Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate

Chapter 36

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Bastien’s POV

Axel hasn’t made a sound in days. Though he was all but feral from the moment I answered Danver’s phone call to the second Dr Kane uncovered Selene’s body in the morgue, he hasn’t moved a muscle since. I’ve found myself reaching out to him on the hour,

extending my internal feelers toward his shape just to make sure he’s still there.

More than anything else, his absence tells me that this nightmare l’ve been living is unfortunately very real. Selene – my sweet, perfect little wolf – is dead.

She ran from my home believing I thought her guilty of a terrible crime. She fled my protection because I made her think it was persecution, and died alone and afraid.

My father’s death nearly destroyed me, but my mate’s has annihilated me completely. Everything that used to matter to me, has ceased to be important. Suddenly I don’t care if I’m the Alpha; I don’t care if the pack falls to ruin; I don’t care if Arabella is found; 1 don’t even care if I live.

I do not recognize myself, and I don’t feel the need to find the man I once was, nor create a path forward for the wretch I’ve become.

At first I took to the forest, but when I discovered that I could not shift, I returned to the pack house, and locked myself in my rooms. My mother, Aiden and Donovan have all tried to persuade me to return to the land of the living, but I have no interest in being there without Selene,

Even now, when Aiden is outside my door with news that might have sent me running last week, I want nothing more than to disappear.

“The enforcers think they’ve found Arabella.” He calls through the heavy wood panel.

“Fine.” I respond blankly, refusing to pull my attention from the picture frame clutched in my hand. “Go get her.”

“Not without you.” Aiden huffs out a frustrated breath. “We need you to lead us.”

“You don’t.” I counter, tracing Selene’s shape in our wedding photo. “Just bring her home.”

You made a vow to Flynn and your father to care for Arabella, to

protect my mate.” I lash out, flinging all my anguish and fury in their direction. “I broke the most sacred vow I ever took. How can you possibly think I care about lesser promises

never forgive yourself if something went wrong with the rescue and

a risk i’ll have to take.” I snap, wishing I could pull my mate out of the photo and into

do it for intel.” Donavon finally proffers. “If we can recover Arabella there’s a good chance she can lead us to the kidnapper.

in the far reaches of my mind, even as I brush them aside. “If she could identify

planned on letting her live.

one hand through my hair. “What makes you so sure we can

Donavon announces assuredly. “We’ve already got eyes

huddle around Arabella, wrapping her in emergency blankets and patting

swollen and splotchy, her flushed skin wet with tears and her willowy frame shaking

She wails, clinging to Danvers’ burly shoulders. “He said he said he was going to kill

a nearby park bench. “Can you tell us anything about the man responsible?

for not being more concerned, indeed, under any other circumstances I would be absolutely horrified by my apparent apathy when someone I care about is so clearly suffering. Yet I

known for a long time that

or form. She didn’t ask to be kidnapped, but if I hadn’t been off looking for her, I would have been there when Selene needed me. She and Mom never would have gone to the cabin, she would never have been implicated in a

and it was all for nothing. The real danger was right under my nose the whole time. I never saw it coming, and my mate

a trembling pout. “He said you don’t deserve to be Alpha. He said you have blood on your hands and he’s going to come

Selene’s POV

golden warmth. My senses gradually return, filling in the

eyes, the cold ground beneath my cheek littered with fallen leaves and sprawling tangles of knobby roots. A fluttering breeze carries birdsong to my

existence. It looks so like the forests around Elysium; the forests I grew up exploring with

spent in the peace of the virgin forest. The only things

and stretch my aching limbs iņ confusion, a new thought plaguing my bewildered psyche. If this is the otherworld, why do I

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