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

sighing when she flinches away. “Everyone is different. If you‘re lucky it will

the idea of such a long transformation. I don‘t have the heart to tell her what she‘s feeling

Sitting by and doing nothing goes against the very core of my being, as

comfort her. Axel growls.

want me to touch her. I growl

what she wants right now, she hurts, make her feel better. He orders, a note of strain

fight me, but every time she lashes out, a new spasm of pain cripples

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

this?” She asks deliriously.

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

here?” Selene clarifies,

mate, and you need me” I

air, and Selene‘s back bows as she howls with pain “Shhh, I know sweetheart, I know

She informs me when she can breathe again. If you‘d stayed in Elysium where you belong, this wouldn‘t

not very fair to your wolf, Selene ” I chastise, without venom. “Do you really think it would be

keens

how will you be able to help Lila through it

logical when I‘m trying to feel sorry for myself.” She growls.

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

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

“Why?” I question 

didn‘t want me without my wolf. She cries, seemingly out of nowhere.

a moment, sitting up to study her face, unsure whether or not she‘s serious Is this delirium talking? Are you out of your mind? Selene I always

her head, “Stop

first time ignoring her pain, I grab Selene by the shoulders, giving her a gentle shake Selene,

wish there was a way to steal these thoughts from her brain. “Selene, I have loved you from

“But Arabella–” 

I core

Selene tries again

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

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