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

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Chapter 0016 Chapter Hector POV

I knew he was here. My guards at the gate informed me the second he arrived, I had instructed them to do so..

A small collection of guards were also ordered to escort him onto the main pack lands, to not give him a window of opportunity to snoop.

I know I had planned this, that I wanted this...but now that it is about to happen, I'm not sure how I feel.

She looks sensational. The dress seems to have been made for her. She looked like a Greek goddess with her olive skin tone slightly enhanced from enjoying walks around the pack grounds in the afternoon sun. Her long brown hair cascades down past her shoulders and I had to stop myself from brushing it away from her neck when she walked to the bottom of the stairs.

My

throat had become dry and smart words failed me at that moment.

All

An added dded sparkle of glitter framed her face with a cuteness that still made her look desirable. She She was a vision.

She mingles well. She was confident and possessed an ease in starting conversation with strangers, even those of high ranks within shifter society. She had all the alphas and lunas eating out of her hand this evening. 1 Some of them even offering her a place to stay if she ever fancied a change in scenery.

I was careful not to let her talk to the unmated alphas for too long....she was pregnant after all. Yes, that was the reason....

"She's new?" Jude, one of the Alpha's from a neighbouring pack, follows my gaze to Kaia. Jude was a close friend of mine, we had an unspoken agreement to defend one another's packs should an attack

occur.

like him you can't

Tes.

"A transfer?"

most of my pack members, and I his. He would have noticed Kala

I keep my answer

seves lin haway.

than I appreciate and oddly my

I can sense him enter the banquet, and judging by her

left her this evening, but I was now tracking her every move...the rise and fall of her chest, the way she shuts her eyes....the way her fingers grip tightly around her champagne flute. He's before her in seconds,

+25 BONUS

+25

Jude continues to talk to me but I don't hear a word he says, all I can concentrate on is what

but with the music and loud party sounds I'm struggling to get every word. All I

on to her upper arm and something inside of me is uncomfortable with the

emitting from her which silences a few guests in their close proximity. A scene unfolding

"Hector?"

Alpha Jude who was trying to regain my attention,

come out. "There you

eyes flickering between mine and

the Amber Desert pack..." I introduce her to him, because why would they