Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 45

Chapter 45 

AURORA 

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1 bared my teeth. If I had a wolf, I would have transformed and torn him to pieces on the spot. “If you think I would ever leave. my children, you’re insane!” 

He pressed his lips into a thin line. “Then it looks like you’ll be here forever, too.” 

He was so confident; it shook me to my core. But I had to keep up a brave face. I couldn’t let him know how afraid I was that if he tried, he’d be able to do exactly what he threatened to. 

“We’ll see what the High Alpine Pack and the Council think 

about that.” 

His face was serious as he looked at me. “I have samples. I’ll test their DNA if I have to. Once it comes out that they’re mine, I’ll win. I’m an Alpha of an important pack. The Council will rule they belong with me as my heirs.” 

“I’m the Luna–heir of a pack just as important as yours, if not more,” I said, refusing to back down. “If they’re anyone’s heirs, they’re mine. Especially since you have another on the way.” 

Dane’s face blanched, but he held steady. “You’ll risk a situation where one twin stays with me, and you get the other. Is that what you want to do? Separate them?” 

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Part of me was so angry, I wanted to shove him. To scream and rage at him not to do this. The other part of me was shaking and terrified. That part wanted to fall on her knees and beg like I had 

before. 

Because no matter what happened, I couldn’t stay in Blue- Ridge forever. I had my own pack to worry about, my own responsibilities. As terrified as I was, my children were my line. in the sand. I would not allow him to cross it. 

“What I want to do? No, Dane. You would be the one doing it. You are the one threatening to take this to the Council. You don’t get to swoop in and try to destroy our lives, then tell me the consequences are my fault when I fight back!” 

The muscles in his jaw clenched, and I thought I caught a quickly smothered look of surprise on his face. I wasn’t sure if it was because I’d pointed out what he was doing and he truly hadn’t realized it, or because I had the gall to point it out at all. 

He leaned toward me. The children were still playing, and so far we’d kept the conversation too low for them to hear, whisper–yelling at each other beneath the sound of four–year–olds‘ shouts as the twins ran and played. “Something has to give, here, Aurora, and it’s not going to be me.” 

I gritted my teeth. My heart raced, but I kept my voice from shaking as I said, “You will have to kill me to keep me from fighting for them. You’ll have to lock me in chains to keep me from coming to steal them away in the night. I may have been a pushover for you when I was your wife, Dane Montague. Maybe 

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I would be still, for anything else. But when it comes to my children? I will burn all of Blue Ridge to ashes before I let you keep them from me.” 

Dane’s nostrils flared. He called out, “Hey, you two. Why don’t you go find Mrs. Jamison. Your mother and I need to have a talk.” 

The twins stopped playing and looked from Dane to me. They didn’t move to obey him. 

I smiled, but I was shaking inside. What did the Alpha want to do to me that he didn’t think the children should see? 

I tried to move toward them. Dane grabbed my wrist and squeezed. 

I didn’t struggle. Instead, I gave the children a tight smile. “It’s all right, you two. Go find Mrs. Jamison.” 

With one last, wary look at us, Tristan and Seraphina ran off. 

When they were gone, I yanked my hand forcibly from his. Or I tried. He held on and tugged me closer. “You owe me for this,” he said. “You owe me four years for each of their lives. It’s time I can never get back.”