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.”

duty. You made a vow to Flynn and your father to care for Arabella, to safeguard the pack. Do not disappoint them this way. Do not break your

anguish and fury in their direction. “I

something went wrong with the rescue and you weren’ t there to

snap, wishing I

without strain – and I don’t care enough to try. If you won’t do it for honor, do it for intel.” Donavon finally proffers. “If we can recover Arabella there’s a good chance she can lead us to the kidnapper. This is your chance to

far reaches of my mind, even as I brush them aside. “If she could identify them, they would never let

doubt they planned on

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

announces assuredly. “We’ve already got

and patting

splotchy, her flushed skin wet with tears

clinging to Danvers’ burly shoulders. “He said he said

nearby park bench. “Can you tell us anything about the man responsible? What he looked like? Anything he told you about himself or shared

any other circumstances I would be absolutely horrified by my apparent apathy

am of Arabella, I’ve known for a long time that those feelings come down to my love for Flynn, rather than any true affinity for his

for her, I would have been there when

Denizen, trying to protect her from bounty hunters and power mad dictators – and it was all for nothing. The real

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

Selene’s POV

the afternoon sun bathes my skin in golden warmth. My senses gradually return, filling in the

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

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

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

new thought plaguing

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