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

Kaia POV

Thank the goddess for Jude, because without him, I truly believe we would be dead. It was him that managed to calm Hector down enough for the soldiers to take me away in their vehicle.

I could feel Hector's angry aura trying to suffocate the air around us, even until I entered the back of the council van. Jude followed the vehicle almost touching the bumper as I was in transit. "Say nothing Kaia, I'll find out who has done this. I'll get you out." Hector whispers in my ear as I exit the vehicle and was being led into an office building within the city.

A council soldier pushes Hector aside, a tremendous growl threatening around me until my pointed look was able to calm Hector down.

We didn't know what was going on just yet, let's not cause a war just yet.

I was walked into a building that looks nothing like a prison, it was a glassed towerblock more in keeping with a human office design, the last place you would expect a shifter council to be based.

Entering a lift, a soldier chooses a floor button and catches me watching him, his eyes narrowing at my calmness.

Were they used to people screaming...they wouldn't get any screams out of me. I would happily cooperate...for now.

I am taken directly into some kind of board room where a group of men already sit at a higher level on a built stage.

Not one face I recognise.

Was this the werewolf council, were these the men that kept the shifter community hidden from humans yet thriving in the shadows.

A male smiles at me before his eyes dart to the door, a chuckle escaping him. The commotion Hector makes as he demands entry into the room can be heard by all inside.

"For goddess sake let him in." The male on the council orders at a guard standing by a door, a different door to the one I was led through. He opens the door only for Hector to barge in, his aura already threatening to eat up the entire room. "What is the meaning of this?"

"Alpha Hector, you are granted permission to watch but I must demand that you sit down and be quiet." A male sitting in the middle stands up and orders at him.

I have to bite down my tongue to stop my own growl from escaping me at the way this male talks to Hector.

How dare he. Not once have they explained what is going on.

"You must understand that I have only recently been kidnapped, my mate and I are curious as to why I am here." My own anger is starting to rise up within me. This can't be coincidence, not after Alpha Marc got away. "If someone could just explain the reason why I am here..."

please?" The one in the middle hoots like an owl as

""Kaia Glace."

have

Reformed pack and Luna of

"Birth place?"

got to do

refrain from interrupting." The middle council member slams his fist on the long rectangular desk that he is sharing.

from what I've been

"What you've been told?"

five males staring back at me. Why are they all males and

to be the one in charge, or

""Excuse me?"

voice growls out, earning a tut from the row of figures in

her voice entering my head as she is

not sure, just stay with

you do that, just stay with

mind-link with Alora would have forced my eyes to glaze over because as soon as I cut it off, find a cup has

is positioned on, all eyes on the room now looking at the cup before

sister to remain you will need to consume

is it?" I

temporarily pause the ability to

I use

so you can't check

"Another?"

the Nightshade Reformed pack...she has just

don't want me to use the mind-link, then just say. I'm

but is

will need to leave." The leading

need to