Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 20

Chapter 20 

DANE 

Everything in me went numb. Time stopped. I stared. 

The children froze, as well. They looked at me curiously. 

I thought I heard Aurora’s breath catch for an instant. Then she was between me and the children. She took them each by the hand and knelt in front of them. 

“Uncle Trajan is hurt, but he’ll be all right. It’s not a good time to see him right now, but maybe in a few hours when his wolf has had time to heal him, okay?” 

The boy nodded. The girl peered around her mother’s shoulder at me curiously. 

“Aurora,” I said through a clenched jaw. “Whose children are those?” 

Just then, a man came barreling down the hall. He scooped the children into his arms and shot Aurora an apologetic grin. “Sorry. They got away from me.” 

“Dane,” Aurora said quickly, gesturing at the newcomer. “You remember my cousin, Evander.” 

That was right. When I heard a child cry the other day she said. 

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her cousin had just arrived from Europe. It could explain the girl’s dark hair and eyes, but not why she looked so much like Aurora. And the boy…. 

“These are your children?” I asked. He didn’t look more than twenty–three, and the kids had to be at least four. “Is their mother visiting, as well?” 

“No,” Aurora said. “She’s not. Evander?” 

“Time for a snack in the kitchen,” he said. 

Then he took the children and disappeared, and I was left wondering why it felt so wrong for another man to carry them 

away. 

I glanced at Trajan, who slept in the bed. I pitched my voice low. Even injured, a man like that would make trouble for me if he thought I was threatening the woman he saw as his Luna. 

“You’re lying to me about those children.” 

She wore the maddeningly cool, polite expression she always wore now. It was like a mask she used to hide her old face. “Their mother isn’t visiting,” she said. 

I stepped closer, until she had to tilt her head back to look at me, and growled, “Ann, or Aurora, or whoever you are. Are those my children?” 

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Dane backed me against a wall. I thought he would pin me there. That’s what he would have done years ago–loomed over me, trapped me, threatened me. 

Now, even though he was close and his voice was low, he didn’t loom or threaten. He asked. 

But that didn’t mean he wouldn’t kill me in an instant if I gave an answer he didn’t like. 

“No,” I said. I kept my voice and eye contact as steady as I could. Then I leaned forward and pushed against his chest with my fingertips. “And if you keep looking at them that way, you’re going to scare them.” 

Dane frowned and backed away. 

I matched his expression. I could tell he didn’t entirely believe me. Why wasn’t he threatening to kill me? 

A knock came on the door. Dane tore his eyes from mine and opened it. Celia stood there. I remembered her. She was middle aged and not as unkind to me when I was part of Blue Ridge as many of the other wolves. 

Dane gestured to the bed without speaking, and I gathered that he and Celia were speaking in their heads through the pack bond. Celia nodded, then shot me a small smile and went to tend Trajan. 

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“I’d like to see the book again,” Dane said. 

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