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

Chapter 0199 Kala POV

These bodies...skeletons had been here for some time, years even. Were they the remains of the pack members that were killed in the attack that I was supposed to have escaped when I was 16.

My wolf was stirring, if that was the case these were our people. My parent's pack...my Mother's pack. How could they be so coldly slain.

"Hector....these bodies look as if they have been here for a while. Do you think they are from the attack that my Father made me flee from?" I whisper, it felt inappropriate to speak at a normal volume around this mass burial...not even a burial.

"They could be. But if the attackers didn't remain and take on the pack, why didn't Beckett return to burry his people, and more importantly to claim back your land?" Hector was right, I could feel the unease from my wolf, something smelled off.

"I want to give them a proper burial, they deserve a proper burial." They had been so coldly left, not given the burial for the moon goddess...who could do such a thing.

"They do, but not now. If we start disturbing them it might bring unwanted attention our way. We haven't come across anyone yet...let's keep it that way." Hector whispers into my ear, my emotions were all over the place but his gentle caress on my cheek help to ground be back to my centre.

His grip around my waist was super tight, the tightest I think it has ever been.

Stepping carefully over the fallen, we move towards what we assume is the pack house.

My family home.

The grounds have no unpleasant smell of death, that scent left years ago, replaced by the floral perfume of overgrown greenery and wild flowers. Nature had taken back its control on these lands and she was thriving,

The house is like any other Alpha house, bigger than most buildings in the pack to differentiate between the Alpha family and the pack members. It had cute white but now stained and rusty french panel shutters outside of every window, a tall archway outside the front door that had now overgrown with roses. I have to in fact pull back the stems...cutting my finger on a few thorns.

and cutting at the

me towards him, placing my fingers to his lips and sucking out the thorns

devious glare to them, the mate bond coming to life as I feel his intentions. My cheeks blush under his

back behind his outstretched arm as he turns the knob on

to jump

+25 BONUS

Chapter 0190

wall, the place looks spotless. Except for a few cobwebs that show the

home,

echo against the wooden floor as I walk in...testing my

But again no luck.

on the wall of a male with black sleek hair and a teenage female with sunkissed skin and long flowing

It was more of a rhetorical question, I knew it was me..but as I looked into the man's eyes that stood behind me with his hand on my

the photos Alora had shown

stripe in his hair

the limp Alora told me he had suffered with. This

I had

hand gently touches my shoulder as I remain transfixed on the large photograph.

on, we didn't want