Blood And Silver Rise of the Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 4

DANE

“Go get her!” I snarled. “Call the airport and stop that flight!”

As a wolf, money didn’t do much for me. But in the human world, being a billionaire made me unstoppable.

Archer nodded and shouted to my pack warriors.

I went up to my room in the pack house. It was decorated to look as much like the outdoors as possible, with stone and wood and natural colors.

When Ann was here, she stayed in this room, too. I never slept in the bed when she was here.

As soon as I walked in, I heard someone in the closet.

Ann. It had to be. Archer must have been mistaken about her at the airport.

I strode toward the door, already growling, and kicked it open.

A woman in a white dress screamed.

Ann’s dress…but this woman wasn’t Ann. Too tall for the dress, which should have hit at mid-thigh but on this woman barely covered her ass.

I bared my teeth. “What the hell are you doing here?”

Evelyn Barclay stared at me.

Her face was softly rounded, with huge blue eyes, cupid’s bow lips, and a pointed chin. That plus her wavy blond hair and curves were the reasons the media like to call her “the second coming of Marilyn Monroe.”

Evelyn was also a wolf—connected by marriage to the Hundred Lakes Pack.

My grandfather had pulled Blue Ridge out of obscurity and into wealth with his own sweat and blood. We might be the richest pack in Atlanta, but we were far from the oldest. And in our world, old blood mattered.

The Hundred Lakes Alpha and Luna sat on the Council. I shouldn’t offend Evelyn. But in that moment, I didn’t care.

“Get out of her clothes,” I snapped. “How did you even get in here? You need to leave.”

My grandfather would never let me hear the end of it if he found out Evelyn was on Blue Ridge land.

Evelyn blushed “I…just wanted to see you. I came in to wait and had some wine and spilled it on my dress. I bet Ann won’t mind.” She smiled sweetly.

Ann would absolutely mind.

“Take it off,” I snarled. “And leave. Something happened…”

Evelyn’s eyes filled with tears, and she rubbed the inside of her left elbow. My gaze fell on the crescent moon-shaped birthmark there.

I ran my hands through my hair, torn between this and knowing I needed to hurry to get to Ann.

But aside from Evelyn’s powerful family, I didn’t want to hurt her…she’d saved my life.

When we were kids, we’d both been kidnapped by some lackeys of the Reeds. I’d mostly blocked it out, But I remembered the little girl with a crescent birth mark on her arm who was a prisoner with me. She distracted the kidnappers while I escaped.

I’d promised to go back for her. But when I convinced my grandfather to take the pack warriors there, there was no sign of the Reeds’ wolves or the little girl.

Then, two years ago, a singer wandered into one of my clubs out of the rain, desperate for work. She was decent, but I wasn’t going to hire her.

Then I saw the birthmark, and everything changed.

I owed Evelyn everything. I made sure that semi-talented singer became one of the biggest stars in the country, because that’s what she wanted. Thanks to her ties with the Council, they tolerated a wolf living such a public life.