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

Chapter 0033

Hector POV

The role of alpha is to protect the members of your pack, even sometimes from themselves. But I couldn't protect Rosa...and it is as we feared.

The doctor confirmed that she had taken the pill which would avoid any pregnancy, especially having taken it quickly after the event. The poor girl.

She was home now, her father carrying her home, cradled in his arms as she continued to sob even in her sleep.

A life changed.

I knew what I needed to do, but I was waiting for Kaia to call it a night.

t want t her to be alone right now, something was wrong. She didn't touch her dinner and I know it wasn't just me, Aubrey commented on hearing her being sick in the bathroom.

I didn't She had

She

finally

gone to bed at midnight, struggling to keep her own eyes open as she watched some trash television show, I'm not sure what it was.

I was watching her.

I'm not involving Riley in this, he'll get the news in the morning and have the chance for revenge then.

But right now I need this to go smoothly, just alpha talking to alpha about a crime committed.

into the battle he so desperately wants. He won't be able to step

be able to

to just me and Ezra, Alpha and Beta. A select few know

females from border patrol tonight, just as an extra precaution. I'm not suggesting they can't defend themselves but...when the news gets out, in the eyes of their mates and father's, I've already put measures in place to protect them. As soon as we switched guards, it was reported to me that he had

him, which doesn't take long, he was with a group of his warriors on the

him, my footsteps heavy and slow. Deliberate in my

is on my right, walking with just as much purpose. Our

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into a small clearing, his beta initially on his right, switching to his left as we approach. "Alpha Hector, what a treat this evening." He smirks, hands held out as if he were welcoming an old friend. "Cut the b***hit

had hoped you weren't alone..." His eyes look past me, as

What a dick.

One of

My eyes gaze upon his selection of

one of my pack members did. He enticed her over, claiming to be her mate.

arms across his chest, I lose all patience with him. I didn't

"said

lunging forward, almost on the

take a defence format, readying to shift and

control my wolf... can't have him giving Than

ordered to resort to such...monstrous tactics?" I growl, taking a step closer to Than, my boots sticking to the gooey mud. It had been raining all day, not once giving us a moment of respite. "Tactics? No of course not." His jaw tenses, his lips making an expression of

someone from your pack

is instantly in my face, his

him. Something he hased out. My height advantage over him gives me

hated.

male for Kaia." His tongue runs across his top teeth,

I laugh at his pathetic