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

Chapter 0047

Kaia POV

My hands are covering my ears. Every single word that comes out of his mouth is just lie after lie. "Kaia, you need to calm down. The baby..."

"This baby i

is his. Your enemy's...what were you going to do..trade me and the baby in for her?" Oh goddess I didn't actually believe he was capable of such a thing until I see the reaction in his face. He tries to disguise it but in that brief moment, he couldn't even deceive his own reaction.

Yes

s that was his plan all along. To befriend me, get me to trust him..only to trade me and the baby in for her.

"Do you love her?"

"It's complicated..." He closes his eyes, a deep sigh escaping his lungs. Like it pains him to talk about her. "Complicated?"

"She was meant to be mine but he already had her."

"So I'm right, she is also your mate?"

Yes."

I don't even realise we have an audience until I hear Aubrey gasp at Hector's admission. So they were mates, which is why...like Than... he couldn't feel the bond between us. Doomed to always be second best.

alone as a rogue and face parenthood alone in the darkness than live

"Kaia..."

"Do you love her?"

moment to consider

foolish man to not

an enigma. If it's not a

me. Me..all of this, was it so

"Kaia.."

pushes forward, screaming at her own lungs. I push her back, she shouldn't be draining her

"Yes. I

know you..." "What so now you know

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doesn't know how." His hands run through his dark brown hair, leaving it

to death's door and I was her miracle recovery... that in handing me back he would be sacrificing me but saving her, even if he didn't get to be with her. He would still do it. He has admitted that he still

feel as if the sky is falling in

my fate, I would tell him that the wolfsbane his precious mate consumed has ravaged

knowing he signed my fate. That

can't,

my life to keep it away from this twisted love triangle they

found out he would keep me alive until I gave birth, then claim the child as the heir, letting

be free, free of Than,

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wants to. I've given up filtering my words, given up hiding my pain and anger through the pack bond. He can feel everything I am feeling. He's trying