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. 

herself back and forth and clamping her eyes shut. “How

for her, sighing when she flinches away. “Everyone is different. If you‘re lucky it will be an hour or so. If you‘re

I don‘t have the heart to tell her what she‘s feeling

ever feeling so helpless as I do now. Sitting by and doing nothing goes against the very core of my being, as does seeing someone in trouble and not being able to

to comfort her. Axel

to touch her. I growl

feel better. He orders, a

fight me, but every time she lashes

little wolf, it‘s okay.” I promise, “I‘m here.

this?”

back in my arms. Yes, under any other circumstances I would be thrilled, but having her writhe in agony next to me kind of takes

you here?” Selene clarifies, a bit

my mate, and you

sickening cracking noise fills the air, and Selene‘s back bows as she howls with pain “Shhh,

can breathe again. If you‘d stayed in

you really think it would be

Selene keens despondently.

her hair. “If you don‘t know what shifting is like, how will you be able to help Lila through it

to feel sorry for myself.”

horrible thing to go through and I wish I could protect you from it somehow. I‘d go through it for you if I could.”

forth now, her eyes clenched shut and face glistening with sweat, “Stop

“Why?” I question 

seemingly out of nowhere. “I know you only want me now

she‘s serious Is this delirium talking? Are

shakes her head,

the shoulders, giving her a gentle shake Selene, look

despite the low light She looks at me hopelessly, and I wish there was a way to steal these thoughts from her brain.

“But Arabella–” 

one I core for out of obligation,

tries again

as your husband, your mate, and your Alpha now I love you, and only you is that clear

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