Pregnant And Rejected

Chapter 135 Arabella Weaves A Web of Lies

Bastien’s POV

“What are you saying?” I demand. “Who is Selene?” The name seems to be ringing a bell in the very back of my mind, but I have no idea why. Of course, if what Arabella is saying is true, I would expect her name to be familiar. It simply isn’t possible. My father can’t be dead.

“Selene is your wife.” Arabella sighs.

“No.” Shaking my head, I raise my palms to her in denial. “You’re lying. I don’t have a wife, and if I did, it would be you.” I’ve always planned on marrying Arabella, ever since that horrible day Flynn died to protect me. It seemed like the least I could do in order to ensure she was always taken care of.

“Bastien, you broke our engagement when you met Selene.” Arabella’s voice is firm and steady, overflowing with patience. “She’s well she’s a con artist, some might even call her a witch. She convinced you she was a helpless victim of a wolf called Garrick, she convinced you that you two were mates and manipulated your sympathy in order to make you do her bidding. You killed Garrick for her, and then somehow she made Gabriel order you two to be wed. I don’t know how she did it, but the Alpha commanded the union. So you obeyed.”

“How is that possible?” I insist, none of this makes any sense.

“As I said, she convinced you that she was your mate.” Arabella exhales deeply, settling on the edge of my bed with a forlorn smile, “I didn’t stand a chance. You two wed, and left the pack for a while. I traveled, saw the world, started looking for my own mate it wasn’t until learned you’d finally seen through her act and were planning a rejection that I went back to Elysium.”

“A rejection?” I parrot, feeling as if I’m a bumbling idiot, repeating her every word. “But you just said we were still married.”

A tragic expression crosses the blonde’s features, and her big brown doe eyes overflow.

“The day of your rejection, she paid an assassin to break into Gabriel’s office and kill him. In the chaos that followed, all talk of a rejection ceased.”

“Why would she do such a thing?” I inquire, still not believing my ears.

“Because she wanted to control the pack, and if she lost you, that would never happen.”

She explains, “I also think

was starting to become wise to her deception.. she wanted

is really dead?”

forward and wraps her arms around me, pulling me

doctor warned me you might have some memory

about my mother?”

for a

kill my father.” I argue, still

would

do it alone. Somehow she met your cousin Frederic. My guess is that he was her lover all along, and she married you to get an inside track on

you and act as the grieving widow, and then Frederic will return to take your place. The pack

to sort through the details of

Selene stayed together while you mourned, and in the meantime she did everything she could to get rid of me. She pushed me down a flight of stairs, she

and growls of fury, but now he falls silent, trying and failing to understand. “How would faking her death help her stay in

with Frederic, and form the next part of their plan. After a couple of years she led you back to her, using your relief at finding her alive to persuade you not to ask too many questions about her pup’s paternity. She told you a story about how I tried to kill her, saying that I committed all the crimes she actually committed against me to make you

came here, and after a while you must have figured out that she was working against you all along, because you followed me to Tartarus.” A haunted look

your memory was harmed in the attack

what you’re

don’t believe me?”

don’t remember any of it. It’s not that I don’t believe you, it’s simply that I’m overwhelmed, I don’t know how to process any of this. Yesterday my family was whole and healthy,

Arabella extracts a newspaper from a thick stack, before returning with it in her palm. She places a copy of the Elysium Chronicle in front of me. “This is from two days ago. You’ve been out

growing larger and larger the more I read. The article, which identifies me as Alpha and Selene Durand as my

confides. “She pulls the strings of every person and institution she can to achieve her aims. If you ask me she

in my ears. “T have to go back. I have to fix this I can’t allow

exclaims, clearly consumed by panic. “Bastien no. If you go back, she and Frederic will