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.

doesn't add up.." I break out of the hold their actions would reduce me

enough tears over

"How do you mean?"

this....it just doesn't

have to

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

seams, desperate to break out 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

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to calm down. Look... it's

stop this ceremony

of using those

doesn't know what she

need to

own sanity... it doesn't make you weak, if anything it

She knows who he is...you've got to understand...as I do... that we

pauses his self-harassing movements temporarily. He isn't

only way he

hold, why does such a simple movement hurt so much. Like

to do

wolf growls internally reminding me of what else is a stake here if

after him...if he sees her...he's going to know. He's going to know how ill she is. He's going to

she's my

such a state of panic that he can't even find his car

are thrown to the floor as he searches