Pregnant And Rejected By My Alpha Mate By Caroline Above Chapter 181
Chapter 181 – ise Makes an Offer
Bastien
ise is still peering around my back, trying to get a good look at Selene, though it’s clear he’s already
seen her eyes. “Come out,e out little wolf.” He encourages, sounding as though he’s luring a small
child out to y. “Let me see you.”
Axel is wing at the surface of my skin, desperate to put down the other Alpha before he can harm
my mate and unborn pup. “Selene,” | instruct quietly. “Run.”
I feel her little fists curl more tightly into my shirt. “No!” She whispers frantically, “I’m not leaving you
here.”
“And she’s brave too.” ise chuckles, clearly delight ed. I’m not sure what to make of the man. The
way he’s speaking to Selene is so altered from the way he barked at Arabe. Then again, I suppose
that if he’s spent more than half his life searching for something, finally finding the ob ject he’s so
obsessed with would make him a bit overenthu siastic.
“I said run.” | grit out through clenched fangs. “That’s an order, mate.”
I can feel Selene shaking her head in defiance, even as I
snarl at her more viciously than I did when I thought she was my enemy. She jolts in shock, but just
holds onto me more tightly.
“Clever girl, you found your own Alpha to protect you.” ise croons, “but running won’t help you now.”
“I don’t understand.” Arabe announces shakily, “What’s going on?”
“Shut her up.” ise orders coldly. At first I think he must be talking to the man still waiting behind him,
but the next thing I know a small army of guards enters the church, entering from every door around
the chapel. My stomach immediately tangles into knots. It was questionable whether we could fight our
way out of here with only ise to defeat, now it will be impossible.
As I watch, one of the guards stalks Arabe into a cor ner, making her cower and whimper with fear.
With as little care and ceremony as if he was snapping a twig, the sentry reaches out and snaps
Arabe’s neck, dropping her swiftly and letting her body crumple to the ground. Selene yelps, 1
suspect more in surprise than anything else.
To my shock, the sound of her cry seems to worry ise. “Now, now,” He cautions in that same
sharine tone, “don’t be afraid, my lovely. Your death will be much kinder.”
Unable to contain Axel for a moment longer, I shift, roaring as my body contorts and transforms. When
the shift isplete, I lean my hind quarters against Selene, using my weight to herd her backwards.
However the mo ment Selene was revealed, ise’s face lit up like a kid in a candy store.
“My Goddess, you’re even more beautiful than I imag ined.” ise praises, his eyes raking over her
form. They freeze when they arrive at the gentle swell of her tummy. He gasps softly, appearing
completely transfixed. “You didn’t tell me she was breeding.” He says to the man behind him..
“I didn’t know it mattered.” The man answers gruffly.
“Oh it matters.” He murmurs reverently. “In fact, you just doubled your reward.”
ise gives one of his men a signal, and the guard pro duces a pair of briefcases to hand to the shifter
. The man takes them and runs out the door so quickly I suspect he wasn’t sure ise would actually
let him keep the money he’s been promised. It wasn’t until he ran away that I real ized Helene was
nowhere to be found. The witch had been by Selene’s side when she entered the chapel, but some
where along the line she must have sensed the danger and disappeared. This and only this gave me a
spot of hope we might be able to find a way out of this.
Looking back at us, ise shakes his head, making a soft tutting sound. “So remarkable, and that
mongrel locked you away like you were nothing.”
As he considers us, rubbing his chin in thought, I notice the shadows swirling in our periphery. I’d been
so distract ed by the danger we’re facing I almost forgot Selene has been training to use her powers
while I’ve been away.
However I’m not the only one who notices, ise sees the tendrils of ck fog slowly edging in around
him, and positively cackles. “And you’ve even unlocked some of the secrets of your magic!” He ps
his hands together, “You’re magnificent.”
_”Enough fawning.” Selene hisses. “You cannot fool me into lowering my guard.”
“Oh that was never my intention,” He answers smooth ly. “I just cannot get over how incredible you are.
And now I have a choice.” He adds gleefully, staring at her stomach. “Decisions, decisions.” He says to
himself, “It seems such a shame to destroy something so perfect. What’s a few more months?”
With a sh of understanding, I realize what he means. He’s debating keeping Selene for himself, and
waiting until our baby is born to perform whatever spell requires a Vna sacrifice to grant eternal life.
I’m not sure whether Selene is following his train of thought, but she’s done waiting. She swirls the
shadows around us until my vision ispletely obscured, filling the room with a darkness so thick it’s
impossible for ise or his men to see us. Leaving a small bubble of light around us, Selene draws in a
few nervous breaths. She moves to stand in front of me, sending out a powerful burst of ener gy out
into the room.
The problem with the darkness she’s created is that it blinds us too, and I can sense Selene struggling
to decide what to do next. Leaning into her legs, I try to silently en courage her to just breathe and not
get overwhelmed, still i can feel the trembles running through her small body.
“Very nice.” ise calls into the darkness, “but you should know you’re not the only one with powers,
my pet.”
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All at once the darkness dissipates, but when the shad ows clear we see at least a dozen of the guards
fell to Se lene’s energy burst. Unfortunately ise is still standing, and one of the men I took to be a
sentry is by his sides, hands extended as light pours from his chest, battling back Selene’s ck
fog. We should have anticipated that he would have his own spellcasters, but I’m relieved to see some
of the resistance has been thwarted.
The path to the door is far from clear, but with my strength and Selene’s powers, we might stand a
chance. Nudging Selene to the right, I move to the left, hoping to divide their focus and hopefully draw
the wolves away from my mate. ise watches with rapt attention, and Selene
nces outside, where night has finally fallen.
This time instead of darkness, she summons the moon – the same pearly light she glowed with the
night we met in the alley. It spills from her chest, spiraling towards the spellcaster like a bullet from a
gun. I cannot watch any longer when a trio of wolves bear down on me. Dispatching them quickly, I turn
to my next opponents, tearing at their vulnerable underbellies with my teeth and ws, breaking bones,
ripping flesh and striking them down without mercy.
However for every wolf I take down, two more appear, and before long ise’s entire guard is on me. It
seems like every sentry he brought with him is now charging towards me, and though I know the odds
are now against me, I pray it’s enough to let Selene escape.
A dozen wolves wrestle me to the ground, forcing me to shift back into human form. Whipping my head
around to try and see Selene, I find her frozen in the doorway, star ing at me in panic even as she
holds ise at bay with a ball of light between her palms. The spellcaster has fallen, but ise looks
entirely unconcerned.
When his gaze lowers to me, a glint of something akin to respect in his sharp eyes. “I have to
say you’re every bit as formidable as I was told.”
Ignoring him, I shout at Selene. “Go!” Her lower lip trembling, she shakes her head, and I put every bit
of Alpha authority I can muster into my voice. “Go Selene, run!”
She visibly shivers with the impact of my order, but still she does not move. “Let him go.” She snarls at
ise.
The other Alpha is looking back and forth between us with eager anticipation. “You know Arabe was
annoying as a gnat, but I have to admit, she did have a good idea ev ery now and then.” He
acknowledges, nodding towards the men holding me down.
I feel something sharp between my shoulder des, and then Selene’s terrified voice reaches my ears.
“No!”
“Damn it, Selene!” | roar, “Leave me, get out of here.”
“Do you want him to live, my beauty?” ise offers her, using the same crooning tone.
She raises her hands, preparing tosh her magic out at the Alpha, but he wags a finger and I feel the
de in my back pierce through my clothes, “Ah, ah.” He scolds, “You attack, and he dies.”
“So what, I should let you kill me instead?” She snaps.
“Nonsense.” He grins, “Why would I kill you when I can keep you?”
“I don’t believe you!” She cries, staring at me with terror and longing.
“It doesn’t really matter what you believe.” ise shrugs. “You can watch your mate die, or you can
come along like a good girl and I won’t set him free, but I won’t kill him either.”
“Don’t do it, Selene. He wants the baby!” | warn her des perately.
“He’s right. I do.” ise confirms, “but that’s months down the road. Plenty of time for you to try and
find anoth er way out of this.” He tempts her with a predatory smile.
“Why would you take the risk of me escaping you?” She hisses.
“Because you won’t.” ise answers coldly, “Not so long as I have your mate at my mercy. You can’t
leave here, without leaving him to die.”
I can see her considering it, I can sense his logic work ing on her. “Baby go now!” |mand. “It’s
okay,” | promise, truly preferring to die, even though it kills me to know I’ll never meet my child.
The pain in my back grows sharper, and ise’s power ful voice rings out, “Decide Selene – your
freedom or your mate?”