Pregnant And Rejected

Chapter 107 Drowning

Selene’s POV

This was a mistake.

I know it the moment I hit the water. I was a fool to attempt such a ridiculous plan. I plunge beneath the turquoise surface like a ton of bricks, sinking to the bottom of the pool and trying not to panic.

The pool is only about twenty feet deep, but even that shallow pressure seems crushing to me. I feel like I’m being flattened, like the entire world has come crashing down on top of me and I’ll never be able to get out from under it.

I’m running out of air quickly, but all I can think is how strange it is down here. Time is moving so slowly, and everything is fuzzy and blue. It might be beautiful if it wasn’t so terrifying. I spread my arms out to my sides, trying to imagine a well of power trapped inside me, picturing myself reaching into it and pulling out my own salvation.

I can’t hold in the air I’ve been storing in my cheeks any longer, breathing it out through my nose and watching the bubbles ascend to the glittering surface so far above. I feel some relief just letting that bit of weight go, but in my heart | know my window of opportunity is closing.

Clamping my eyes shut, I try to force my hidden strength into being. If I don’t do something, I’m going to die. I think firmly, If I don’t find a way out of this, I’ll drown.

A tiny spark flickers to life in my chest, an odd sort of electricity that feels alien and familiar all at once. It’s working. I’ve got too little air and I’m too deep for Odette to reach me in time. I tell myself grimly, pulling at that spark with all my strength.

The effort of resisting my instincts to breathe in is beginning to strain my lungs, I know I’ll only take in water if I try to take a breath, but I can’t hold out much longer. Bastien will have to relive your death. You’ll be torturing your mate.

The spark grows, expanding like a miniature ball of light in my heart. That’s it! Luna encourages, keep doing that!

The electricity is growing, flooding through my limbs little by little. The power is building, but in a wave of fresh panic realize I don’t know what to do with it. I can feel it, but I don’t know how to use it. What good is this light, this electricity? It can’t give me oxygen.

At that moment my lungs finally give out, and I suck in a great gulp of water. The pain is instantaneous, salty fluid flooding my lungs, burning in my chest like a thousand needles. No! I think as the light dims. I grapple for the edges of the power, trying desperately to hold on to the nascent force as I sputter and cough, drowning for the second time in my short life.

Darkness closes in, encroaching around my vision in a dense black cloud. Pain, both physical and emotional, pierces my heart as I realize I’ve failed.

And just like that, the spark goes out.

Bastien’s POV

was wrong the moment I got back to the pack house. I can’t explain why or how, only that my hackles raised and Axel went on high alert the second i stepped through the door. I immediately went up to

Beta’s sister. The poor woman looked so startled when I entered she jumped half a foot in the air. Before I could apologize to her, Lila was toddling to

knelt down to her level, sweeping her

climb into my arms even though I’m attempting to

glancing between

pouts, squirming her way into the crook of

I lift her as I stand and approach

anxiously, “They’re

explain honestly, “Something feels off. Do you know what they’re doing

She shakes her head, reaching for Lila, “Here, you go. I’ll

I hand her

angel.” I promise.

looking up at me with wide,

I answer apologetically,

out of the room, the sounds and smell of her tears tugging at my heartstrings so powerfully I might have turned back if it wasn’t for the terrible sense of dread eating away

legs to carry me to the hall quickly enough. Instead I storm through the halls at top speed, Aiden and Donavon never

“I don’t know what, but

Selene’s

escape my notice that the last time Selene went off with Mom, Arabella set fire to our family

shakes his head, already on the same wavelength. “You were feeling this

breaking into

guards trailing behind us, I can hear a commotion by the pool: splashing and Mom calling Selene’s name,

she’s not in the pool! I think desperately. Did she fall in? What the hell were they

through my chest so suddenly it stops me in my tracks, bending me double and making me gasp for air. Axel is howling desperately, calling for his mate and begging for her to reply. Aiden and the other men are gathered around me, anxious

there’s nothing to be

only mean one