Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 218

Chapter 218 

PIPER 

The packhouse is a mess of changing paws and low murmurs, tension weighs upon my chest, heavy as any weight I’ve ever tried to heave and couldn’t shake. 

Aurora’s sharp command cuts through chaos, and for a moment, everyone is still. 

“Prepare for defense,” she says, firm and unyielding. “No one leaves the territory until we know what we’re dealing with.” 

I stood at the edge of the room, my claws pressed into the wood of a window frame. Outside, fog thickens, curling and twisting around itself almost as if alive. 

“This isn’t natural,” Dane says from behind me. The metallic ring of his blade emerging from their sheath immediately follows. 

I don’t need him to tell me that. The way the mist moves, it’s like it’s alive watching, waiting. 

The silence outside feels louder than the noise in the packhouse. The usual sounds of the forest leaves rustling, crickets chirping are gone, swallowed by the dense, unnatural fog. 

Aurora steps beside me, her face pale but determined. “We’ll get through this,” she says softly, her eyes scanning the horizon. 

Chapter 218 

2/2 

The Packhouse is dead silent in their shocked state. Eira is the first among them to show she is brave with a pale yet firm face, her voice low. 

“I need to tell you all something,” she says, her voice shaking. 

Aurora whips to her, eyes keen. “What?” 

Eira hesitates before speaking. “The Forgotten once offered me a place among them,” she says. “I refused. But now… now I think they’ll stop at nothing to reclaim what they believe is theirs.” 

Her words hang in the air, heavier with the sense of confession and an unseen gale across each one of us. 

Aurora rises; her face is a mask. “We’ll discuss later about that,” she says clear as crystal. “Right now, what awaits.”