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

Chapter 0230

Kaia POV

"Alpha..." Numerous pack members scream through the mind-link and I have to push them back out to stop them hitting me all at once.

The fear of the pack members washing over me through the pack link.

"To your stations." I order back through the mind-link, as I continue to run towards the alpha house. I pass pack members who were looking to me for leadership. Their gazes watching me with uncertainty of their fate, if they go to the borders...will they come back alive. I needed more, needed more warriors. We were still rebuilding, we needed more time.

"You, you all stay and fight..." I let my alpha aura wash over the Amber Desert warriors congregated in the courtyard. They were getting ready to leave, following my initial orders.

Those orders have now changed.

"You dismissed us Alpha."

"Your Luna will be fighting, are you going to leave her to stand alone?" I roar at the Amber Desert warriors as I continue to approach them.

They were already in the cars, the engines running...minutes later and they would have been gone.

"Alpha...we..."

fight, please. I'm asking, not as your Alpha but as the sister of your Luna...the leader of the pack you have been protecting. I need as many fighters as possible." I

made a life here, broken bread with my people at the dinner table...they

need to fight for me, but they need to fight for Alora.

back at me and

as I open the front door, only to crash into

the goddess, where

had told him I needed a lone walk, but I automatically found myself at the cliff tops before I knew it. Like

have?" I look past his shoulder to Alora who is in a mind-link as she walks towards me, Ezra's hand on her elbow as he tries to

out as she cuts the mind-link. I match her growl, that border was clear...the council guards had only just stepped away... this was unbelievable. "Gather all warriors,

anywhere!" Hector seethes, his grip on

him that I choose him, that I am his. But as his hands grip onto me too possessively I want to seethe at

your hands off

be a magnet to any unmated wolf out

my pack Hector, these are my

you whether you are in the fight or not." He

"You can't be serious."

have to keep

pack would have had a chance to recover fully, have extra supplies delivered...but this isn't an ideal situation, but I would fight to the death to protect