Blood And Silver:Rise of the Alpha’s Rejected Mate
Chapter 300

“Enough! We’ve been through this before, and I am tired of going in circles like children. If we can’t come to a decision, then. I will make the decision myself. Is that understood?”

The room fell silent. The tension in the air was thick. Dane’s glare burned into me, but I refused to back down.

“We will do this next time… we all need to rest and calm our minds,” I breathed softly.

Dane was the first to strode off, and after some time, the council

room was empty.

All I heard from Dane was different crazy words, unforgiving; gaze set in defiance. Day by day, he became more and more. unreachable; what is to happen with my pack next, I do not know.

I sighed and stepped out, heading to my room. Perhaps a cool bath will calm the voices in my head.

The murmur of voices down the hall drew my attention. It halted, pressing my back against the cool stone wall to listen.

“You really think Dane’s plan will work?” a voice whispered, low and cautious.

“He’s confident,” said another. “He thinks that’s the only way to prove strength. They’ll never even see it coming.”

“He’s been planning it for weeks,” said the other, “a single ambush. It’s a risk, but if he manages to pull it off, then he’ll have proved Aurora’s been holding him back too much.”

I strained harder, trying to make out more. “But what if it gets denied? The way Aurora has been, he’d surely land with a slap if she knew this behind his back.”

There was a pause, and the silence hung in the air with tension.

“She doesn’t need to know,” the first voice said decisively. “Dane’s doing what needs to be done. If we keep second guessing him, we’ll never move forward.”

My breath had caught. Dane was going to ambush alone? Without the sanction of the council?

At once, my chest tightened with disbelief and anger. Hadn’t we just been through this? The very idea of acting without unity had been the central issue of our meeting, and now this?

I inched closer, rounding the bend just in time to see the two wolves conclude their conversation and start walking away. Their words echoed in my brain, each syllable a painful thrust of betrayal.

“Dane’s doing what needs to be done.”

No, I thought my hands were fisting automatically at my hips. He’s doing what he thinks needs doing, and that’s a totally different thing, altogether.

Now, the halls were empty but for my quickening footsteps. I made my way straight for our quarters, a stew of anger just below the surface..

It was time for Dane and me to have it out. And this time, I wasn’t leaving until I’d been heard.

If he seriously planned to sneak around behind our pack’s backs, then he was risking more than his life, he was risking ours.