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

Chapter

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Alora POV

Than has always been mine, and I his.

It's been that way from a young age, from when I first started to play with him, my parents becoming good friends of his. I don't remember the exact first memory but he has always been there, always been with

me.

He had every right to be jealous, every right to be possessive...I just couldn't make the choice. I couldn't be responsible for changing their lives.

I can't blame him for reacting this way. His eyes are dark, the flames of the fire offering the only light to his face as he sits there under the dark night sky, his head under a hood. If I didn't know him I would be afraid to be near him this night. He is ripping out every page of my diary, and throwing it into the small fire before him.

I'm standing in the back garden of the alpha house, a blanket draped around my shoulders on this chilly night.

Was it chilly, was I coming down with something...or was it the act that was being carried out in front of me. It was an act of coldness, or bitterness.

Every now and again he stops to read a page before grimacing and tearing the pages against the diary's spine.

needs, is that why this diary was kept....to serve him a purpose. If I didn't make it, so that he might remember me differently. Even grown

man before me, broken again...memories coming back

secret meetings with Medea. Yet every time I walk in

towards me, and I know Than

go

looks like me. With everything that has happened I've not been able to

temper was heightened as it

in the closed office of his to his mother. Their secret chats

about something, whatever Kaia had taken was causing him distress

like how it was, Than arguing with his Mother and Father in the office,

at 16 I knew I wasn't a piece of meat to be claimed first. I knew I belonged to

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be certain, it was before his 18th birthday, we couldn't deny the older male feeling

of a young girl unable to decide what was for the best, a

the diary, annoyed you kept the photograph. But you were young, and clearly

last few pages of the diary into the fire, watching

then completes his deed by burning the diary cover on the fire with his lips

stretching up to the sky. His back uncurling from its crouched down position. "Shall we go to bed?" He walks towards me, his prowl every inch of a predatory alpha male. I nod my head, a