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.”

my father. “Alpha, this is your duty. You made a vow to Flynn and your father to

and fury in their direction. “I broke the most sacred vow I ever took. How

never forgive yourself if something went wrong with the

that’s a risk i’ll have to take.” I snap, wishing I

honor, do it for intel.” Donavon finally

my mind, even as I brush them aside.

reminds, “I doubt they planned on

disheartened, I drag one hand through my hair. “What makes you so sure we can even get

assuredly. “We’ve already got eyes

blankets and patting her back while she cries. Her nose

tears and her willowy frame shaking with fear and

“He said he said he was going to kill me.

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

feel guilty 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 can’t bring myself to conjure any feelings other than relief that Arabella

Arabella, I’ve known for a long time that

for her, I would have been there when Selene needed me. She and Mom never would have gone to the

protect her from bounty hunters and power mad dictators – and it was all for nothing. The real danger was right under my nose the whole

to blame.” Her big brown eyes lock onto me, her lower lip caught in 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 at you

Selene’s POV

through my eyelids as the afternoon sun bathes my skin in golden warmth. My senses gradually return, filling in the world around me with crisp

roots. A fluttering breeze carries birdsong to my ears, along with the babbling of a distant brook, enveloping me in the sounds of the

this place. I think with languid bliss, carefully pushing myself up to examine this new plane of existence. It looks so like the forests around Elysium; the forests I grew

decide, that the otherworld should take the shape of those beloved stomping grounds; that my afterlife should be spent in the peace of the

new thought plaguing my bewildered psyche.

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