All Chapters of Rejected, Princess Mate Selection Game: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Adrian"Dude!" Bryce said, waving his hand in front of my face."Huh?" I said, my attention diverted from the door I’d been staring at for the last hour. I had casually taken a position by the palace's front door, trying to catch Chloe when she returned from her date. I needed to make sure she hadn’t decided to return to Caden."You're pathetic," Bryce sighed, but his voice had a tinge of humor."I don't know what you're talking about," I sniffed. I refused to acknowledge the obvious; if Bryce was smart, he'd do the same.He wasn't. "You staring at the door isn't going to bring Chloe home any faster."I wanted to bite his head off, but he was right. "I know," I sighed. "I just have a bad feeling."I'd tried to shake off the sense of impending doom, but I couldn't. "Something's not right."Bryce raised an eyebrow. "Could it possibly be because Chloe is on a date with her ex-mate, who still doesn't know she's Harper?""He's got to be a bloody idiot not to realize Harper and Chloe are th

AdrianI glanced back into the small bathroom. Leah was unconscious on the floor, and Chloe was leaning up against the bathtub. It was clear that she’d been tortured since she was kidnapped. She looked terrible. By her glazed eyes, I knew she was still in pain. The thought made me ill. All I wanted to do was get her out of there before she was hurt anymore. It sickened me – she’d just finished physically recovering from her mad flee from her pack, and now she was injured again. The physical wounds would heal, but I wasn’t sure about the emotional ones. Those would be harder to handle. The thought made my stomach turn, and anger spike through me. They were all going to pay. There was no way I was going to let them get away with this.I glanced once more at Leah’s prone body on the ground. I’d knocked her out with one blow, deciding it was best to have her out of the way. She’d been torturing Chloe when I arrived, so I had no empathy for her. She could rot in hell for all I cared.I onl

  Chloe I was going to die here. I wasn’t sure where Leah had gone, but I knew when she came back, she was going to go too far. I wasn’t sure if it was just because her mate wanted me dead or because she wanted me dead, but I realized it didn’t matter. At the end of the day, she was going to kill me regardless of her motive. “Chloe,” someone whispered near me. My head swam, and opening my eyes took too much effort. The voice sounded familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Had someone else entered the motel room? Finally, I settled on a soft “Yes?” with my eyes still closed. “Can you open your eyes?” “No.” I tried to shake my head, but even the slightest movement made it swim. I stopped immediately. “Try anyways. I need to check your pupils. It looks like you banged yo

 Chloe Adrian did everything in his power to keep me awake on the car ride back to the palace. He chatted nonstop the entire ride. I’d honestly heard him speak more in this one car ride than I had the entire time I’d known him. He also kept his thigh pressed against my legs. At first, I’d thought it was a mistake and had shifted away from him, but he’d only scooted over to continue the touch. It wasn’t that it hurt; in fact, the warm heat from his legs felt amazing, but I had a hard time thinking when he was touching me, and I was already disorientated. “You have to stay awake, Chloe,” he said for the millionth time. “You’ve already said that, Adrian.” “That’s because you aren’t listening,” he sighed, rubbing at his face. “I’m glad you’re back

 Adrian After I didn’t need to wake her up every hour anymore, I stayed away from Chloe’s room whenever I thought my family might be in there. We needed to have a serious discussion, and it wasn’t something I wanted prying ears listening in on. It took all my self-control not to enter her rooms and kick everyone out. Now that she’d acknowledged the mate bond, my feelings for her had tripled. The longer I stayed away from her, the more irritable I became. I tried to hide it, but I knew my family had noticed. Luckily, they chalked it up to my recent rescue mission and left me alone. Finally, after having not seen Chloe for almost two days, I saw my opportunity. It was late, and I knew I’d probably be waking her up, but her rooms were empty of visitors. I nodded at the guards we’d stationed outside her door and entered, closing the door softly behind me. I went to her bed a