Page 112 of Rejected and Pregnant By the Alpha King

“Why. Raine.” His fingers tighten around my jaw.

Something flashes in his eyes—an emotion that has me second-guessing myself entirely.

Is that…desire?

The next words come spilling out of my mouth before I can stop them. “Because I want you.”

52

Aiden

Nyx Calloway.

The King in the South has my mate.

Fuck me.

Pacing around my office, back in my own lands, I find myself wondering for the thousandth time how the hell I’m going to get to Raine now.

There’s absolutely no way to cross the southern borders without starting an absolute shitstorm, especially while trying to hide Raine’s relation to me. There’s no doubt in my mind that as soon as the Southern alpha king gets word that he’s got ahold of my fated mate, she’s done for.

And why wouldn’t he hurt her? As a brutal monster, he will do whatever he can to cripple me. It would certainly give himenough power to take as much of my land as he wants while I’m too busy trying to survive with our bond shattered.

Across the way from me, Delilah sits on the small lounge while anxiously watching me pace back and forth. We’ve been like this for hours, the silence overwhelming, since we’ve gotten back from her packlands.

With the discovery of Raine’s destination, while good to know, I’m so scared for her. That alpha’s treatment of his own is rumored to be abysmal, so for a breeder? She might as well be locked in that damn cage like Delilah described Daniel had in his basement.

“Fuck!” Both of my fists slam down on my desk, rattling the thing.

Behind me, Delilah gasps.

Hanging my head over my desk, nothing but regret fills me. How could I be so stupid? No matter what the truth was, at the end of the day I should’ve kept Raine here. I should’ve just put her up in one of my estate’s rooms and waited until the baby could be born and we could test to make sure they were mine, instead of just giving in to the ravings of a crazy man.

She was my mate. Myfatedmate. And I threw her out like trash.

Stupid…stupid…

“Um…Your Grace.”

Pulling in a deep breath, I say, “What, Delilah.”

“You’re going after her…right?”

Lifting my head enough so that I can turn to look over my shoulder at her, I notice that both of her hands are twined together nervously.

“I can’t with the current state of my position,” I say.

Her brows knit together. “What the hell doesthatmean?”

Sighing, I push myself up from my desk and turn to sit back on it instead. “It means that by being an alpha king, I can’t just go willy-nilly traipsing over another alpha king’s borders. That’s a recipe for a war.”

“Okay…then meet him at the border and explain that Raine was sold illegally to him.”

“He’s not going to care, Delilah. Surely you know the rumors surrounding him.”

Her mouth clamps shut at that.

The unfortunate truth is that either way, Raine is in a very precarious position. Regardless of how she’s being treated at the moment, if I were to show any kind of interest in her, that would be Nyx’s one-way ticket into using her against me.

---