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

Chapter 0072

Hector POV

1 month later

I'm staring at the same map that I have stared at for the past month. Hoping that something will suddenly come to me, or, the map will magically make something jump out.

Where was she...

I had searched every neighbouring pack, every local human town and city...she can't have just disappeared. Someone must know where she is..

I was torn...

I had warriors watching the Amber Desert pack's movements daily...tasked with ensuring the marking ceremony didn't take place. Which it hasn't yet. I had Alpha Damon's promise that nothing would happen until he approved it. They weren't in a position to risk a war with my pack and my alliance packs.

Guilt ate away at me daily mixing with the constant feeling of concern for Kaia's safety.

Where was she...

Alpha Jude and Ezra's brother, Beta Edmund, had been assisting with my search. Jude was the only person that knew of my failed mate connection with Alora and how she drank wolfsbane. He was there for me when I didn't want to keep living. Jude suggested spreading the search wider, that she may have travelled for sanctuary in a pack further

away.

The map in front of me was of the entire country...pack lands highlighted only to be crossed off if a search had taken place and ended up being unsuccessful.

Something was festering inside of me, like an infection. I couldn't understand it but all I knew is my wolf and I missed Kaia, that we wanted to find her. To make amends.

In trying to search for her, I realised I didn't actually know a lot about Kaia. Her details before joining the Amber Desert pack were hard to source, something that Ezra was assisting me with.

For some reason she had a shady past and it concerned me even more to think she may be in trouble.

on the door brings me out of my tranced like stare at the map,

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I'm struggling to concentrate..all I can concentrate is on Rosa's fretful face

call out to her, something was troubling her. I could feel it through the

looking for Kaia still?" Her eyes are wide, as she takes in the red crosses on the map and notes scrawled next to

"Yes."

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Chapter 0077

think she

"Back where?"

"To her ex husband.."

""No, absolutely not."

she had been holding in...her shoulders start to relax. She has pigued my interest, my wolf is on full alert for key detail. "Why do you say that?" I lean forward in my chair, keen

turning to offer a small smile, Riley clearing

attention.

pass for now, but I know

questions out

pack members. Surely she would have

couldn't

couldn't sleep unless I asked. I didn't want to communicate through the pack bond with Rosa...I needed to see

tell me a lot more than the actual words she was

door of Riley's and Rosa's family home, their mother answering it and inviting me

Their father comes up to me and shakes my hand... offering me

place set for Riley but he will be on patrol watch for another 30

need

some privacy." Both parents exit for the