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.

latch onto the description. “They’re

toy?”

like a toy.” I can’t keep the smile from my face as I watch her intent expression. “And with something else, much

exclaims, buying my flimsy falsehoods as only a child could.. “We’ll play all you want when we get to…” Our fully furnished padded cell, intended to keep out serial killers and mad

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 wasn’t invited in, could ever

we arrive, and I have a bad feeling that if Bastien tracks us here, no

why we should be with him, instead of alone in

me, I know you want Bastien, but you weren’t there when we were

Luna agrees. 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

trap us, at worst he would claim her for himself and take her away from us. Is that what

Waansowe energy

into my power out of her

the Ilmei’m so happy to be whole again that I don’t feel any

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

As the sun

and only ntieen minutes later, the

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

of the vehicle as soon as I can, and gathering

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

the fact that she has a chiha i don’t know much about children, but if

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