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.

the description. “They’re

a toy?” Lila

the bitter sarcasm out of my voice, “With something our friend treated like a toy.” I can’t keep the smile from my face

exclaims, buying my flimsy falsehoods as only a child could.. “We’ll play all you want when we get to…”

squeals. Whoops. “Well not a real one.” I hedge, not wanting to get her hopes up. “Not like the ones from your books, but it’s very high up and very safe,

I hope we are. I can’t be certain how secure the home is until we arrive, and I have

is why we should be with him, instead of alone

you please give it a rest, Luna? I beg. I know you’re mad at me, I know you want Bastien, but you weren’t there when we were together. You don’t know what it was like, and Lila is

from the moment she caught sight of our mate, and I’m certain her agreement is a misdirect. She doesn’t disappoint. And her father is the only other

would use her to trap us, at worst he would claim her for

Waansowe energy

power out of her that part of my magle Now I’m

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Huht about how I’d give my left arm to transfom no matter how painful

As the sun

car’s headlights are automatically, and only ntieen minutes later, the ope

house comes into view, shielded

as soon as I can, and gathering Lila to

patience, Cavanaugh “I growi, “I know you know where she io” We’re back in the Alpha’s offee, pacing around each other like etteling vultures,

children, but if I had to guess, her little girl is close

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