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

onto the description. “They’re playing...

a toy?” Lila

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

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

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 enter. We’re going someplace just

are. I can’t be certain how secure the home is until we arrive, and I have a bad feeling that if Bastien tracks

we should be with him, instead of alone in

know you’re mad at me, I know you want Bastien, but you weren’t there when we were together. You don’t know

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

to trap us, at worst he would claim her for himself and take

Waansowe energy

out of her that part of my magle Now I’m grown and inally have an intact soul, but some wounds

Ani probably never will most of the Ilmei’m so happy to be whole again

I’d give my

As the sun

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

the final bend in the road, a fortress like house comes into view,

vehicle as soon as I can, and gathering Lila to

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,

to process all the revelations we discovered in Selene’s apartment, 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 three years old, That would mean

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