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

Chapter 0229

Kaia POV

My heat was satisfied enough for the rest of the journey back to the Nightshade Reformed pack, but I wasn't done...I was still craving more. Still needed more, but I knew what was paramount. Firstly, I needed to get to the cliff tops, I needed to clear my head.

As we enter the pack grounds I knew that I needed to finally take control of my pack.

Be the Alpha my pack members deserve, the alpha that will guide them and protect them...even if that means from the council.

I needed all traces of the werewolf council off my lands.

It was also time for the Amber Desert warriors to go home, I was grateful for their support and held no bad feelings against the warriors, they had stepped up when their alpha hadn't. They had provided protection to my people and helped Alora when needed.

If their Alpha was anyone but Than, I would offer them a transfer...give them an opportunity to try another pack, a pack that would appreciate their hard work and dedication but I've had enough of the connection with the Amber Desert pack. We had no need to liaise with one another going forward. The quicker they left, the better.

I wonder whether Hector would offer them a place with him, he was their true Alpha after all...but it wasn't my place to say, and I think Hector wants a clean break just as much as me.

at the waters below me, having now seen the Clear Waters pack...I can see why

just the landscape here at the

connected to the mother I

were starting to shoot inside my lower abdomen again, a clear signal that I needed to be back with Hector, that my heat hadn't

the mate bond between Hector and I, to the point that denying it caused me severe physical

acceptance, he didn't turn me away, he didn't use it for his own

kind of mate

I take the word of a man I had just met, the word of a monster. Who tried to steal my lands

not only was I putting myself in danger, but him also. The image is his lifeless body on the dungeon stairs floods

keeping

strong, yet incomplete buzz that tempted me with every touch, every kiss...if I had

been patient, supportive and yes, he has kept things from me such as my marriage to Than...but I can see what he did it now. He

in the mate bond, make this choice for myself as

Hector for a reason, his strength will become mine, and vice

needed to do. I needed to take the leap, I needed to be all in...because standing on the sidelines wasn't doing either of us any justice. It wasn't letting

heart already, now my body....my soul