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

Chapter

0008

Kaia POV

"Shall we?" The Alpha places his hand out, gesturing for me to enter his home.

A level of uncertainty washes over me but I ignore it, right now I have no other choice.

Why do I feel as if I am entering the wicked wolf's den?

The doorway is wide, yet I still find myself brushing past him... surely he must feel the mate bond? But nothing, not even a sharp intake of breath.

I pause at the bottom of the stairwell, the dark wooden stair case setting the tone for this house, I hope not for the pack also.

can't be in another pack like before, unable to trust a soul.

Unable to breathe.

But maybe that is my path now, mine and the baby's....just the two of us.

"My office is this way..." His voice echos as he now stands down a hallway, waiting for me to join him. It would seem he was impatient and didn't like to be kept waiting.

I glance behind, the further I walk into his den, the further I am away from a safe escape route.

I have

no choice, I will not go back, I remind myself as I follow him into his office.

"Alpha!" Beta Ezra enters the alpha's office just after we do. A black leather sofa aligns the back wall of the office, as his desk sits by a fire place. This place didn't ooze much warm.

It doesn't have a feminine touch, which tells me he lives alone. #

Ezra places an empty gold goblet on the desk with a silver dagger.

to suppress the fear rising in

to use that knife on me? Silver...silver

yourself... The dagger is for me." The alpha reaches for the silver knife and, suddenly protective of the life growing inside of me, I take a step back. A flicker of his eyes to jet black inform me his wolf is aware of

fast which I know isn't missed by him. My heart

I feel trapped, my eyes flashing to the

around the silver dagger's sharp blade, not

wolf wanting to check the wound of our supposed new mate, whereas I

his blood mixed with his burnt oranges and dark chocolate scent creates an intoxicating perfume that tries to pull on my

you wanted me to complete a

is the test...."

I

to the beta,

you are to stay, then you must drink my blood to join the

I thought I made it clear I was looking to join his pack.

I will become your

usually what

as if I was misunderstanding

little does he know I've not even

keeping my

my lips onto the rim of the goblet, his

Wait..

What?

wolf screams in

against us. Use us and the

ives off that c

a problem?" He annoyance at being kept

stay long, once we

too far now,

I refuse to.

the goblet up, his warm thick blood

"Repeat

Ezra Immediately whispers