Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Day of the Ceremony

Belene’s POV

My fingers anxiously trace the flowers embroidered into the bodice of my wedding gown it’s a delicate white contera weightless and ethereal I look more like a wood nymph than a bride

I remember the day we chose it, Bastien and ill was the first dress we found that did not completely overpower my w frame three years ago. We tried countless others first, but the moment i stepped into the gossamer fabric i wen tace said it all

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This is the way of rejection ceremonies Marriages end as they begin

We will wear the same clothes, meet at the same moonlit altar with friends and family looking on, we’ll even play the samnem Vet instead of vows to love and keep each other we will vow to part. Instead of exchanging rings we’rarmore then, and instead of shifting to run together beneath the stars, we’ll divide, forging new paths in directions of our own choosing

Of course, Bastien and I never ran together in the first place. We walked through the forest hand in hand, a sweet concession for the loss of my wolf

Tonight I expect he will shift, and I have a fairly good idea where he’ll run rather to whom he’ll run.

I’ve replayed my conversation with Arabella over and over in my head. At first I thought I must have misheard her, after all Bacon himself told me Arabella was his mate. Yet the more I ponder our conversation the clearer it becomes Bastien is my mate, or the would have been if I still had Luna, It explains why I always felt connected to him, why he always made me feel safe

Those horrible women at Gabriel’s birthday were right, I am too broken to be anything but a burden. My one chance to be whole might have been finding the man the goddess chose for me, but fate had other plans.

My mate doesn’t want me without my wolf,

Who could?

trying to tell myself that one day I might find a wolf

The only person I want is Bastien, and no matter what I do, or how long I live – he will never want

Bastien’s POV

about losing Selene, now those horrible dreams are becoming a reality. In

not any happier about it than he is, but I have to do this for Selene. This is what being an Alpha is all about, I rernind my stubborn wolf, taking care of others, putting their needs

He replies grumpily. Do you

been able to eat or sleep for days. I haven’t been able to think about anything other than the fact that I will never get to hold my mate in my arms again. Not only that, I’m going to have to watch her build a life with another wolf – an idea that not only makes me feel completely

that are truly important like Blaise’s hunt for Volana wolves

bought it I told myself it was merely a parting gift

#Chapter 21 Rejection Day

feeling very vocal now that he’s finally speaking to me again. You think a pretty trinket

nothing I can do or say that will change things now. It’s too late.

I accept it. I have to let

toss the gift

Gabriel’s POV

suits. If I had it my way, I’d remain in my wolf form day and night, but drafting laws and signing treaties is difficult without thumbs.

not the path I hoped my son would walk. His marriage to Selene started on difficult footing, but the struggle was never between them. For all the horror

her own shadow, but she was never afraid of her mate, and caring for Selene had softened Bastien in so

the end

the document on my desk, eyeing the fluttering fabric curiously.

wolf, my mind racing to understand how anyone could have gotten past my heightened senses. My gaze jumps to the goblet of wine by my computer, but before I can examine it, the

and thin, dressed in all black and exuding undisguised hostility. Green eyes glow in the darkness, but

begin, for it’s clear that’s what he has, “only cowards hide in the

familiar, yet I can’t place it. “You mean you don’t

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