Page 40 of Rejected and Pregnant By the Alpha King

Delilah scrambles back onto her feet again, but there’s a sag to her that wasn’t there before. She has blood coating her fur from a wound I can’t see, and she’s limping.

I throw Abram to the ground once more and dart toward the stairs.Come on!

She follows close behind me, stumbling.

I don’t bother trying to be sneaky getting out of the estate—I’m sure our fighting has attracted some kind of attention and enforcers will be swarming the place soon, if they aren’t already.

Delilah and I make it out the doors just as a patrol is arriving for a shift change.

Seeing us, they immediately dart for us.

Shit, run! Woods!I push into Delilah’s mind and sprint.

I run as fast as my legs can carry me, blowing through the town and hoping like hell that Delilah’s right behind me. I can hear something following me, but there’s no time to look back and see if it’s her or another enforcer hot on my ass.

Heading into the woods, I run through the deeper parts, where the thicket is overgrown and hard to manage, even by skilled patrols.

With Delilah’s injury, I want to get us as far away from the enforcers as possible in order to hunker down and recover while she heals.

But that’s only if we can lose them first.

Delilah!I howl back, hoping.

The lake…we can lose them there.

Relief floods through me when I hear her in my mind.

I detour off our path and head for it.

The lake is large and untouched by humans. It’s a place where we all go during our patrols to freshen up and recharge before continuing to check our borders. However, to get down to it, you have to navigate a steep rock incline, which is hard to do when you’re being chased.

I trust her though. She has to have some kind of plan—

There’s a snarl behind me and then something heavy hits the ground. My paws dig into the dirt, stopping me from continuing on as I circle back around.

One of the enforcers has Delilah by the neck again, pinning her down.

Go!she screams at me, struggling under him.

I can’t leave her. What happens if—

Go to him!she whimpers as the teeth around her neck tighten.

I don’t have time to think or argue with her. I turn on my heel and run fast through the thicket and the overgrown foliage. I run as fast as I can possibly manage and push past even that, the distance growing between me and my homeland as I run for Pollis.

No one pursues me, which feels like a slap in the face. But it’ll give me a chance to get there—to get to Aiden and tell him what happened.

He’ll help rescue Delilah and then she can come to Pollis and live with me. She’ll be free and won’t have to be punished for my sins.

I don’t know how long it takes me before I reach the Pollis border, nor do I realize I’ve crossed into them until I realize I’m being followed on either side by a couple of enforcers, clearly curious as to what the hell I’m doing.

My body collapses the moment I come to a stop, exhausted from running for gods know how long. I shift into my human form, lying in the cool grass while I pull in huge breaths of air to try to stop the world from spinning so much around me.

“Are you alright, miss?” someone asks me.

I have no energy to lift my head, only mumbling into the grass, “Aiden…”

“What did she say?” someone else says.

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