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

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Chapter Kaia POV

I was struggling to sleep, my mind was completely on what had happened to Rosa and I found it hard to escape the memories of her haunting cries as the doctor checked her.

She was covered in bruises, whoever he was, he hadn't been gentle. Not what a mate should be at all. This poor girl will be a shadow of herself for a long time.

I held onto her throughout, I had only just met the girl but something hit home with me about what she had been through.

I kept hearing her cries throughout the rest of the day as echoes replaying in my ears. Nausea completely taking over me plenty of times.

Mates can be cruel.

I didn't tell her what the pill was for, I just told her to take it.

Was that wrong?

Did I abuse her trust in me?

She was too young to deal with that, she has her entire life ahead of her. If this was her mate, she deserved so much better, and in time she'll realise that mates are meant to be a gift, not a curse.

relate it to my own current predicament. But I didn't have the love of a solid family behind me like Rosa, I

belly had massively grown in one day and I was now starting to find

that I was mate-less but pregnant. That I would be burden to

Stigma always sticks.

in vivid flashbacks every time I close my eyes,

I open the bedroom window hoping the night air will cool my hot flushes down; caused by the

push open the window, I see two figures walking in the distance, my

the pack's Alpha and Beta walking

wolf demands as she yawns, sounding half

we can't

I fear I was

I cared for her brother and

admitted it to myself, but how could I not? I seemed to have a one sided mate bond with him, and the way he handled today, was the complete opposite of Than. He was a leader, he remained strong when others would use their fists. If things were different...if we had met another

But I can't stay.

enemy pack, I'm not a cruel person...I

Father or hide in the human world for

the bedroom window, and am surprised to find not 2 but 3 males returning from the

who stops and I wonder why until I see the car

arrival leaving muddy car tyre marks in the grass. It hadn't stopped raining all day and all

must be the