Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 6

Chapter 6

AURORA

Trajan pulled me into the crowd, temporarily hiding us. I tore my eyes from Dane.

“Do we need to leave?” he growled low in my ear.

My heart was fluttering, but I forced my spine straight. “No. Let him come to me.”

There was a crowd of wolves around him, gorgeous and dangerous and glittering and whispering about what he’d done. He was on his feet, striding my way. But every wolf here wanted to speak to the powerful Alpha of Blue Ridge, and that slowed him down.

I pressed a hand to my chest. Would he kill me in front of all these people? Trajan wouldn’t make it easy.

Curse my grandmother for making this the only way I could become Luna.

“Oh, my goddess. Isn’t that Ann Reed?” someone whispered.

I’d caught their attention, now. One muttered, “Is she crawling back to Dane? During the gala?”

“Gold digger,” came another whisper.

Despite the way my heart was beating against my ribs, a smile quirked one corner of my mouth.

Once, that kind of accusation would’ve hurt. Now, the thought that I might need Dane for his money was ridiculous. I had more money than most of these wolves could dream of.

A young woman in a frilly white dress flounced up to me. In a grating voice, she said, “Is it true, wolfless?” The crowd gasped at her insult, but that just egged her on. “Dane threw your ass out all those years ago and now you’re coming crawling back to him?”

I raised an eyebrow, unaffected by her insult. Constantly aware that Dane was drawing closer. “Trajan?”

He leaned down near my ear and whispered, “Amy Miller, Ms. DeVere. A lesser member of the Hundred Lakes Pack.”

“Excuse me! I’ll show you lesser!” Amy Miller shrilled. “You’re a rogue!”

‘Aurora DeVere is no rogue.” Trajan growled. “Should I remove her, Luna–heir?”

The girl blanched.

“No.” I said. Waiting for Dane’s approach was like standing on a train track waiting for the train to hit me. “She’s not worth it.”

“How dare you?” the woman snapped, her face going red, standing out against her white dress, “I’m-!”

A warm body pressed against me from behind. Dane’s scent surrounded me. It was so familiar, yet so strange after five years, my knees felt weak.

His deep, authoritative growl sounded in my ear, and he gripped my wrist hard in one big, rough hand. “Ann Reed. If you came back here for a public execution, you’re about to get your desire.”

For a moment, I thought she would melt back against me. For a moment, I wanted her to. I wanted to wrap one hand around her throat and tangle the other in her hair and burn us both to the ground with a searing, claiming kiss.

Since I’d had her, no other woman was able to satisfy me.

She should have flinched. Grabbed my arm and whispered she was sorry and begged for my forgiveness.

That was what she would have done five years ago.

Instead, she turned her head gracefully and gave me a long, cool look.

“Alpha Montague. How nice to see you again.”

Chapter 6

Who knew that this evening, I’d have my hands back on Ann Reed? The one person who had ever escaped me. The woman who dominated my dreams.

Why did I want to wrap my hand around the stem and bleed?