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.

unable to suppress the fear

to use that knife on me?

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

missed by him. My heart feels as if it is too big for my chest, and not

eyes flashing to the office door only for the sudden smell of blood to make them turn back on the

around the silver dagger's sharp blade, not an ounce

the blood gushing from his palm wound. I hold still, my wolf wanting to check the wound of our supposed new mate, whereas I am not so keen to show

of his blood mixed with his

understand...I thought you wanted

is the test...."

I

the alpha to the beta,

here, if you are to stay, then

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

my blood, I will become your

that is usually what

me as if I was misunderstanding

an eyebrow at me, little does

hand picks up the goblet, determination keeping my

the rim of the goblet, his eyes search mine for

Wait..

What?

wolf screams

is the baby's father, how do we know this alpha won't use that against us. Use us and the child as a

ives off that c

a problem?" He

long, once

too far now,

I refuse to.

up, his warm thick blood entering my mouth.

"Repeat

Immediately whispers into my