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

Chapter 100 AURORA I followed his gaze and looked at the scar on my chest .

It had looked like a circle with faded black veins branching off of it .

Now , some of those veins had turned black again , but they were interspersed with patches of silver .

Like whatever was in me had tried to reawaken and was still alive in me .

But it was blocked , somehow .

The dream .

The iridescent light .

I looked at my palm .

Had that second voice Id heard somehow healed me just as the shadows were about to take me back ? I touched the scar .

The blackened parts of it burned to the touch , but it was all contained , somehow , by the patches of silver .

I swallowed .

I was trembling all over again .

Dane touched the scar , as well .

I wanted to stop him , remembering how the evil light had reached for him .

But when I lifted my hand , he met my gaze , determined .

Were in this together .

Blue Ridge and High Alpine , and you and me .

I nodded and dropped my hand so he could press his fingers Chapter 100 lightly against the spot .

When nothing happened , I sighed in relief .

2/5 Well figure this out , he said , fingers still gently pressed to the spot just below my collarbone where the scar sat .

But first , we have to find our children .

It was barely dawn when Id woken from the dream , but Dane and I both knew there wouldnt be any more sleep for us .

We got up , dressed , and joined the search .

Dane tried to get me to eat , but I couldnt .

So much was happening , and it all went back to the search for the relic .

Part of me begged to give it up .

If wed never gotten into this in the first place , Tristan and Seraphina would be safe .

But another , deeper part of me knew , whether or not I had chosen to come back to Georgia on my own or not , I couldnt escape this .

Those dreamlike memories of my life in Broken Forest proved that .

Dane and I had gone into this thinking we were in control , but we were just pawns on a gameboard that forces beyond us had been moving since we were born .

Maybe even before then .

Chapter 100 3/5 It was time to stop reacting .

We had to figure all of this out , Only then could we take control of the game and win .

Ann Reed might have cried about how hard it all was .

She might have given up .

But Aurora DeVere would not .

Aurora didnt lose .

With my children at stake , and Dane who my feelings were growing dangerously strong for once again , I couldnt afford to lose .

Trajan had been heading up the search , and Dane and I took his report .

Theyd found the childrens scent and Mrs.

Jamisons .

It led them to the western edge of pack territory , to a rest stop on a busy highway .

Then it disappeared .

Thats not the direction we thought theyd go , I said .

After all , Broken Forest was cast of us , not west .

But it could be that whoever took them is trying to throw us off .

In a car it would be easy enough to double back .

Trajan nodded .

What concerns me is that there was no other scent .

Only Mary Jamison and the children .

Dane frowned .

The nanny was new , wasnt she ? Anger surged in me .

No.

She was my nanny .

She raised me for as long as I could remember until the Reeds dismissed her when Chapter 100 4/5 I was … I shook my head .

The exact memories were fuzzy .

I only knew shed been there when I was a child and then wasnt there anymore when I was a teen .

Your memories arent always clear , Dane said carefully .

Im not questioning you , but I am asking , are you certain this is the same woman ? Yes , I said .

Then are you certain she wouldnt have betrayed you ? Dane asked .

This time , his voice was gentle .

I bared my teeth .

Are you certain your grandfather wouldnt have betrayed you ? I shot back .

He raised you the same way she raised me .

Yes , but he wasnt an employee of someone we knew for certain was evil .

Whoever Mrs.

Jamison is , she willingly worked for the Reeds .

She watched what they put you through all those years .

Did she ever once try to save you ? Ever try to get you away ? Ever stop a punishment from happening ? I … I froze .

I hadnt thought about it that way .

My feelings for her were still the feelings of a child .

She hadnt ever hurt me like all the other adults ; therefore she had been kind and good .

As a child , it had never occurred to me that she should have Chapter 100 5/5 tried to stop it .

That there was any option for either of us that might include her taking me away .

The realization made it feel like the world was falling out from under me .

No , I whispered .

She didnt .