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.

us surrender, they won't give you that second chance. They will kill you where you stand and move on to the

I need you to believe what you defend...that a pack is bigger than lands, even bigger than an alpha...it's the connection you have with one another, because you have chosen one another after joining

in the comfort of being born into this pack, of knowing true belonging...that is what we fight for today. We are fighting for

know you have fought so hard already. But I needed this from you, I need you all to 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

tsnumai of warriors invading my lands. Half of them shift whilst running, my hands raising and pushing forward to unlease my own level of hell upon

snapping as we charge towards them. They won't get

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

run into the throes of war, my eyes flicker to the blond alpha...coward,

sidelines with a select few standing

wasn't determined before,

to them....they won't leave here

Alora, the Dark Phantom Alpha and Beta coming up with their own plan...that they get us both out 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,

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

my alpha block up, we are losing too many...I can't deal with the pain of their

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

pulls her backwards onto him...her wolf wheezing as he squeezes into her ribs. I don't know if it is the pack bond or the twin

both know we are