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. 

and forth and clamping her eyes shut. “How long

you‘re lucky it

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

nothing goes against the very core of my being, as does

know how to comfort her. Axel growls.

touch her.

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

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

I promise, “I‘m here. I‘m not going to leave

are you doing this?” She

her back in my arms. Yes, under any other circumstances I

here?” Selene clarifies, a bit more firmly

you‘re my mate, and you

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

breathe again. If you‘d stayed

” I chastise, without venom. “Do you really think it would be fair to keep her trapped inside you forever?”

Selene keens

you don‘t know what shifting is like, how will you be able to help Lila through it when the

I‘m trying to feel sorry

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

shut and face glistening

“Why?” I question 

cries, seemingly out of nowhere. “I know you only want me now because she‘s back.”

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 wanted

her head, “Stop

grab Selene by the

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

“But Arabella–” 

growl. “She‘s the one I core for

tries

and your Alpha now I

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