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.

presence helps gives me start to heal at

was sleep deprived, my mind 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 as

else would I

towards him, already trying to betray

won't have it this time, I

Her entertainment.

Chapter 0057

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come down from my morning shower that has me almost jumping out of my own skin. I didn't sense her presence through smell or

my sofa

before I burst into laughter. At

sorry, I

yet didn't wait

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

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

"Check?"

are okay. He says

know I am blocking him through the

with Than.

be touched right now, not by

"Aubrey...stop."

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

he had a mate,

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

in such

"Believe me, he did."

move back in but just let him explain." This pack was different, and maybe I owe them for their kindness...just to hear their alpha out. "I'll give it

some space. If you

I am left with her parting words. But