Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate Chapter 45 Chapter 45 On the Run Selene's PO V By now they'll have found the apartment. By now Bastien will know about Lila. Will he know she's his? Will he recognize his own scent, like a bonfire in the nighttime forest, blended with my own through the apart ment? Will Dr ake be safe at my mate's mer cy now the truth is out? I glance at my daughter in the rearview mirror, counting down the minutes until we finally reach the safehouse. She's cozy in her carseat , playing with the cloth dolll gifted her at the equinox, babbling away happily in her own special language. W e 'v e been d riving for more than two hours, and I'm beginning to worry that I haven't heard from Drake yet. Surely he should have been in contact b y now? Surely he should have checked in to m ake sure we made it to the meet up with his driver and were on the road. "Mommy," Lila asks, catching me watching her. "Where we going? " We 're going on an adventure." I answer, pushi ng away my worries and adopting a light-hearted tone. Her tiny n ose crinkles. "What's an venture?" "It's when y ou go somewhere new, and have ex citing and u nexpected experien ces." I explain, and do things you 'v e never done before, and..•* Ru n awa y fr om ex-husba nds and psychopathic dictators, my unhelpful thoughts suggest. "Lots of things." Lila hums thoughtfully, staring out the window as the landscape whizzes by. "Where's Rake?" She wonders, using her baby name for the Eros Alpha. "Uncle Drake is with…" What do you call the father of a three-year-old who doesn't know he exists ? "A friend of ours." She perks up automati cally. "Playing?" "Yes." I latch onto the description. "They're playing.. . keep away. " "With a toy?" Lila su ggests eagerly. With great effort, I manage to keep the bitter sarcasm out of my voice, "With something our friend treated like a toy." I can't keep the smile from m y face as I watch her intent express ion. "And with something else, much more precious." "I wanna play!" Lila exclaims, buying my flimsy falsehoods as only a child could.. "We'll play all you want when we get to…" Our fully furnished padded cell, inten ded to keep out s erial killers and mad ax men, "the castle." " We' re going to a castle?!" She squeals. Whoops. "Well not a real one." I hedge, not wanting to get her hopes up. "Not like the ones from y our books, but it's very high up and very safe, just like a castle. They were built so that no one who wasn't invited in, could ever enter. We're going someplace just like that." At least, I hope we are. I can't be certain how secure the home is until we arrive, and I have a bad feeling that if Bastien tracks us here, no security measures in existence will keep him out. Which is why we should be with him, instead of alone in the middle of nowhere. Would you please give it a rest, Luna? I beg. I know you're mad at me, I know you want Bastien, but you weren' t there when we were together. You don't know what it was like, and Lila is more important. Lila is the most important thing in the world. Luna agrees. I'm already waiting for the other shoe to drop. Luna has been impossible from the moment she caught sight of our mate, and I'm certain her agreement is a misdirect. She doesn't disappoint. A nd her father is the only other person who could understand that the way we do. At best her father would use her to trap us, at worst he would claim her for himself and take her away from us. Is that what you Waansowe energy wwdamental part of ou bene i never shifted when I reached physical maturity, blocked by the poison I ne ve r came into m y power out of her that part of my magle Now I'm grown and inally have an intact soul, but some wounds are too deep to heal I never hinter te wolf hin, Ani probably never will most of the Ilmei'm so happy to be whole again that I don't feel a ny Is it possible i'm a father? Woulinti have smelled the change in her, even if the pregnancy was in its early stages ? toki you when you arrived that protect the privacy of my pack members," Drake bites back. "I produced Selene s o y ou could see she was not being held under duress, but that is the extent of my responsibility" "Hy a husband she does not wanti" Drake bellows, "You need to accept it, Bastien. You had your chance, and you threw it awa y You mistreated and neglected her, you chose a cruel, vapid socialite over the woman created for you by the Goddess herself You have only yourself to blame." "You speak or what you do not know!" I hieg, "I never looked at another woman, from the first moment I saw Golene I loved her with every Aber of my being" i profess, my throat burning, "But she lost her wolf and couldn't feel our bond soll, i loved her so much I was willing to let her go. I didn't do it in time, but I was going to." "Oh and I suppose that now she has her wolf back, you think she's just going to fall into your armo," Drake scoffs in disgust "This isn't about us!" i thunder "This is about the fact that someone in your pack tried to report a woman you're supposed to be protecting and her daughter to a man who would kill her." Alden and Donavon have ceased trying to hold me back instead standing by to watch and mop up the blood when it inevitably spille. "You've falled them both. You are not oquipped to protect them, and it's time you sacrifice your pride and let someone who is capable take over!" "I've heard enough. "Drake nods to his guards, "You might be the Alpha in Elysium, but I am Alpha here, and no one speaks to me this way, no matter their excuse "I can see the sentries approaching in my periphery, bracing myself for an imminent attack, "Take Me Durand into oustody, let's see if some time in a cell doesn't cool his temper" "You're going to regret thig, "I caution Cavanaugh as his men move in. "I'm going to find Selene, one way or another I'm telling #Chapter 45 On the Run "Famous last words." Drake dr awls, giving the s i gnal to attack. W olves fly at me from all directions , determined to restrain me and take me into custody. Unfortunately for them. I'm not just an Alpha who's lost his temper. I'm an Alpha who's been separated from his mate, and they now stand between us. 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