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

Chapter 0255

~Josie~

My eyes were locked in a hypnotic state of rapture. They were pulling me towards him, like gravity and I could sense my body wanting to lean forward. To seek out that unknown sensation. Wanting more. It took all my mental capacity to look away.

"Where were you?" Jace, the more jovial of my two brothers, pulls my head under his arm trying to hold me in a head lock. But my moves are unbeaten for a reason. I spin myself last minute, trapping his legs within mine and pushing him to the ground. His legs trapped within mine's tight hold.

"Nice!" Jaxon nods in approval, Jace growling playfully on the floor.

"Wouldn't mess with Josie, Jace. She's unbeaten in combat for a reason." Dad proudly chuckles from the table, my eyes briefly flickering to the guest again, his eyes having not moved off me.

That pull tries to suck me under again. My eyes dart down to his chest, I can't see the most part of his body as he is sitting but judging by his broad chest, he was tall and muscular. His biceps were tight under his grey top, the material straining without his muscle even being flexed.

the length of me. But I see no sign in his eyes of what he is thinking...maybe he is questioning my Dad's claim of being unbeaten in combat. He wouldn't be the first male to underestimate my

hold his again, suddenly it feels very warm in here, suffocatingly hot. Whoever he was, he had a deep dark aura to match

that." Jace mutters as I offer him a hand to help pull him up off the

fighter." Mum

Jace stands up preparing to

inherited from her. That was also mine and Jaxon's queue to sit at

George's. they are those dark brown eyes again. He makes no attempt to look away, in fact even whilst looking at me...his forehead creases, his frown lines appearing. He must be quite a few years older, he held himself with more confidence

were you...last night?" Jace asks again, a smirk upon his face as his eyes dart to George. My brother's weren't huge fans of George, they

me." I shrug in

party?" George chides, as his hands

to make me look like a bitch for ditching him when he didn't even tell me he

had