Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 373

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NOAH

“Reject me,” I finally say, my head starting to work again.

Rowan’s eyes widen, “What?” He pauses.

“I said reject me, Rowan,” I repeat. The last few minutes have been hell. He keeps talking, trying to convince me this bond is normal, that it could work, but I’m done. He made his choice, she was his choice, and as much as finding and losing my mate in the same day does, I can’t carry on like this, I can’t have this baby, I’m not having it.

“Noah,” he whispers.

“What?” I sniff, “That was initially your plan, and I want you to follow through. Reject me so you live happily with her,” I tell him. “You’ll be loyal to her, you’ll love only her, and you’ll continue to live solely for her without the burden of my bond.”

“I don’t want to reject you, I’m never—”

“Now,” I snap. “Do it, or I leave this place forever, and you never find me.” I threaten, pausing when I realise how little weight that statement carries. “I will never see my best friend again, and you become the reason I give up this life I’ve built here.”

“I can’t do that to you,” he swallows. “It’s going to hurt you, you’ll...it will hurt the baby.”

“Don’t worry about the baby because whether or not your rejection affects it, it’s going.”

His eyes grow wider this time, staring at me like he doesn’t recognise me, and I’m to blame. I was someone else with him, I should have been just as I was with every hookup, and maybe then he wouldn’t have tried to trap me with a baby for his wife.

“I’m getting an abortion,” I clarify. “I will not be dragged into your choices and your fucking—”

“Calm down,” he tells me, careful not to touch me this time, but I don’t miss the moment he tries to touch me and retracts. “You’re not thinking straight.”

“Because I don’t want to have a baby for you and her, I’m the one who is not thinking straight?” I laugh, more tears rolling down my cheeks. “Me? And not you and your fucking perfect chosen mate?”