Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate

Chapter 48

 

Chapter 48 

Bastien‘s POV 

“You‘re doing this,” Selene accuses wretchedly, “Your wolf is doing this.” 

What is she talking about? I demand of Axel. 

She‘s near her mate. Her instinct is to change. It has to happen eventually – her wolf has never been free. 

I swear under my breath. I know he‘s right, but the timing is terrible. I remember my first shift vividly – all wolves do. It‘s a horrible process, requiring almost every bone in the body to break and reform, slow and agonizing. Thankfully shifting gets easier and easier until it‘s effortless, but there‘s no way to make the first few any easier. You just have to suffer through. 

“It isn‘t like that sweetheart. It‘s just your time.” I explain apologetically. I gather up Selene and deposit her on the sofa, moaning and writhing, before moving toward the bed to retrieve Lila. 

Aiden! I call through our mental link. 

He appears almost instantly, and I carry Lila to him, “Selene is about to shift, I need you to take the pup until it‘s over.” 

“What are you doing?“ Selene snarls, trying to rise from the couch and crumpling, “you‘re not taking her anywhere!” 

Handing off Lila, I return to my mate, pulling her up and speaking softly and urgently in her ear, “Easy Selene, he‘ll take care of her.” 

“No!” She insists, a mother wolf in full defense mode, “you can‘t have her, she‘s mine!” 

“Do you really want her to see this?” I demand sternly, “She‘ll be terrified.” 

Selene‘s brow furrows, and I can see the gears in her head spinning with confusion, emotion warring with instinct. “Don‘t take her from me.” She finally begs, tears spilling from her eyelashes. 

“No one is taking her from you, baby.” I vow, “You have my word, they‘re just going to get her someplace safe while you shift. I‘ll take you straight to her in the morning.” 

“Let me hug her goodbye,” Selene requests pitifully. 

Inod to Aiden, and he returns Lila to her mother‘s arms for a tearful cuddle before removing her again and leaving Selene and I alone in the safehouse. 

curls up into a little ball, rocking herself back and forth and clamping her eyes shut. “How long is

flinches away. “Everyone is different. If you‘re lucky it will be

I don‘t have the heart

stomach drops, I can‘t remember ever feeling so helpless as I do now. Sitting by and doing nothing goes against the very core

how to comfort her. Axel

doesn‘t want me to touch her. I growl back.

hurts, make her feel better. He orders, a note of strain in his normally

She tries to fight me, but every time she lashes out, a new spasm of pain cripples her, and her attacks wane. Tucking her small

“I‘m here. I‘m not going

are you doing this?”

sweet scent and trying not to feeling any happiness to have her back in my arms. Yes, under any other circumstances I would be thrilled,

are you here?” Selene clarifies, a bit more

my mate, and you need me” I answer

the air, and Selene‘s back bows as she

you for this.” She informs me when she can breathe again.

Selene ” I chastise, without venom. “Do you really think it would

Selene keens

petting her hair. “If you don‘t know what shifting is like, how will you

being logical when I‘m trying to feel

repent, “You‘re right, this is a terrible, horrible thing to go through and I wish

now, her eyes clenched shut and face glistening with sweat, “Stop being nice to me.

“Why?” I question 

my wolf. She cries, seemingly out of nowhere. “I know you only want me

release her for a moment, sitting up to study her face, unsure whether or not she‘s serious

her head, “Stop

ignoring her pain, I grab Selene by the shoulders, giving her a gentle shake Selene, look at

pain, her pupils pinpricks despite the low light She looks at me hopelessly, and I wish there was a way to steal these thoughts from her brain. “Selene, I have loved you from the first second i smelled you I have never wanted anyone

“But Arabella–” 

the one I core for out

tries

“I‘m speaking as your husband, your mate, and your Alpha now I love you, and only you is that

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