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

Chapter 0232

Kaia POV

A high pitched noise sounds from the wall of fighters, some kind of signal before they start chanting battle cries to one another.

Or to us...to intimidate us.

It was working, I look to my people...they were tired, they had fought enough for two lifetimes. They just wanted peace, they just want to live.

But surrender isn't an option, not if they want to protect their families, their friends.

They don't know my Father's sins, they don't know of the past. They just know of the Alpha that gave them a second chance, and for their sake I would keep up with the pretence.

"I haven't been the strong Alpha you deserve since my Father's passing. I've been too stuck in my own head, in trying to make sense of what had happened to me.

But, like my Father, I believe in you, I believe in the Nightshade Reformed pack.

We haven't settled here for any other reason than the lands reminded my Father of his mate's pack, of my Mother's pack.

and move on to the families back in the central pack grounds. Not one

even bigger than an alpha...it's the connection you have with one another, because you have

of knowing

dig deep and fight for your lives." I let my Alpha aura wash over the pack-link, not a threat to fight but a plea to have hope, to have faith in me. Yes we won't all survive this, but as

warriors invading my lands. Half of them shift whilst running, my hands raising and pushing forward to unlease my

thick and fast, their wolves' teeth snapping as we charge

children in the central pack, I can't leave them to the same fate as the Clear Waters pack.

flicker to the blond

was remaining on the sidelines with a select few

I wasn't determined before,

them....they won't leave here

of here no matter what. But I'm not leaving, not whilst there is a fight for my people. The lands...I don't care about...these lands mean nothing to me. It's the people, it's the people I need to protect. Wherever we are, as long as we are together...

that slip past him I take out. I want to scream at him to stop trying to protect me, but I need him to have his mind on the

up, we are losing too many...I can't deal with the pain of their passing...the pain of the pack-link snapping with each

her grey wolf, her wolf taking control. As soon as she shifts,

squeezes into her ribs. I don't know if it is the pack bond or the twin bond, but I feel her pain radiate through

we are