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

Chapter 0071

Hector POV

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The speed in which I'm driving isn't as fast returning to the Dark Phantom pack as it was leaving it. I needed time to cool off, the drive back being the perfect time frame to do so.

I didn't want Kaia to get involved, her reaction to the invitation was proof that she wanted nothing more to do with Than. I wouldn't let her keep getting dragged into my twisted past with Than and Alora. Kaia had been through enough.

I was followed the entire journey back. A few selected Amber Desert warriors given the task to make sure I returned back to my pack...keeping a watchful eye on me.

It was soul destroying to leave Alora having only just seen her. I didn't want to leave her, I wanted to jump over that gate and pull her into my arms...remove her from that toxic environment.

Leaving her left a pain in my chest...something didn't feel right but I couldn't place it.

4 years she had been unconscious and he wouldn't even let me talk to her...hold her. Hold what is supposed to be mine.

Suddenly, that same pain in my chest intensifies, causing me to temporarily swerve the car off the road.

I slam my breaks down hard as the car skids on mud. I look in the rearview mirror to find the vehicles following me have also come to a sudden stop.

My hands rub at my chest, as I feel my face grimace from the pain....until it stops as soon as it started.

'I could sense that Alora hadn't been marked, so what was it...what was causing me such pain...

As soon as I enter the Dark Phantom pack gates the warriors following me speed off. I knew they wouldn't intercept...clearly acting as a surveillance team for Than.

I'm surprised to find the music no longer blurring out into the pack grounds from the anniversary party. They can't have turned in for the night already. Last year's event didn't finish until 4am. I remember the hungover state of most of the warriors at training that morning, only 2 hours later.

It isn't until I enter the safe private sanctuary of my office that my emotions try to overwhelm me. Anger. so fierce that my skin feels as if it should be turning red and hot to touch.

taking a

need to be more creative in getting to

glass of whiskey... the glass resting at my temple. Trying

pouring another when

""Where were you?"

matter off site, why aren't you at the party. In fact, while you're here,

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"That's not possible Alpha."

the party when I left? She didn't go home alone did she?" Fuck, she probably did. I was

I failed to support Kaia. I failed her as an alpha....as a friend.

until the morning. If you're passing her

piece of paper and a pen, and start to

she is asleep. Hopefully she will get the note early in the morning and join

growls in

hand the now folded note out to Ezra who seems reluctant

the morning." place my head in my hands, wanting to get to bed so that I can start making plans of actions first thing tomorrow morning. I need to get her

need to sleep. The headache was only increasing in intensity and Ezra wasn't making any sense. How much

You must have

the sound of what he is insinuating. My wolf manages to lunge forward, forcing me to stand up and rush over

she Ezra." I demand, my hands placed on

"She's gone Alpha."

Gone....

we

chest....that pain I felt whilst

was so engrossed with seeing

it wasn't...it was