The Alpha’s Betrayed Mate: Rejected Mate Pregnancy Romance by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 - Belmont

For a split second, the cottage around them vanished. Instead, he was surrounded by trees… not the lush, vivid vegetation of Kurivon, but the temperate forests of home. The leaves were still shining with dew, the cold snap of dawn was in the air, and Venna was at his side. She always was, when he thought about those days. The days before he’d been made Alpha. The blissful, dream-like days before he’d broken Venna’s heart. This was the memory, he realized. This was the moment she’d told him. This was the moment he’d done everything he could to block from his memory—the moment that the person he loved more than anything had found the courage that had always eluded him, and told him how she felt.

“What?” he heard himself say. Venna was smiling faintly, but her eyes were full of shadows, and he knew she was thinking about that day just as he was. Focus, he told himself. Halforst was another world, and that day belonged to a different life. “Are you sure?”

She nodded. “Lorekeeper confirmed. Only a few weeks, but… it’s real.” He didn’t move, didn’t so much as let his gaze flicker towards the door. The only explanation for the sudden narrowing of her eyes was that she’d read his mind. “Don’t you dare leave this room, Belmont.”

Shame burned in him, hot and sudden, and it turned to anger just as quickly. That, at least, was a familiar feeling. He pressed it down, taking comfort in the way it smoldered beneath his heart, the most reliable fuel source he could remember. “How long have you known?” he demanded, keeping his voice cold.

“A few hours, if that,” she retorted sharply. “I couldn’t have told you a second sooner than I did, so you’ll have to find another excuse if you want to make me a villain, here.”

“I don’t want that.” The suggestion shocked him. Another flash of that day with her in the trees, the last day she’d ever looked at him like she trusted him. “Was that what you thought, that day? That I was angry with you?”

“Of course I did.” Suddenly, she looked as uncertain as he felt. “For telling you the day you were being made Alpha. For—for ruining what we had.” She gritted her teeth, that familiar frustration flaring in her eyes. “Don’t avoid the subject. We’re not talking about ancient history, we’re talking about now. We’re talking about this.”

“I can’t—” He took a breath, head spinning. “I need time to think. I need—”

“If you walk out of this room I’m coming after you with a knife,” Venna cut him off. It had the intonation of a joke, but there was a frightening seriousness in her eyes. “You can think right here, Belmont. I can’t—you can’t walk away from me. Not again.”

She was right. He had always hated it when she was right… hated it, too, when she knew that he knew she was right. She sat back on the couch now, arms folded across her chest.

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