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

Chapter 0207

Hector POV

Samson the bastard had let me watch him carry Kaia out of the dungeons, my own mate in another male's arms.

Mine...she was mine.

I could feel my life leaving me, feel my end coming. The knife that was still wedged between my chest plate was only centimetres away from my heart..a little higher and I would have bled out ages ago. My wolf, determined for us to save our mate, kept pushing forward only for the silver chains to make him recede back.

But that wouldn't stop me, we kept trying, kept fighting against the chains until the darkness took over me.

I wasn't dead, I know that. I could smell something...something on fire.

I was in a black void, consciously aware but not, like sleeping, but also not sleeping.

I knew I wasn't dead, but I knew my mind and body had lost connection.

That's when I felt it, a surge of energy enter me...like a lightning bolt hitting at my chest. Without a second thought I held on to that energy, I knew it would give me the strength I needed to get to Kaia. What I wasn't expecting was for her eyes to be directly in front of mine as I opened mine.

"Kaia?" I murmur out just as her unconscious body lands onto my

room beneath me as I realise I am no longer in a chair but sprawled out half way 'up the steps. She had broken me free of the chains and pulled me up this high but at

sit up, I could hear

away the black smoke stain that I understand the smell in my unconscious was from the flames burning

not wasting a

up, cradling her close to my chest as I move up the dungeon steps. The flames had taken over the hallway, the exit now impassable. The stairs leading to the floors above were now our only way out. Holding my breath I push through the flames, hugging her body tightly in my arms. What

me that she would risk her life to come

into the room, a possessive growl emits from me as her scent perfumes the room...ropes with

so much

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anger at how she has been treated by her

I'll fucking kill him.

I wrap the rope covered in wolfsbane back around

the buzzing of the mate bond between us, feel the undeniable ache to protect her, to love her to keep her

her lifeless body out of the window, I swallow the pain my mouth wants to growl out from the wolsbane as

in to the pain, not until she is safely

kisses on my back from the top of the stairs. We were

of time.

make me surge forward, no, not until she is on the