Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate novel Chapter 195

Chepler 195. Battle

Looking around in a panic, I demand, “where? Where has he gone?”

“His orders were for me to get you out, Selene.” Helene in forms me, not sounding as if she’s particularly interested in actually following them. “Then again, you are a headstrong young woman, and I’m just an old woman. It would be only too easy for you to overpower me and go after them.”

“Them?” I repeat, “he’s not alone?”

“No.” A deep voice sounds behind me, the man who had been standing with Helene before going to dispatch the guards. “His with the rebel leaders, Matthew and Grayson.”

Turning around, I study the strange man closely. I’m sure I’ ve never seen him before, but he seems oddly familiar. He’s got to be close to sixty years old, with gray streaked hair and the gaunt form of a man who’s known true deprivation. My wolf is already wondering if he might be my father, but the look on his face confirms it. He’s looking at me as if he’s see ing a ghost, his eyes shining with unshed tears. “Hello Selene.” He greets me warmly.

“Are you…?” | stammer, too afraid to speak the words in case they aren’t true.

“You look just like your mother.” He tells me thickly. “I nev er dreamed I’d actually get to meet you.”

“Selene, this is James.” Helene interjects, making introduc tions when she realizes we’re both too emotional to get the words out. “Your father.”

I’m already so emotional between escaping, seeing Fred eric die and finding out Bastien has gone to face Blaise, that I

instantly burst into tears. “I thought you were dead.” I tell him, hesitantly reaching towards him.

He pulls me into his arms without a second thought, and I can feel his bones protruding terribly. “You’ve been Blaise’s prisoner all this time?” I ask through my tears. He nods, hold ing me so gingerly I wonder if he thinks I’ll break. Squeezing him more tightly, I encourage him not to be shy, unable to truly processing that I’m hugging my father for the first time in my life. “I’m so sorry.” I sniffle, “Mom didn’t know, I’m sure of it.”

“I know little one.” He tells me. “The truth is I’d do it all over again for you two, though it did break my heart to hear what happened to you after she passed.”

“Nevermind that. When this is all over you can come home with us to Elysium. You can meet your granddaughter, and see the life Mom built for us.”

“I’d like that.” He agrees, “but first we have to deal with Blaise.”

“Helene, where are they?” | ask, pulling away from my fa ther for the first time.

“The throne room.” My mentor answers simply, “They lured him there after the alarms went off, he might have been distracted by you running, but I suspect he’s found them by

now.”

Swiping away my tears, I nod. “Let’s go.”

Bastien

We’re surrounded.

The plan worked perfectly, drawing Blaise to his ridicu Tously overdone throne room while the other rebels stormed the palace, and Helene, Frederic and James went to help Se lene. l’m not sure yet if they were successful, but I know the best way I can help my mate is to kill Blaise, no matter where she is now.

“Well, well, what have we here?” Blaise drawls, strolling into the great hall as if he doesn’t have a care in the world. I’m sure from his perspective he feels perfectly safe. His guards are lining the walls on all sides, outnumbering us twenty to one. “Did you mutts not get enough time in my dungeon?” He asked, looking between Grayson and I, then eyeing Matthew curiously. “And you must be Matthew Crenshaw. I’ve been looking for you for quite some time.”

“This ends now, Blaise.” Grayson declares, setting his shoulders. “Your time in control is over.”

“And I suppose you think you’re going to take my position from me?” Blaise scoffs, “You – starved, scrawny, beaten.”

As he survey‘s our motley crew, his eyes linger on me. “I’m no fool, Durand. These two might not have the mettle to take me, but after what I’ve been doing with your mate these last few weeks, I imagine you have enough rage to do some real damage.”

“Oh that’s right.” Blaise smirks, “you don’t know. You should have heard the way your poor little mate cried when she found out she was having twins, you should have seen how sweetly she begged me to let your son live after I kill your daughter.”