#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 youve 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.”

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toy?” Lila

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 I watch her intent expression. “And

“We’ll play all you want when we get to…” Our fully

hopes up. “Not like the ones from your books, but it’s very high up and very

certain how secure the home is until we arrive, and I have a bad feeling that if Bastien tracks us here, no security measures in existence

why we should be with him, instead

know you’re mad at me, I know you want Bastien,

I’m already waiting for the other shoe to drop. Luna has been impossible 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 person who could understand that the way we

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

Waansowe energy

never shifted when I reached physical maturity, blocked by the poison I never came into my power out of

Ani probably never will most of the

for the lone but Huht about how I’d give my left

As the sun

automatically, and only

fortress like house comes into view, shielded on all sides by thick stone

of the vehicle as soon as I can, and gathering Lila to

running out of 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, each overflowing with

least of which is the fact that she has a chiha i don’t know much about children, but if I had to guess, her little girl is close to

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