Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate

Chapter 131

#Chapter 131 – Arabella Fights Back

Arabella

Fourteen Years Earlier

It wasn’t easy getting away from Odette. The powerful she-wolf was determined to keep me in the shelter with the other women and children, but I’ve always been good at slipping through the cracks when adults aren’t looking.

I’m still furious at Flynn and Bastien, they always treat me like I’m a baby. It isn’t fair that they get to go fight while I’m expected to cower in the darkness and wait for the danger to pass. Boys get to

be warriors, why is it any different for girls? I may not be as old as they are, but I’m every bit as brave – I know I am.

Darting through the forest, I head towards the sounds of the battle, determinedly keeping my eyes straight ahead. I can hear snarls and screams in the distance, and every now and then crimson pools flash in my periphery, blood spraying from fallen shifters as their lives wink out.

I followed my brother’s scent all across the mountain, but they traveled so far throughout the conflict that all the action had died down by the time I finally caught up with them. They were at the edge of a cliff, rolling over the bodies littering the ground to check for signs of life. I’ d never seen such carnage, and my stomach churned at the terrible images.

However the faces of these dead strangers were not the ones which would go on to haunt my nightmares for years to come. No, it was what happened next that brought my world crashing down and forever ruined my chances of achieving a good night’s sleep.

One of the – supposedly deceased – wolves at the edge of the trees got to his feet when Flynn and the others had their backs turned.

I didn’t see him myself until it was too late – otherwise I would have screamed a warning. Until this moment my foolish young mind had imagined itself in love with Bastien Durand. He was everything I could dream of in a mate, and one day he would be Alpha. No one in my family’s history had ever risen to a position of such power. Flynn would come the closest by becoming Beta, but if I married

Bastien i’d outdo even my superstar brother.

Well, those dreams died when the enemy wolf charged Bastien, and Flynn threw himself at the would-be killer just in time. Now I did open my mouth to scream, but unfortunately no sound came out. I stood there with my mouth gaping wild while Flynn and his target toppled over

the edge of

the cliff

million times more in my memory. The last surviving member of my family was gone in the blink of

one day rule the

head if it was the last thing

dead!” I choke, clawing at the huge wolf’s

that wolf’s

snarls, “You think

it wasn’t!” i

people rather than coming after me directly?” He

and kicking at

friend to me than you ever were.” Nothing I do seems to budge his hold, but still I fight, lashing all of my anger out at him. “He offered me revenge, all you ever offered me was condescension, as if marrying you could ever make up for my loss –

with me for years and I felt guilty enough about Flynn that I was willing to do whatever it took to make you happy. But in the end I did what was best for us both, I still provided for you, and I left the door open for you to find your own fated mate.” Bastien

 

stopped caring about romance the day Flynn died. Since then all I have

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you so I could rule and ensure Flynn’s sacrifice would actually have been worth something. But you

about Selene? Bastien demands, “what about my pup? They didn’t have anything to do with Flynn’s

you pain. I wasn’t strong enough to take the pack by force, but through them I could finally make you feel

be ashamed of you.” Bastien grates out, baring his sharp canines. “He would be mortified to

to feel any way about me anymore.” I remind Bastien. “And when I’m done. Selene and your brat won’t have the option to

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