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

Chapter 0057

Chapter 0057

Kaia POV

I was back alone, back in a home to myself.

But this time was different, the pack wasn't ignoring me. I wasn't being shunned.

Word must have got around because every morning I opened the front door to find baskets of freshly baked bread and cakes, freshly picked fruit or vegetables from their gardens.

They cared and that meant the world to me.

I just couldn't properly digest that right now.

I was still healing.

When I am ready I will thank them all with the gratitude I hold deep within me.

My new home wasn't near the pack borders a I had requested, it was close to the alpha mansion and pack house.

Hector claims it is the only one available but I don't believe him. I know for a fact that there are unused houses by the borders.

He's keeping a close watch on me. If I should leave, he'll lose all bargaining power with the Amber Desert pack.

Lose any chance of getting her out...what did he say, freeing her?

She wasn't a prisoner, I was their prisoner. She was loved and adored by the alpha, by the pack who helped keep the past from me. She didn't need rescuing.

Sleep I was struggling with. The silence of the night making more own thoughts louder, the moon's powerful glow reminding me of what I have lost.

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I could sometimes smell his burnt oranges and dark chocolate scent when I step outside to look up at the moon. The doctor said Lwould experience odd things, lack of smell, imaging scents that don't exist. That with my wolf regaining her strength, yet the reducing pregnancy hormones confusing her just as much as me,

would I imagine smelling

me towards him, already trying to betray me once

time, I refuse to be

Her entertainment.

Chapter 0057

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jumping out of my own skin. I didn't sense

from my sofa

scared me." My hands clutch at my chest, my breathing heavy before I burst into laughter. At least for a

I did

yet didn't wait for a

once. I

has been knocking and I do feel guilty, I was fond of Aubrey but I just needed

"Check?"

know you are okay. He says you are blocking him.

full well know I am blocking him through the pack link. Just as

with Than.

you..." She sighs as she walks towards me, trying to pull me into her arms. I don't want to be touched right

"Aubrey...stop."

like this. He's not good, he's trying to give you some space. But it is clear how much he misses you. How much he cares for you. Won't you

didn't know he had a mate, I

had hoped I was his mate. That's what she was going to say

of this in such a short space of time.

"Believe me, he did."

him explain." This pack was different, and maybe I owe them for their kindness...just

you some space. If you need

am left with her parting words. But rather then soothe me, they do quite the