Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 204

Chapter 204 

AURORA 

His jaw clenched, and for a moment, I saw the flash of pain in his face… not from his injuries, but from the helplessness of watching me fight alone. 

And with this, the Nameless presses his advantage, attacking relentlessly to shower his blows upon me. 

With every strike, the lair ripples with the shockwave that forces the pack to huddle for protection behind crumbling walls. 

“She’s losing,” someone says, his voice trembling. 

“No,” Piper snaps, her tone razor–sharp. “Aurora’s stronger than any of us. She’ll find a way.” 

But even as she says it, doubt flickers in her eyes. 

I call on the Moon Goddess’s power once more, the pendant at my chest ablaze with light. The energy courses through me, wild and untrammeled, filling every corner of my being. 

The strain is beyond endurance. My vision blurs, my limbs. shake, and my heart feels as if it will burst. The Goddess’s whispering in my mind is barely audible but relentless. 

You cannot wield this power without cost. 

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“I don’t care,” I whisper, my voice hoarse. “I have to end this.” 

The Nameless roars, his body expanding, the shadows around him darkening, churning wildly. His power is huge–smothering. I know this is it–his last stand. 

“You will fall,” he growls. Words that boom like thunder in my ears. “You and everything you love will be consumed.” 

“Not today,” I return, putting every last ounce of energy I have into one final attack. 

Light exploded from me in a blinding wave, merging with the shadows of the Nameless in that cacophony of clashing powers that had shaken the earth to its foundations. Everyone went. flying across the ground–the lair crumbled with us. 

The Nameless was screaming, dissolving as a form from under the flood of light, and for just one moment I felt a fickle surge of triumph… until the backlash did indeed hit me. 

Energy surges back toward me, sheer force overwhelming… The scream is ripped from my lungs, a pendant shattered against my chest as the last of the Moon Goddess‘ power leaves me. 

Pain racks my body, but it’s the emptiness that really terrifies me. The connection to the pack, the bond that has always been my anchor, is gone. 

The lair goes silent; the Nameless is defeated. But the aftermath is immediate, and it’s brutal. 

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“Aurora!” Dane’s voice filters through, and then he’s there, hist hands on my shoulders, his eyes wild. 

“I’m. I’m okay,” I say, even though the words seem empty. 

He shakes his head, the look in his eyes incredulous. “You’re not. Your eyes… Aurora, the bond is gone.” 

I nod, the reality sinking in. “The power… it’s gone too. I’m mortal now.” 

The weight of those words settles between us, a chasm that feels impossible to bridge. 

The pack closes in, the faces marked by both relief and grief. 

For though the Nameless may be defeated, the injuries and destruction in his wake certainly are not. Piper approaches, her face twisted in anger and sadness. 

“You did it,” she says, her voice full of emotion. “But at what cost?” “I don’t know,” I say, my voice barely above a whisper. 

We left the lair as the battle took its toll upon us all, but what the pack could have become died the night before in more ways than just battle damage. 

Holden can never be replaced, leaving a large void, same as Trajan, inside the bond the pack shares with one another, a fracture to my relationship within the pack; I was lost. 

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Still, I know looking upon Dane and Piper, along with the others that we would persevere. 

“We’ll rebuild,” Dane says. His voice is steady. 

I nod, taking hold of the spark in his words to comfort me. “Together.” 

Morning sun paints came, catching up on edges of broken stone and charred wood at Broken Ridge. 

This once vibrant pack house now lay weak in wrecked splendor, reminding me with immediate effect of how close to death we’d fought a pitched battle. 

I sit beside the old garden, the smell of damp soil combined with the subtle scent of ash in my nostrils. 

My fingers trace through the dirt, finding its coolness, but the feeling of loss weighs on my chest. 

Dane is near. I can sense it as surely as I feel the warmth of the sun upon my skin, but he keeps his distance. 

We haven’t spoken since the Nameless fell. There’s too much unsaid between us, too many wounds yet to heal. 

A voice cuts through the silence – smooth and unfamiliar. 

“You’ve been busy, haven’t you, Luna?” 

I spin around, my heart racing. 

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At the edge of the garden, a tall, silver–haired werewolf is leaning casually against a tree. 

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His eyes, two gleaming disks of gold, seem to pierce through met with an intensity that runs a shiver down my spine. 

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“Who are you?” I demand, rising to my feet with muscles coiled. 

He steps forward; his movements fluid, unhurried, as though he has all the time in the world. 

“Elias,” he says, the rich melodious sweetness of his voice like a whispered promise. 

“A name which you won’t find in your histories, but one that belongs here nonetheless.” 

I narrow my eyes, peering into his face for even the slightest trace of familiarity. “I don’t know you.” 

His lips curve into a faint, knowing smile. 

“No, but you know what I am. A ghost of the past, you might say. One of the original members of this pack, back when Broken Ridge was little more than a dream.” 

My breath catches. “That’s impossible.” 

“Is it?” he echoes, unrelenting in his stare. “You have seen impossible things, have you? The Nameless. The Moon Goddess. You think that with them it stops?.” 

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I step into the clearing, and his frame becomes a block, arresting my escalating distress. His gaze searches for and captures Elias. 

“Who is he?” Dane asks, an edge to his voice. 

“Elias,” I reply, much softer. 

“Convenient,” Dane says, his eyes never leaving the stranger. 

“You show up right after we defeat the Nameless, claiming to be from some forgotten past. Why are you here?” 

Elias chuckles a soft, malignant sound.