Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 52

Chapter 52 

AURORA 

“Do you believe me now?” I watched Dane take in the bleak reality of my childhood bedroom. Bare and cold, it made the parts of me that remembered the past want to break down. Run away. But I couldn’t do that now. I had a mission. 

And I would never allow myself to be weak in front of Dane. 

His jaw set. “Even the Reeds couldn’t raise a child like this.” 

I walked over to him and faced him. “Walk over to the bed. There’s a loose brick on the wall three up and two over from where the bed touches the corner. If you move it, you’ll find a little space where I kept my treasures.” 

I tried to remember what I’d had stored back there on the night they poisoned me, killed my wolf, and set me up as bait for Dane. “A few quartz crystals, an acorn, maybe a few coins will be in there.” 

Dane gave me an unreadable look, then stalked past me to the corner I’d indicated. There was a grinding sound as he pulled out the brick. 

I watched him, staying far back in the door so he couldn’t accuse me of planting anything anywhere. 

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His back went rigid. When he pulled away, he hand a few small things in his hand. He opened his palm. 

Three quartz crystals, an acorn, and a few coins sat in his hand. 

“Proof enough?” I asked cooly. 

Dane closed his fist around the treasures and squeezed. He shoved them into his pocket and whispered, “Fuck.” 

I don’t know how I was expecting him to react, but that surprised me. He sounded…regretful? 

Even if I proved to him I’d never been a liar, I didn’t actually expect him to ever feel bad about what he’d done, how he’d treated me. That just wasn’t Dane. 

But when he looked up at me, there was definitely regret on his face. “Aurora-” 

There was a rumble, almost too low to hear. Clouds of dust shook loose from the ceiling and drifted toward the ground. 

Dane’s brows drew together, and he strode toward me. “We 

need to leave.” 

I turned to do exactly as he’d said and walk out the door. 

But when I tried…I couldn’t. The door was closed. Locked. 

The fear I’d been fighting off since we got into this house started to rise up in a drowning tide. 

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This was the place I’d been trapped. 

This was the place I’d been abused. 

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This was the place where I’d been convinced, more than once, I would never see the sun again. 

“Danc!” But when I spun back to him, he was g 

gone. 

The room was no longer empty, either. No longer dusty and disused. There were blankets on the cot. A few books were 

stacked on the rickety table. The tiny dresser in one corner wasn’t broken, but whole, with a lamp on top. It was the only light in the room. 

It looked exactly like it had the last time I’d been here. 

The night they gave me to Dane. 

“No!” 

I turned toward the door and beat my fists against it. But it was 

solid. Locked. 

Then shadows started seeping through it. I stumbled back. All of my growth and strength in the last few years were forgotten as the shadow formed into Esther and Waylon Reed.