Pregnant And Rejected

Chapter 80 Antidote

Selena’s POV

Shock, fury and betrayal war for dominance in Bastien’s imposing features. He’s looking at me the same way he did when he first discovered I was alive, as if he’s realizing he doesn’t recognize me at all. Tears have been rolling down my cheeks since I woke, but a fresh surge rushes forth as I wilt beneath his scrutiny.

“Bastien, they need it now.” Drake interjects.

As if in a trance, Bastien shoves out his arm toward the lab tech, “Take it.” He orders coldly.

The poor tech is shaking as he tries to draw the enraged Alpha’s blood, and he’s not alone. Every lesser wolf in the room is positively quailing in the face of the apoplectic energy Bastien is putting off, myself in cluded.

When the young man completes his duties, he practically sprints out of the bay, heading off for the lab. No one says a word. We’re all waiting with bated breath to see how Bastien will respond, even the doctor.

When Bastien finally finds his voice, he says just about the last thing I expected. “Put on the gown.” He commands, nodding toward the ugly garment at the end of my bed. “You’re being admitted.”

I blink, my limbs frozen in place. What?

This isn’t good. Luna whines, her tail between her legs, His wolf is really mad, I can’t bear it.

It’ll be okay. I think back, trying to convince myself as well as her.

I don’t know where I find the courage to protest, but I do. “I need to be with Lila.“

dangerously, and he finally acknowledges the other people in the room. “Leave

abandoning me. Everyone but Drake. The Eros Alpha stands stubbornly inside the curtain, not looking at my mate. Instead he watches me carefully, waiting to follow my cue. I really don’t want to be left alone with Bastien, but I know that Drake staying will only result in a fight between the men. Drake will lose

okay.” I promise Drake. He nods and slips out of the bay, ignoring Bastien’s low

“You’ve been through something very traumatic today. You’re disoriented, weak and dehydrated. You need to

but I don’t care. My pup comes

away from him, cowering against the pil low. “My decision is final, Selene.” He thunders,

reaches toward me, ignoring my fright and yanking my dress off over my head. He snatches up the hospital gown and removes my bra, bundling me into the scratchy garment while

him warily, painfully aware that his anger has absolutely nothing to do with my resis tance to staying in the hospital, and everything to do with my

I murmur meekly, “I’m sorry. You have every right to be angry with me, but deflecting it this way won’t

punish me by making me stay here for treatment.” | insist. “Lila is more ill t she’s ever been before, I can’t be

like I’m a bug he’d like to smush

Bastien’s POV

that I can be so unbelievably furious at a person, yet still want nothing more than to hold them

outrage when I learned she didn’t think we were mates. I was irate when I thought she’d

betrayal; between relief and wrath;

the greatest gift I’ve received since finding my mate. I’ve loved Lila from the moment I met her, and I got over it when I learned she belonged to another man. I hated the idea of sharing her with Drake, but he didn’t seem to want to be involved in her life, so

of the woods yet, I’m elated and ec static

all this happiness is tainted by

footing. I can almost get past the fact that she never told me that she didn’t come back to Elysium when she found out she was pregnant. After all, Arabella was trying to kill her and she believed I was in love

her pup. She thought she was doing the best thing for them both. I can even ex cuse the first lie, to a point. Things were chaotic and challenging in the extreme when I first arrived in As phodel, and she was still operating

issues. Selene realized how horribly she’d been misled by Arabella and accepted how deeply I love her. We cemented our bond and are finally together the way we were always meant to be. We agreed to start fresh and move forward with no more lies