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

guess, that Gabriel was starting to become wise to

really

rushes forward and wraps her

never imagined the doctor warned me you might have some memory problems, but I never imagined it would be this

about my mother?”

go for a

my father.” I argue, still looking for any

would be

that he was her lover all along, and she married you

you and act as the grieving widow, and then Frederic will

sort through the details of

then you and 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

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

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 exile me from the

edge, Arabella continues, “I know it sounds crazy. But it’s the truth. I 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 comes over her, making my heart ache. And the moment you did she sent more assassins to kill you, only she underestimated

your memory was

you’re saying is

you don’t believe me?” Arabella

course not, darling.” I assure her, “I just can’t. I can’t wrap my mind around this Arabella. Everything you’re saying, I 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, now you’re

to the table by the door, 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

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

Arabella confides. “She pulls the strings of every person and institution she can

I have to fix this I can’t allow a person like this to run rampant in my

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