Chepler 195. Battle

Looking around in a panic, I demand, “where? Where has he gone?”

“His orders were for me to get you out, Selene.” Helene in forms me, not sounding as if she’s particularly interested in actually following them. “Then again, you are a headstrong young woman, and I’m just an old woman. It would be only too easy for you to overpower me and go after them.”

“Them?” I repeat, “he’s not alone?”

“No.” A deep voice sounds behind me, the man who had been standing with Helene before going to dispatch the guards. “His with the rebel leaders, Matthew and Grayson.”

Turning around, I study the strange man closely. I’m sure I’ ve never seen him before, but he seems oddly familiar. He’s got to be close to sixty years old, with gray streaked hair and the gaunt form of a man who’s known true deprivation. My wolf is already wondering if he might be my father, but the look on his face confirms it. He’s looking at me as if he’s see ing a ghost, his eyes shining with unshed tears. “Hello Selene.” He greets me warmly.

“Are you…?” | stammer, too afraid to speak the words in case they aren’t true.

“You look just like your mother.” He tells me thickly. “I nev er dreamed I’d actually get to meet you.”

“Selene, this is James.” Helene interjects, making introduc tions when she realizes we’re both too emotional to get the words out. “Your father.”

I’m already so emotional between escaping, seeing Fred eric die and finding out Bastien has gone to face Blaise, that I

instantly burst into tears. “I thought you were dead.” I tell him, hesitantly reaching towards him.

He pulls me into his arms without a second thought, and I can feel his bones protruding terribly. “You’ve been Blaise’s prisoner all this time?” I ask through my tears. He nods, hold ing me so gingerly I wonder if he thinks I’ll break. Squeezing him more tightly, I encourage him not to be shy, unable to truly processing that I’m hugging my father for the first time in my life. “I’m so sorry.” I sniffle, “Mom didn’t know, I’m sure of it.”

“I know little one.” He tells me. “The truth is I’d do it all over again for you two, though it did break my heart to hear what happened to you after she passed.”

“Nevermind that. When this is all over you can come home with us to Elysium. You can meet your granddaughter, and see the life Mom built for us.”

agrees, “but first we have to

| ask, pulling away from

“They lured him there after the alarms went off, he might have

now.

away my tears, I

 

Bastien

We’re surrounded.

palace, and Helene, Frederic and James went to help Se lene. l’m not sure

His guards are lining the walls on all sides, outnumbering us twenty to one. “Did you mutts not get

Grayson declares, setting his shoulders. “Your time

going to take my

the three of us, even you have to get exhausted after a while. We’ll throw chal lengers at you until

simply accept? To fight you when my security forces could easily take you down with a snap of my

only a coward would do such a thing. A true Alpha would defend his title in single combat

always been done.” I

fool, Durand. These two might not have the mettle to take me, but after what I’ve been doing with your mate these last few

to her room at night, but that doesn’t change what he would

an easy mark.” I inform the wretched Alpha. “I may be angry, but you won’t distract me from

never spoke a word, “in a few months when your brats are born they’ Il join you in the afterlife almost immediately, you won’t

promises not to get distracted, his words pull my attention completely – just not

in warning,

she found out she was having

slowly sink into

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