Id pulled it from the rubble, and it was battered and torn in several places.

As I did, the back cover shifted.

I opened it to see if it was damaged.

The paper pasted to it had peeled free .

Beneath it, several symbols glowed.

Chapter 44 The top ones caught my eye.

6/7 Chosen, one of the symbols said.

And then a line down, from the prison gates, the shadows will rise... Then there were others I couldnt read and then,... Her chosen Three. I sat down hard on my bed as more symbols becclear, my heart beating in my throat.

Wed been wrong.

Wed been wrong about everything.

***** I stumbled out of the house to find Dane.

I didnt care how angry he was, we had to talk.

We had to figure this out.

I found him outside.

He was playing with the twins.

Tristan.

Seraphina, I gasped . I thought you were asleep ! Were playing, Seraphina said.

She handeda crown of woven clover flowers.

For you, mommy! Look, he has a bracelet! Sure enough there was a bracelet of clover flowers on Danes wrist.

I met his eyes, saw his set jaw, and everything else was driven Chapter 44 from my mind. 7/7 He stood, then pulledaway, just far enough that the children.

couldnt hear.

There was a look in his eyes like Id never seen before.

sa Dane... No.

Youve had five years to speak, Aurora.

To tellwho they were .

I couldnt- His face twisted into a snarl.

No more excuses! Those children are mine.

Mine, no matter what you say.

You took them from me, and now Im taking them back.

They arent going anywhere.

Ever.

You, though? You can stay or go.

Its your choice.