Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 53

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AURORA 

My heart felt like it was drying out, crumbling to pieces in my chest. 

Here I was, trying to prove to Dane I was a victim…but I had said those things. Done those things. As the shadows performed. them, it was like a curtain being pulled back on my memory. 

I’d been that hateful girl, brainwashed into thinking Dane had to be taken down. His bloodline were killers. Rogues. They had no right to the things they’d taken from us. 

I wanted him dead. His bloodline would end with me. 

“No!” I screamed. 

Even though the shadows had been performing their play of the past as if I wasn’t there, the one that looked like Esther Reed slowly turned to me. She had a wide, terrifying smile on her face. 

“Yes, Ann,” she hissed. “Just like we planned.” 

“No!” I screamed. “NO!” 

In a rush of despair and terror, I rushed at the shadows. 

I had to erase them. I had to make this not true. 

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I sprinted forward, my arms swinging. Some old part of me tried. to make my claws grow, my fangs. I tried to call on my wolf. 

But of course, she wasn’t there. 

Still, I ran at the shadows, swinging my arms. 

When my fist impacted Esther’s smug smile, she burst into sharp needles of darkness. They exploded into me, cach one like a razor of ice, thousands of them biting into,me, slicing me open. 

“NO!” 

“Aurora!” 

The call was faint, but somehow close. Warm hands were on me, 

shaking me. 

For one heartbeat, the room was filled with the horrible shadows. 

The next, it was dark and cold, and Dane was there. He held me. Shook me. Told me to wake up. 

Then back to the shadows as they laughed. As Esther’s voice echoed, No matter how long it takes…you will destroy him. 

“Aurora! Wake the fuck up!” 

Alpha magic wrapped around me, 

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the 

dream and back into reality. The strength went out of my 

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muscles, and I collapsed, sobs tearing from my chest. 

But I didn’t hit the floor. Dane held me against his chest, his strong arms around me. “One second you were fine. The next you fell to the ground and started shaking. What happened?” 

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I tried to push away from him, but he held onto me. He pulled me closer, so my face was buried against him. Then he wrapped both arms around me like a lover might for comfort. 

“It’s all right,” he said. “Shh.” 

But that made me weep harder. 

Had I finally convinced Dane Montague that I had always been loyal to him, only to find out in the same moment that I’d been lying the whole time? 

That I really was a product of the Reeds? Just as desperate and evil as they always insisted I was? 

Goddess. I had sworn to destroy him. I’d sworn on something called the Nameless. The title struck…something in my memory. But when I reached for it, it faded. 

I didn’t even know what it was, let alone why I might be swearing on it. 

No matter how long it takes… 

That evil was still inside me. Now that I had that memory back, I 

could feel it. Festering and blackened and rotten. 

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Dane put his hands on either side of my face and forced me to look at him. “Tell me what happened.”