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

Chapter 0220

Kaia POV

I didn't even know Than, yet I found myself hurt that he would use me in such a way.

"How could you do that to your mate's twin?" His eyes remain on Hector but I want him to look at me. He is thinking of the threat before him, but not all threats come from muscles.

"I didn't know you were twins." He barely mutters as Hector's arm presses against his vocal cords, making what I can hear raspy.

"You didn't think we were related?" I retort, except for a few slight differences...we were physically the same person.

"No Kaia... Can you stop.." He growls at Hector as he tries to push him off, his voice hoarse from his throat still being restricted.

"Why are you here?" I growl at Than and Orpheus, their arrival was bad timing.

Why were they also together. Just when I think Hector and I manage to jump over a hurdle, an even bigger obstacle comes in our path.

"We come in peace Hector." Orpheus walks towards me unfazed by what was happening before him, not potentially interested in breaking it up, instead walking over to me and looking at me intently.

I watch him very carefully as his body leans into mine, my eyes flash to Hector who is watching him like a predator.

At first I think he is going to smell my neck and I am readying to grab his throat when he pulls back away from me...his odd behaviour making my wolf push forward just below the surface. She was just as puzzled by the young alpha as me.

"Why are you both here...together?" My attention is on Orpheus who seems to move around Hector's office, touching things...even pulling at books in random on the book case.

"Than and I are related." He responds, his back to me.

"Hector..." I hear Than growl against Hector's relentless throat hold.

"Medea, Than's Mother is cousins with my Father..." My eyes dart to Hector, no wonder he was keen to get us out of the Red Thorn pack as quickly as possible.

So Medea must have grown up in the Red Thorn pack, no wonder Hector's Mother never stood a chance against this shifter world...I was a full werewolf yet I was still learning something new every day. What must a human have thought.

"I need to visit a pack member in the hospital, when I get back I want you both gone.." I need space, space to digest another bombshell of information...I had been married to Than.

But not because he actually wanted me, no because I looked like his mate and could be used...used for the sole purpose to harvest my organs. What a sick dickhead.

I was trying to just keep one foot in front

pack members smiled

so

on Rosa, I

I needed to remove myself from a toxic

hadn't braced myself for the reality of Rosa's true battle

expected laughter...what

me as I enter...even as her mother walks towards me, her hands reaching for mine and thanking me for taking the time to visit. It's as if Rosa's body was here...but her mind is elsewhere. "How is she?" It feels like the

for coming. She is doing a lot

I can feel through the pack bond

can I do?" I feel awful for

means the world to us. Her Father usually sits with her in the day and I do

so tired, not that she was letting on. She's the kind of mother I hope

be able to sleep knowing she would be alone..." Her eyes fight back the tears that threaten to

be with her. Please, go home...sleep, eat...I'll

She gasps,

you can.

"He's on border patrol..."

the surprise in my voice that he was included on border rota, especially at a

I think...." Her bottom lip starts to quiver as she cuts herself off before looking back at

the border safe, something like this won't happen

is not only unprotected

shake the thought out of my head, I was here

as her Mother finally caves in to my demands and places a soft kiss

making myself comfortable...settling in, when Rosa's breathing

She grits through a clenched

"Rosa?"

as straight as the bed she is lying

her words clearer. My face hovers just above hers as her lips tremble, waiting

cracked, too dry from

were just above hers when I jump back as she grips my

to me....What he took from me..." She screams, her body starting to thrash around as she tries to reach

calm her trying to soothe her increasing external torment that must be nothing compared to her internal struggles. The door abruptly opens and I feel the presence of two males