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.

me start to heal at the

playing tricks on me. At night 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

would I imagine smelling

trying to push me towards him,

time, I

Her entertainment.

Chapter 0057

+25 BONUS

jumping out of my own

sofa as

hands clutch at my chest, my breathing heavy before

sorry, I

yet didn't wait

knocking daily Kaia, more than once. I need to check you are

feel guilty, I was fond of

"Check?"

wants to know you are okay. He says you are blocking

I am

with Than.

to pull me into her arms. I don't want to be touched right now, not by

"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 reach out to

didn't know he had a mate,

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

look at this pack. Look at all of this in such a short space of time. It's as if he

"Believe me, he did."

This pack was different, and maybe I owe them for their kindness...just to hear their alpha out. "I'll give it some

If you need me, please

I am left with her parting words. But rather then soothe