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.”

like that.” He agrees, “but first we have

| ask, pulling away from my fa

him there after the alarms went off, he might have been distracted by you running, but I suspect he’s found

now.

away my tears, I

 

Bastien

We’re surrounded.

his ridicu Tously overdone throne room while the other rebels stormed the palace, and Helene, Frederic and James went to help Se lene. l’m not sure yet if they were successful, but I know the best way I can help my mate is

drawls, strolling into the great hall as if he doesn’t have a care in the world. I’m sure from his perspective he feels perfectly safe. His guards are lining the walls on all sides, outnumbering us twenty to one. “Did you mutts not get enough time in my dungeon?” He asked, looking between Grayson

his shoulders. “Your time

to take my position

if you manage to defeat the three of us,

easily take you down with a

thing. A

been

his eyes linger on me. “I’m no fool, Durand. These two might not have the mettle to take me, but after what I’ve been doing with

Helene explained to me that Se lene had been hypnotizing Blaise when he came to her room at night, but that doesn’t change what he would have done if she hadn’t had her powers, or

easy mark.” I inform the wretched Alpha. “I may be angry, but you

a word, “in a few months when your brats are born they’ Il join you in the afterlife almost immediately, you won’t have

my attention completely – just not

Matthew grits out in warning, “don’t let

when she found out she was having twins, you should have seen how sweetly she begged me to

into my overwhelmed brain.

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