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

Hector POV

I could see the hurt in her eyes and I want to take the pain from her. Want to burn in hell for an eternity if it means she felt no pain, that she was safe.

I thought in not telling her, I was keeping her safe, but I've allowed ourselves, our mate bond, to be attacked by others.

A mistake I won't make again.

"I should have told you, but I thought in not telling you, I was keeping you protected. Keeping you safe. Protecting you from the past."

"I can't believe this...everything is so..." Her confusion was clear on her face, if I could not already feel it through our bond. Our bond had been growing stronger since the Red Thorn pack. I could feel she was close to finally accepting, that pull to claim her was increasingly difficult to deny. "Fucked up?" I finish her sentence.

"So I did kill him...I must have found out that he killed my mother." Her eyes hold a sadness, she was questioning herself...questioning the foundations of the person she is, the person I have completely fallen in love with.

My love for her was universal, unconditional and nothing I had ever felt before for anyone.

For anyone, no matter what I might have thought as a younger person...this love I have with Kaia...this is what the Moon Goddess had planned for me.

I don't respond to her, not even when she turns to look up at me.

What can I say.

To me she was innocent, she was the purest of souls...so for her to take his life. It must have been for something so unthinkable, so sickening...that it forced her to take action.

She looks away, biting down on her lower

don't." I let

you..." She scoffs

"What?"

want to be with

I wouldn't let her question our mate bond, question what the moon goddess has gifted

bend my height, making sure my eyes are aligned with

worse, you don't think I haven't killed? I am an

there's killing your own family." She

was the safest she'll ever be here within our pack, with

She was their Luna, even from when she first arrived. They took to her, they fell in love with her

She sighs out, trying to push me away. I won't let her put a block up between us, not after

you don't get to walk

el.p

room but whatever you did, you did because you had to. Because he posed a threat to the

"To Alora?"

to him..shit... didn't mean it like that. I mean, she hadn't lived with him, hadn't known him, Kaja She didn't love him, not like you did. She could see through his façade."

"What about Than?"

low rumbling growl escapes from

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