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

Chapter 0067

Kaia POV

"No...she can't let him mark her." A desperate howl almost leaves his lips, forcing my own body to react with knowing dread.

"Hector?"

"It's an invitation to their marking ceremony..." He places a hand to his forehead that firmly leaves red pressure marks visible when he finally lowers his hand back down. "Why would he send that to you?"

"Because he is toxic..." He snaps at me, and I find myself putting my walls back up. My wolf knowing before me what is inevitably to come.

"...because he wants to show that he has won."

Won...

He thrusts the invitation into my hold and I feel sick just holding it, knowing the textured card has been perfectly designed with their happiness in mind.

His own parents announcing the joyous occasion...their names solidifying the bond they share with her... the bond I never had.

They never even tried. To them I was too argumentative.

My thumb strokes the delicately printed flowers bordered with gold ink as my heart aches. A sick 'reminder of what I will never have.

My mate is finally to mark another. I knew he would, after seeing her in the hospital bed. After hearing of her reawakening. I knew this would come.

Maybe I'm just more prepared than Hector, he has never let go of his plans... of his hopes of saving her.

up.." I break out of the hold their actions would reduce me to...tears,

tears over the Sable Alpha

"How do you mean?"

just doesn't make

to stop

am seeing the madness of the wolf within. The wolf being denied a

of the human form...I can see it in Hector's pacing, as he grabs at his hair, takes steadying deep breaths in...he is trying to calm his wolf. And for once

+25 BONUS

to calm down. Look... it's not even for another fortnight.

wants to stop this ceremony before it has started? To return back to the Amber Desert

guilty of

doesn't know what she is

need to make him see... Than will never give her

make you weak, if anything it

knows what she is doing. She knows who he is...you've got to understand...as I do... that we never stood a

hands only pauses his self-harassing movements temporarily. He isn't in the mindset to listen,

way

hands from out of my hold, why does such a simple movement hurt so much. Like it carried the weight of a thousand

here....I have to do this...I

else is a stake here if he goes to her.

she is. He's going to fight to save her and the only way to save her is through

my mate. I can't let

frantic...he's in such a state of panic that he can't even find his car keys. Cursing at himself for not

are thrown to the floor as he