The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate (Jason and Laila) by Caroline Above Story novel Chapter 250

Chapter 250

All good feeling that had been growing inside of me at this reunion immediately diminished. “I’m not…”

“Oh, I know my husband told Jasen that he didn’t want you to return, only Ava, but I would never allow a mother to be separated from her child.”

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Hope was bright in Sarah’s eyes, so much that it hurt me. It will be so nice to be a family again.”

This was too much. Far too much. I couldn’t deal with this right now.

Forget the elevator, I was going to take the stairs.

“I have to go,” I said, and backed away from Sarah’s arms. Her hope dimmed, and worry replaced it.

“Did I say something wrong?” she asked.

I didn’t know how to explain. I didn’t want to even try right now.

“I have to go,” I said again, then turned and rushed toward the stairwell, walking as quickly as I could without full–on running.

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Jason followed me, though, and caught me at the door. He took my hand in his, and though he held it lightly enough I could have pulled away, I still felt tethered to him in this moment. Trapped. A prisoner.

“Please, Laila. Things don’t have to be like this between us,” he said.

My voice as cold and hard as I could manage, even as my resolve was crumbling inside, I told him, “I will never return to the Moon Ridge Pack. And I won’t send Ava there.”

“I can keep you both safe,” he insisted.

I shook my head as I pulled my hand away from his. “Sleeping together was a mistake. I gave you the wrong kind of ideas about our future.”

“No,” he said. “Don’t say that.”

“You are only making things more complicated now.

I started forward. He didn’t stop me, but he followed me into the stairwell calling after me.

“I want to be a part of your lives, you and Ava,” he said. “She’s my daughter, Laila. I know that now, and that means something

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to me.

“Just forget it,” I said. “Forget everything.”

“Impossible,” he replied.

I ran up the rest of the stairs, relieved when he didn’t follow me.

Yet as I went to Ava’s floor, and exited the stairwell, I was shaking all over. Not wanting Ava to see me like this, I rushed into the bathroom and hid in one of the stalls.

The way Jason had said that, about wanting to be in our lives, and about his being Ava’s father. In the past, I might have found that a comfort, and hoped he meant it. Now, with as much trouble as I was in, it seemed like something of a threat.

Fear coursed through me.

Was Jason going to try to take Ava away from me?

Sarah had hinted at it, saying his father just wanted Ava back, not me. Sarah said she would fight for me, but how much pull did

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she really have? If that was what Jason’s father wanted, wouldn’t Jason just go along with it too?

He had told me that he wanted to live his own life, to make his own choices, and prioritize his happiness, but I had yet to see any proof of that in action. For now, Jason was still running the pack same as always.

And he was still married to Brittany, despite his telling me he was going to get a divorce.

What reasons did I have to think he wouldn’t try to take Ava from me? Just like William had warned. Just like I had feared.

And it would be so easy for him to do so right now, as well, especially after a blood test to prove paternity.

I was already up against a wall, with heavy charges against me. If an Alpha came forward, had evidence my daughter was his, he would be given full parental rights. I was sure of it.

And that terrified me.