Page 59 of Rejected and Pregnant By the Alpha King

“I believe our alpha is already doing that,” the woman quips.

Rose nods. “You need anything for her, granny? Ointment? Supplements?”

“No. But could I trouble you for a glass of water? I believe our breeder is thirsty.”

Rose turns away from the bed and walks around to the other side of the motel room. She heads out of the room with the key in her hand, shutting it snugly closed behind her and leaving me and the older woman alone together.

She gently pulls my sheets back up over my body, tucking me in like a grandmother would their precious grandchild.

It strikes me as so odd, considering she hardly knows me.

“I’m sorry to meet like this,” she says, smiling again. The wrinkles in her face deepen as she does so. “I’m Elder Eris.”

Elder?Wait, surely Nyx didn’tactuallyrun all the way to his packlands to retrieve her and bring her back here, right?

Fuck, how long have I been out for?!

“Um. Raine. It’s nice to meet you,” I say. “How long have I been asleep?”

She turns to readjust my IV drip. “A few days, dear. You gave everyone quite the fright.”

Days. Gods…

“Sorry,” I mumble.

If Daniel would’ve let me have even a scrap of fucking food before he gave me away, then maybe none of this would be happening.

My anger for him flares.

He risked my baby too, but of course, he couldn’t give two shits about that either.

“How are you feeling, dear? A little bit better? I put some vitamins in the drip as well. You looked awfully pale when I arrived. Was your previous alpha not aware of what to feed a pregnant female?”

I swallow and shake my head.

At this point, it’s better to simply keep my mouth shut. Anything outside of that is only going to further cause damage to whatever reputation I have left.

My entire body jolts when the door to the room is shoved open so hard that it knocks against the wall, sounding like a bomb going off. I cower, waiting for whatever it is that’s attacking us to charge and take down Eris before reaching me.

The last thing I expect to see in the doorway is my new alpha, Nyx, looking furious.

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Raine

“Your Grace…” Eris’s voice is even as she addresses him. “She could’ve been sleeping.”

His eyes flit from me and to his elder. “And you were supposed to tell me the moment she woke up.”

“Weren’t you out getting her things to eat?” Eris quips.

Slowly, Nyx lifts the full plastic bag in his hand up in the air, a carefully blank look on his face.

“Excellent, Your Grace. She is rather thirsty as well. I did send Rose to retrieve her water.”

In his other hand, he lifts up a single bottle. “Yes, I did happen to run into her.”

Eris nods and steps back from the bed, giving him room as he walks over to my left side slowly.

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