Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate

Chapter 45

#Chapter 45 On the Run

Selene‘s POV

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 apartment? Will Drake be safe at my mate‘s mercy 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.

We‘ve been driving 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 by now? Surely he should have checked in to make sure we made it to the meetup 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, pushing away my worries and adopting a light-hearted tone.

Her tiny nose crinkles. “What‘s an venture?”

“It’s when you go somewhere new, and have exciting and unexpected experiences.” I explain, and do things you‘ve never done before, and..•* Run away from ex–husbands 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.”

perks up automatically.

onto the description.

toy?” Lila suggests

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 my face as

could.. “We’ll play all you want when we

hedge, not wanting to get her hopes up. “Not like the ones from your books, but it’s very high up and very safe, just like a castle. They were built so that no one who

certain how secure the home is until we arrive, and I have a bad feeling that if Bastien tracks us

why we should be with him, instead of alone in the middle of

want Bastien, but you

for the other shoe to drop. Luna has been impossible from the moment she caught sight of

would claim her for himself and take her away from us. Is

Waansowe energy

the poison I never came into my power out of her that part of my magle Now I’m grown and inally have an intact soul, but

wolf hin, Ani probably never will most of the Ilmei’m so happy to

I’d give my left arm

As the sun

headlights are automatically, and

the final bend in the road, a fortress like house comes into view, shielded on all sides by

as soon as I can, and gathering Lila to

know you know where she io” We’re back in the Alpha’s offee, pacing around each other like

i don’t know much about children, but if I had to guess, her little girl is close to

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