Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond

was just too insurmountable.

So, for the last year I've remained quiet in the house he has assigned to me.

In

all honesty, I've grown tired of the life I lead, this wasn't the life I imagined for myself.

I tried to communicate with Than. I tried to put across my case to leave the Amber Desert pack, but he always said that there was still time.

I'm not sure what kind of measure of time he was referring to, but I felt out of time.

Anyway, it turned out that I was his "Luna", but in reality, I was his imprisoned canary.

However, I never gave up and ran, because I felt that my life should not the like this, and be sides, tulso had my own things that needed to be resolved.

His my ears as sit in my bedroom, an internal sigh escaping me for disturbance.

I walk out of my bedroom and downstairs, at first thinking I imagined his voice. Because why would he be

here.

But

this lingering scent was the key detail of him actually being here.

I walk into my living area to find him standing, his back to me. I can feel the chemical reaction of the mate bond trying to encourage me to touch him, to give into that gravitational pull to once again experience those tingles that only a mate can give. I resist. "What are you doing here?" He never visits me, why now.

"This is my pack, I can go wherever I want." His voice holds an irritation to it.

He has clearly been in night training; he is sweaty and dirty...his white tight vest now tingeing on the gre side, his jeans muddy from being left on the ground. His auburn hair now shaved down, not the long boyish strands I used to enjoy running my fingers through. He spins, his ejas turning a deeper brown as they flash at me... I'm only wearing a black slip. I thought I'd be alone as usual, no point dressing up for oneself. nan, why are you here?"

incurred a slight problem...

"A slight problem? And I can help how?"

to him

touch mine. "It would seem I need to

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wolf growls in my mind. She

US.

for my disrespectful comment. His aura increasing, an invisible command trying to force me

always struggled to make me submit and

He doesn't know why.

how much that grates

Let's not pretend that you have any feelings for me Than. Why bring a child up in this unloving and toxic environment?" I untangle myself from his hold and create some much-needed distance between us. "The pack

not to do, he starts walking towards me. His prowling steps resulting

This

man was

eyes to help seal the

that there has been some kind of misunderstanding between us since the wedding...because why would

at my senses, the roasted chestnut smell

at my face. A deep gulp forming

want to moan with pleasure from his touch, from the tingles that I hadn't felt

entranced by the tingles that just naturally continue, as his mouth kisses the tip of my shoulder. He pulls at my black spaghetti slip strap, running his

my wolf away, was it

He slurs on his own words as his hand grips at my neck, his hand angling my neck...a growl rumbling in

How can he

its magic. His closeness was doing things to me, his scent overpowering my thought process, I hated how the mate bond reduced me to this. "Say yes..." His lips

and pushes my panties aside. His other hand remains at my neck,

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think so, how could I knowingly bring a child into a relationship where the father can't be in the same room as the mother.

ear, his hand