Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate

Chapter 172

Chapter 172 – Selene Finds… #Chapter 172 – Salene Finds Her Confidence

Selene

“Selene they’re almost on us!” Helene whispers urgently.

Staring at my mate, it’s easier to summon the shadows than ever. While he watches, still looking deeply confused as Arabella begs him to reject me, I wrap the darkness around the mouth of the alley. I can hear the sentries on the other side of the dark veil, but they cannot see us through the impenetrable fog.

“Who goes there?” One shouts, hesitantly reaching into the darkness. I extend the shadows toward him in reply, inky tendrils reaching out for his body like a predator. Both men leap back with little yelps. “What the hell is this?”

‘It’s got to be some kind of magic.” The other replies, “call it in.”

“We need to get out of here.” Helene urges me, tugging at my arm as I continue to wait for Bastien to decide whether or not to reject me. Luna won’t let me move until we know our fate, even if the outcome is too painful to contemplate.

Arabella, staring at the shimmering void I’ve conjured in abject horror, seems to feel the opposite. Losing her patience, she grabs Bastien and pulls him towards the opposite end of the alley, disappearing around the corner a moment later.

Their sudden departure jolts me out of my reverie, and I run after them, however by the time I reach the end of the narrow corridor and exit onto the street, Bastien and Arabella are long gone. Helene appears at my elbow a moment later, glancing over her shoulder to make sure the guards are still held captive by the shadows.

“How will we find him again?” I murmur, scanning the deserted block for the dozenth time, just in case I somehow missed

them.

“The same way you did tonight.” She replies, guiding me away

with hushed voices, “What are you doing? Don’t you know the law? You

say, wide eyed. “We didn’t know.” “I don’t understand.” Helene frowns, “why is

me a little nudge, and I reflexively jolt, looking down at her in bafflement. She tilts her head towards the man and darts her eyes in his direction, clearly encouraging me to press harder. Realizing she must want me to use my power to try and get more information out of him, I adopt the zen headspace I’ve been practicing my hypnosis with. Staring deep into his eyes, 1 ask, “I don’t understand, does that mean

the color of my eyes – after all Odette’s book described it as hypnotizing people with my eyes, not some innate power. That’s right.”

nods and thanks the man, before leading the way to our room. Once inside, she grumbles, “there’s something seriously wrong with this place. Can you imagine never going on another

you. The magic we all possess feels stronger, and the darkness frees us to let

it could just as easily be about control for the sake of control. Blaise might not have a real

the more I want to kill him.” I growl, surprising myself. I don’t think of myself as a violent person and I can’t ever remember wanting to physically

so strong it nearly won over, and I

smiles, “When she came back she didn’t just

feel like much of a predator.” I confess with a sigh, sitting on the

mentor declares, “it just takes more of a

his memory, but part of me thought he’d come out of it when he saw me, but I might as well have been a stranger to him, he didn’t remember me

forget me, no matter her schemes. Logically I understand it’s silly to expect such a thing, after all, Bastien is just a man – albeit a very formidable one. He’s not a superhero and he’s not immune to magic, but my heart doesn’t understand logic. The idea that my mate could ever turn

hold on him.” Helene concurs, “some sort

twenty years of memories bonding him to

break whatever enchantment she’s put him under, but you have something neither of us do – and that’s a mating bond. There is no more powerful magic. You have

don’t want to manipulate him.” I caution, that’s

of it as manipulation, this of it as using your wiles to remind him of the

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