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.

I break out of the hold their actions would

cried enough tears over

"How do you mean?"

just doesn't make

have to

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

grabs at his hair, takes steadying deep breaths in...he is trying to calm his wolf.

+25 BONUS

it's not even for another fortnight. You have

to stop this ceremony

is guilty of using those

doesn't know what she is

his hands...pulling them into me. I need to make him see... Than will never give her up. Sometimes it

if anything it makes you stronger. To admit defeat before it

is...you've got to understand...as I do... that we

embracing of his hands only pauses his self-harassing movements temporarily. He isn't in the mindset to listen, he has to see it

only way he will ever

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

have to

here if he goes to her.

to know. He's going to know how ill she is. He's going to fight to save her and the only way

Kaia, she's my mate. I can't

that he can't even find his car keys. Cursing at

are thrown to the floor as he searches his office