Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 145

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AURORA 

I fout him, my mind pulling back from everything this creature was, everything it wanted from me. 

But he leaned over me, grinned, and inhaled. Black smoke rose from my chest and curled into a ball of black obsidian that hung between us, like a dark mirror image of the pearl pendant that had channeled my power as a healer. 

I felt my heart start to turn cold as one by one, my memories of the good things in my life began to wink out like dying stars. 

Evander’s easy smile. 

Trajan’s steadying voice. 

Dane kissing me. Dane… 

My children laughing as I read them a story. 

It was all slipping away. 

“No!” I cried. 

I tried to fight him, to hold on, but it was like water slipping through my fingers. My heart screamed for what I was losing and started to freeze. 

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At the same time, memories of my life as a young woman in Broken Forest were revealed. The Reeds twisting my mind as a little girl, corrupting me, forcing me to believe that the only way I could be worthy and loved was to embrace loss, pain, and the 

dark. 

Tha. s what the Nameless wanted from me. To be his beacon of pain. To spread it across the world. 

I had to fight. Desperately, I flung my mind, and my heart out, searching for an anchor. Something to hold just a small part of 

1. me. 

There was no moon tonight, only darkness outside the windows. And yet…I suddenly felt the smallest touch of…something…and a voice whispered, Even in the darkest times, I am here. 

I grasped that power. It was all I needed. 

Dane…! 

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DANE 

I ran in my big, dark gray wolf body at the head of my newly enlarged pack back to the pack house. The nighttime forest whipped by as we surged downhill through trees and undergrowth. 

Piper needed me. Holden was there. I’d lost Aurora already, I 

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couldn’t lose my sister, too. I had to get to her in time. I had to 

Dane…! 

My paw caught on a root at the edge of an outcropping. I stumbled and my head slammed into a stone. Darkness washed 

Ove 

AURORA 

I blinked, and suddenly I wasn’t in the terrible, cold palace with the Nameless. I was on a hill, overlooking a wide lake in the middle of thick woods. The lake and sky were blue with coming evening. The trees were golden with autumn leaves. 

“Aurora?” 

I spun. It was Dane. He ran down the hill toward me and caught me in his arms. 

I pressed my face against his chest. I couldn’t believe it, but he looked and felt and smelled so real, so good. Like himself. “Dane…you’re alive?” 

His face was grim, but he lifted the pearl pendant I had dropped near his hand. “Thanks to you. Where are we?” 

“I don’t know, I-” My gaze caught on the sky just above the trees, where a round, white moon hung. It was much larger than it was supposed to be. 

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But that didn’t make any sense. It was the new moon right now. The sky was supposed to be completely dark. 

I cannot give you much, a feminine voice whispered. I can’t stop what’s happening to you–only you can. But I can give you one. moment to cling to. One moment of hope. One stolen second. of ti. between time. Don’t waste it. The years ahead will be dark… 

The voice faded. I met Dane’s dark eyes. “That was the goddess.” 

“What did she mean, ‘years‘?” he growled. He still held me in his arms, and they tightened around me. “We’ve been through so fucking much. We’re the goddess’s chosen, aren’t we? We tried to do what she wanted and free the relic but found shadows instead. Why should we have to deal with more?”