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. 

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

lucky it will be an

don‘t have the heart to tell her what she‘s feeling now is only

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

to comfort her. Axel

touch her.

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

to let her evade my grasp. 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 body against mine, I hush her protests and massage her sore muscles.

“I‘m here.

doing this?” She asks deliriously.

any happiness to have her 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 some of the romance out

Selene clarifies,

you need me” I answer casily

noise fills the air, and Selene‘s back bows as she howls

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

chastise, without venom. “Do you really think it would be

keens despondently.

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

logical when I‘m trying to feel

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

and face glistening

“Why?” I question 

cries, seemingly out of nowhere. “I know you

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

head, “Stop lying.”

ignoring her pain, I grab Selene by the shoulders, giving her

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

“But Arabella–” 

growl. “She‘s the one I core for out of

tries again

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

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