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.

chest pain now taking a back seat as anger

to leave her there...I need to be more creative in

glass of whiskey... the glass

slowly sip my drink, pouring another when Ezra bursts

""Where were you?"

to a matter off site, why aren't you at the party. In

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"That's not possible Alpha."

I was a

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

sleep and wait until the morning. If you're passing her house tonight could you put this note under her door for

of paper and

her up through the mind-link if she is asleep. Hopefully she will get the note early in the morning and join me here for

growls in my mind, that pain in my chest

folded note out to

place my head in my hands, wanting to get to bed so that I can start making plans of actions first

in intensity and Ezra wasn't making any sense.

You must have

manages to lunge forward, forcing me to stand up and rush over to

demand, my hands placed on Ezra's

"She's gone Alpha."

Gone....

tried to stop her, we all did. Something must have

pain I felt whilst driving in the

with seeing

it wasn't...it was