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.

trying to just keep

walked towards the hospital to visit Rosa, pack members smiled as they passed...wishing me good day as their

had so many

I wanted to check on Rosa, I wanted

the office, I needed to remove myself

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

expected brightness, I expected laughter...what greeted me was sombreness,

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 worse question to ask, because the answer is already before me. But yet it

you for coming. She is doing a lot

better? I swallow down my words because here is her mother, a pack member of mine now, that I can feel through the pack bond is beyond exhausted...waiting with hope that her daughter, her darling girl, will get better.

I do?" I feel awful for not

us. Her Father usually sits with her in the day and I do the night, but he was just

last night and now?" She must be so tired, not that she was letting on.

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

her. Please, go home...sleep, eat...I'll stay until

I couldn't possibly." She gasps, her fingers going

can.

"He's on border patrol..."

hide the surprise in my voice that he was included

it, keep himself busy. I think...." Her bottom lip starts to quiver as she cuts herself off

the border safe, something like this won't happen

only unprotected borders that can harbour danger...sometimes the danger can come from

out of my head, I was here

to my demands and places a soft kiss on her daughter's head

chair, making myself comfortable...settling in, when Rosa's breathing changes. Almost like an acknowledgement that she knows I was here.

me..." She grits through a

"Rosa?"

is rigid, as straight as the bed she is lying

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

dry

just above hers

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

trying to soothe her increasing external torment that must be nothing compared to her internal struggles. The door abruptly opens and